The strike is for achieving wage revision, Pension revision, superannuation benefits for BSNL recruiters, against anti-union orders of the management etc.

Request to all employees to participate and make it successful!

Today I  have received Birth Day Greetings and Best Wishes from many Comrades, friends and well wishers through e-mail/SMS/whatsApp etc. Yes,  my real birthday is 24th July 1938 ( official BD 12-06-1938) and my 80th Birthday falls on this 24th. I do not celebrate the birthdays and I am at Delhi today, away from my family.

I convey my heartfelt thanks and gratitude for all those who sent me their wishes. I will try to live up to their  expectations in my service to the working class and the underprivileged.

Roads are made for the convenient journey for both vehicles and pedestrians. But the situation is that both are in danger  especially in cities.

One of the reasons is that the roads are not wide enough for the increased traffic. Secondly, cars are parked sometimes on both sides of the Road.

The pedestrians are in great danger of being run over by vehicles in their mad rush to overtake others. 

It will be lakhs of people being killed in accidents every year. The governments and the experts should ways and means to stop this loss of precious lives.

The CEC Meeting of BSNLCCWF started  today at Meerut with flag hoisting of the Union red flag by Com.V.A.N Namboodiri. Com.Naresh Lal, Convener, Reception Committee welcomed. Homage was paid to martyrs. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President presided. Com. Animesh Mitra, Secretary General presented the report and Com. Tapas Banerjee, the accounts. Com. Upender Singh Teotia addressed.

Discussion on the report is going on. The meeting will continue tomorrow.

Cheating the government of its rightful dues has become the rule for private Telecom companies. There is no surprise in this since the private entry in Telecom itself was full of corruption and bribery.

The latest in this series is the report of CAG that the topmost 6 private telcos have cheated government of Rs. 12,229 crores by understating their revenues. 

Privatisation has become synonymous with corruption, bribery and cheating.

A deep pocket is always advantageous in a competative market. This is what favours Reliance Jio. It is aggressively making new offers with the intention of finishing other Telecom players.

It has offered free Voice for life, unlimited SMS, half a GB of data a day for a small charge etc. The JioPhone also will have a PM Narendra Modi application embedded embedded.

Of course, Reliance JIO is the company which published advertisement with Modi photo.

Money and political power together can violate any law and tradition without any punishment. This is the hard reality in our country.

I am now staying at K.G.Bose Bhawan, New Delhi for a few days. This building was purchased by BSNLEU and inaugurated on 22nd March 2012, foundation anniversary of BSNLEU  and functioning as a centre for stay for the comrades coming from outside, on prior intimation. Officebearers of BBSNLEU, while in Delhi, also stay here. 

The building was purchased as per decision of Thiruvananthapuram All India Conference 2010 and after collecting donation and utilising the available FDs. BSNLEU members are to be congratulated for the extreme support given through donation and otherwise.

The hall in the auditorium is named after senior leader Com. S.R.Nayak, former Circle Secretary M.P.

I was waiting at Mumbai airport to catch connecting flight to Delhi. I had already completed security check and was in the departure Hall. The flight was delayed and I went to a cafe and asked for coffee. The cost was Rs.230. When I mentioned it is too costly, he advised me to go to the food court upstairs.There I got coffee for Rs.110. In Delhi, Mumbai airports, which are privatised, it is difficult to get coffee for less than one rupee. But in Chennai, Kolkata, Kozhikode etc., which are airport authority owned, you get the same for Rs. 40 to 60.

Govt. wants to privatise all profitable airports for the benefit of the corporates. Only the loss making will be managed by Airport Authority of India.

Profit for private, loss for government, harassment for the passenger!

Yesterday night reached Delhi. Though I was to reach by 06.00 p.m., the flight was delayed about two hours due to bad weather. I will be at Delhi till 27th July. In between, I have to attend the BSNLCCWF CEC at Meerut, convention at Rohtak, Pune and if practicable at Bikanir in addition at Delhi. Hope to meet our comrades at Delhi. Staying at KG Bose Bhawan.

The workers at the bottom are fighting for getting a minimum wage of at least  Rs.18,000. The govt has accepted only Rs.10,000. But even the same is not implemented in many states/ industries. 

But what about those at the top. In the central govt. the top salary has been increased to  Rs.2.5 lakes. In the private sector the salary seems to have no upper limit for top executives.

The pay of Mahendra CEO C.P.Gurnami is Rs.150.71 crore for financial year 2017. For two Executive directors in Reliance Industries it is 80.76 crores each. The salary of many top executives are not known.

The difference is salaries is  increasing, whether it is Central Government, State govt, Public sector or private sector.

The rich becomes richer, the poor the poorer. We have to fight against this gross discrimination.