Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri, Advisor and Com. K. G. Jayaraj, General Secretary handed over a letter to Shri. Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Department of Telecom seeking his immediate intervention in settling the issue of 78.2% IDA merger.(The full text of the letter is already published in this website).

They met both Ms. Annie Moraes, Member ( Finance) and Shri. N.K. Yadav, Member(Services) and gave copy of the letter to Secretary, DOT. To a specific question as to why data is being collected from the BSNL when all the particulars about the BSNL pensioners are very much available with DOT, the Member (Finance) stated that no data is sought from BSNL. She also stated that the data wanted by the Department of Expenditure will be incorporated in the Cabinet note within 2 weeks and will be submitted to the cabinet directly.