A Joint Convention of SWAS programme and VII Membership Verification was held at Woodlands Auditorium Udupi on 4th April 2016. Though being a branch, Udupi comrades under the leadership of Com. Chitralekha, Branch Secretary, organised more than 200 workers. Com. Ammanna, Branch president, presided. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron and founder General Secretary, BSNLEU, inaugurated the Convention. Coms. C.K.Gundanna, Circle Secretary, Karnataka Circle, B.P.Narayana, Circle President, M.C.Balakrishna, AGS, Venugopalan Nambiar, Circle Vice-President, Muddayya, Circle Asst. Secretary, B.Krishna, Dt.President, Tanvir Pasha, H>D>Pai, Balakrishna Shetty, Dist. Secretary, CITU and other leaders addressed. A good umber of AIBDPA comrades and women comrades participated. Com. Namboodiri in his inaugural speech called upon the workers to make both the programmes successful. Udupi has a good majority of BSNLEU members. All the leaders and senior pensioners was honoured by the house.