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International Day of Older Persons on 1st October

30 Saturday Sep 2017

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1st October every year is observed as International Day of the Older Persons since 1991 as per the decision of United Nations. This year also it is being observed with rallies, meetings etc.

AIBDPA, AIPRPA and NCCPA has called for observing the same.

Observe the day with massive participation.

 

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Human Wall to save the Kozhikode Railway Station

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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Thousands of people participated in the Human Wall round the Kozhikode Railway Station protesting against the move of the Railways to privatise the Kozhikode Station. The programme was organised under the auspices of the Railway Station Protection Committee. The participants took Oath to stop the privatisation of the station. Further programmes are being chalked out in continuation.

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1st October – International Pensioners Day

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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1st October is the International Pensioners’ Day. Observe the same with meetings, rallies, demonstrations etc. The theme of this years’ International Day is: “Stepping in to the Future: Tapping of the talents, contributions and participation of older persons in the society. Promoting and strengthening the participation of older persons in various aspects of social, cultural, economic and civic and political life.”

Pensioners are part of the society. They have served the people well. Ensure their health, safety and social relations!

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Tapan Sen M.P. demands the Government not to close Govt. Presses

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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Com. Tapan Sen M.P. and General Secretary of CITU has written to the central government to stop the move to close 11 Government Presses out of a total of 16. These presses have been most useful to the government in printing important documents and government publications for along time. These can be well modernised as demanded by Tapan Sen. This will reduce the dependency on the private presses.

It is well understood that the closure of government presses is part of the Capitalist Corporate Policy, which the Modi government is aggressively continuing. ‘Every Sector for the Corportates, All Profits to the Corporates’ has become the slogan of the government.

Telecom, Postal, Banks, Railways, Airlines, Airports – the list for privatisation is increasing every day! Sustained struggle is the only way to defend the PSUs.

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How Option I / III will be implemented for BSNL Pensioners’?

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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Option I and III recommended by the VII Central Pay Commission has slight differences between them, but it is somewhat similar to the One Rank One Pension Scheme partly implemented for the defence pensioners. In simple language, the pension of the present pensioners will be revised and refixed on the basis of the pay of the official in the same post/grade who is retiring now and getting pension on the basis of the present pay scale. This decision is to remove/reduce the discrimination between the present pensioner and the earlier pensioner who have retired from the same post/grade.

In such a case, how Option I/ III can be fully implemented for BSNL pensioners, if pay revision is not implemented for BSNL employees? The cadres in government and BSNL are different and pay scales are different. How comparison can be made between BSNL pension and government pay scale?

The only solution is pension revision of BSNL retirees on the basis of the III PRC with 15% fitment. Give support and solidarity to the struggle of the employees for a good wage settlement, which will benefit the pensioners in implementing Option I / III.

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BJP leaders express unhappiness over economy downtrail

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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It is not only the opposition leaders, but many leaders of the BJP including their former Finance Minister Yeshwant Sinha have expressed their unhappiness over the economic down trail. The fact is that despite many assurances and announcement of many new programmes, neither employment has increased nor GDP. The demonetisation and introduction of GST has hit the people hard. There is unhappiness in the BJP cadres also.

The Modi impact is losing ground. Rajasthan BJP government had to concede all the demands of the Kisans after their mighty demonstration and protest rallies with participation of lakhs of people. The anti-worker new labour codes being introduced has angered even BMS, whose leaders have issued statements of protest. The university students are protesting against the curbs on campus freedom. The trade unions are organising Maha Dharna in Delhi for three days w.e.f. 6th November with lakhs of workers’ participation.

Yes! The change has started. The change shall continue. When assurances are not implemented and the miseries and sufferings are increasing, there will be strong reaction from the people.

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Pension Revision of BSNL Retirees should be expedited

27 Wednesday Sep 2017

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The pension revision of the BSNL retirees is being delayed, as the wage revision of BSNL employees are being delayed. BSNL employees has already started serious agitation in the matter. The affordability cause of the III Pay Revision Committee recommendations is the reason. However, the BSNL management has written to DOT for approving 15% fitment and fixation of pay.

The case of BSNL pensioners is different. The affordability clause is not acceptable, since the payment is being made by the central government. As such, AIBDPA and National Co-ordinating Committee of Pensioners Association (NCCPA) have demanded that the government should immediately order pension revision with 15% fitment in the IDA pension as recommended by III PRC.

Some unions have demanded for pension revision for BSNL retirees on the basis of VII CPC recommendations. VII CPC has recommended CDA Pension revision. All along BSNL retirees have been on IDA pension and any change in the same will result in many complications, anomalies and confusions dragging the pension revision for years and years. Further, implementation of Option I / III will be almost impossible since there is no similar scales of pay and also similar jobs in the Government as that of in the BSNL. In such a situation, the BSNL retirees will lose the Option I/III fixation. There is every chance that the increased pension received by the BSNL retirees may be compromised in the CDA scale.

AIBDPA and NCCPA are demanding for increasing the pension revision and it is on the basis of the two pension revisions already implemented which has benefited the BSNL retirees more than the Government retirees.
We hope that all pensioners associations will come together for fighting and getting justice to the BSNL retirees.

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Arun Jaitely, Finance Minister made a mess of economy – Yashwant Sinha, former Finance Minister and senior leader BJP

27 Wednesday Sep 2017

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This is the statement issued by Yeswant Sinha, former Cabinet Minister and senior leader BJP:

” I shall be failing in my national duty if I did not speak up even now against the mess the finance minister has made of the economy. I am also convinced that what I am going to say reflects the sentiments of a large number of people in the BJP and elsewhere who are not speaking up out of fear.
Arun Jaitley is considered to be the best and the brightest in this government. It was a foregone conclusion before the 2014 elections that he would be the finance minister in the new government. His losing his Lok Sabha election from Amritsar was not allowed to come in the way of this appointment. One may recall that in similar circumstances Atal Bihari Vajpayee had refused to appoint Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan, two of his closest colleagues in the party, to his cabinet in 1998. His indispensability was established further when the prime minister rewarded him not only by giving him the finance ministry including the department of disinvestment, but also the ministries of defence and corporate affairs. Four ministries in one go out of which he still retains three. I have handled the ministry of finance and know how much hard work there is in that ministry alone. Finance ministry, in the best of times, calls for the undivided attention of its boss if the job has to be properly done. In challenging times it becomes more than a 24/7 job. Naturally, even a superman like Jaitley could not do justice to the task.
Jaitley was, to begin with, a lucky finance minister, luckier than any in the post-liberalisation era. Depressed global crude oil prices placed at his disposal lakhs of crores of rupees. This unprecedented bonanza was waiting to be used imaginatively. The legacy problems like stalled projects and bank NPAs were no doubt there and should have been managed better like the crude oil bonanza. But the oil bonanza has been wasted and the legacy problems have not only been allowed to persist, they have become worse.
So, what is the picture of the Indian economy today? Private investment has shrunk as never before in two decades, industrial production has all but collapsed, agriculture is in distress, construction industry, a big employer of the work force, is in the doldrums, the rest of the service sector is also in the slow lane, exports have dwindled, sector after sector of the economy is in distress, demonetisation has proved to be an unmitigated economic disaster, a badly conceived and poorly implemented GST has played havoc with businesses and sunk many of them and countless millions have lost their jobs with hardly any new opportunities coming the way of the new entrants to the labour market. For quarter after quarter, the growth rate of the economy has been declining until it reached the low of 5.7 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal, the lowest in three years. The spokespersons of the government say that demonetisation is not responsible for this deceleration. They are right. The deceleration had started much earlier. Demonetisation only added fuel to fire.
And please note that the methodology for calculation of the GDP was changed by the present government in 2015 as a result of which the growth rate recorded earlier increased statistically by over 200 basis points on an annual basis. So, according to the old method of calculation, the growth rate of 5.7 per cent is actually 3.7 per cent or less.
Even the SBI, the largest public sector bank of the country, has stated with unusual frankness that the slowdown is not transient or “technical”, it is here to stay and the slowdown in demand has only aggravated the situation. It has openly contradicted what the BJP president said just a few days ago that the slowdown in the last quarter was on account of “technical” reasons and will be corrected soon. According to the SBI chairman, the telecom sector is the latest entrant to the long list of stressed sectors.
The reasons for this decline are not far to seek nor have they appeared suddenly. They have been allowed to accumulate over time to cause the present crisis. It was not difficult to anticipate them and take counter measures to deal with them. But that called for devoting time to the task, serious application of mind, understanding of the issues and then working out a game plan to tackle them. It was perhaps too much to expect from a person who was carrying the heavy burden of so many extra responsibilities. The results are there for all of us to see.
The prime minister is worried. A meeting convened by the prime minister with the finance minister and his officials appears to have been postponed indefinitely. The finance minister has promised a package to revive growth. We are all waiting with bated breath for this package. It has not come so far. The only new thing is the reconstituted Economic Advisory Council of the prime minister. Like the five Pandavas they are expected to win the new Mahabharat war for us.
The performance of the monsoon this year has not been flattering. This will further intensify rural distress. The farmers have received “massive” loan waivers from some state governments varying from one paise to a few rupees in some cases. Forty leading companies of the country are already facing bankruptcy proceedings. Many more are likely to follow suit. The SME sector is suffering from an unprecedented existential crisis. The input tax credit demand under the GST is a whopping Rs 65,000 crore against a collection of Rs 95,000 crore. The government has asked the income tax department to chase those who have made large claims. Cash flow problems have already arisen for many companies specially in the SME sector. But this is the style of functioning of the finance ministry now. We protested against raid raj when we were in opposition. Today it has become the order of the day. Post demonetisation, the income tax department has been charged with the responsibility of investigating lakhs of cases involving the fate of millions of people. The Enforcement Directorate and the CBI also have their plates full. Instilling fear in the minds of the people is the name of the new game.
Economies are destroyed more easily than they are built. It took almost four years of painstaking and hard work in the late nineties and early 2000 to revive a sagging economy we had inherited in 1998. Nobody has a magic wand to revive the economy overnight. Steps taken now will take their own time to produce results. So, a revival by the time of the next Lok Sabha election appears highly unlikely. A hard landing appears inevitable. Bluff and bluster is fine for the hustings, it evaporates in the face of reality.
The prime minister claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters. His finance minister is working over-time to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters.

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Government has to take care of its Pensioners.

26 Tuesday Sep 2017

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BSNL absorbed DOT Pensioners were recruited by DOT/Government and their pension is to be paid by Government. Pension revision is also the responsibility of the government.

The III PRC report is accepted by BSNL Management and is awaiting approval of BSNL Board. But in the case of Pensioners, the government can directly make the payment with 15% fitment from 01-01-2017.

Do not delay payment to Pensioners!

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All Unions should fight together against Formation of Tower Company and for Wage Revision

26 Tuesday Sep 2017

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The meeting of all the unions / associations in BSNL held today to discuss about struggles to be organised against starting of Subsidiary Tower Company  and demanding Wage Revision is in the correct step. United struggles are most important in achieving both these crucial demands.

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