Monthly Archives: February 2020

NO CHANGE IN PARLIAMENT MARCH ON 12-03-2020 CALLED BY AIBDPA ON PENSION REVISION AND OTHER DEMANDS

29 Saturday Feb 2020

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NO CHANGE IN PARLIAMENT MARCH ON 12-03-2020.
CHQ is getting calls from many comrades ,asking whether the Parliament March will be postponed in the wake of riotous situation prevailed in certain parts of Delhi State. Now the situation has almost returned to normalcy . So we will go ahead with our decision for the Parliament March on 12-03-2020. In this connection CHQ calls upon the Circle and District Secretaries to mobilize maximum comrades for the Parliament March to make it a historic success.

Kindly bring the banners of the respective Circle and District Branches and maximum number of flags to make the Parliament March impressive and colourful.

Special care should be taken that all the participants reach Eastern Court by 0930 AM on 12-03-2020 as the Parliament March will start at 10 AM. Those want to come in metro may get down at Janpath Station and get out through gate No.4.

Comrades, CHQ is happy to have very encouraging and enthusiastic response to the 4 phased agitational programme and no doubt it will boost our morale and confidence to serve the pensioners more vigourously.

CHQ is getting calls from many comrades ,asking whether the Parliament March will be postponed in the wake of riotous situation prevailed in certain parts of Delhi State. Now the situation has almost returned to normalcy . So we will go ahead with our decision for the Parliament March on 12-03-2020. In this connection CHQ calls upon the Circle and District Secretaries to mobilize maximum comrades for the Parliament March to make it a historic success.

Kindly bring the banners of the respective Circle and District Branches and maximum number of flags to make the Parliament March impressive and colourful.

Special care should be taken that all the participants reach Eastern Court by 0930 AM on 12-03-2020 as the Parliament March will start at 10 AM. Those want to come in metro may get down at Janpath Station and get out through gate No.4.

Comrades, CHQ is happy to have very encouraging and enthusiastic response to the 4 phased agitational programme and no doubt it will boost our morale and confidence to serve the pensioners more vigourously. ( AIBDPA Website)

HURUN GLOBAL RICH LIST 2020.

29 Saturday Feb 2020

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HURUN GLOBAL RICH LIST 2020.
There are 2,816 billionaires across the world according to the Global Rich List released by Hurun. 346 billionaires were added in a single year of 2019 and India added 34 people to the billionaires list making a total of 138. Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian figured on 9th in the Global list with a net worth of $67 billion.

First rank is retained by Jeff Bezos of Amazon with Net worth $140 billion, followed by Bernard Arnault of LVMH with Net worth $107 billion and Bill Gates of Microsoft with a Net worth of $106 billion.

The net result of richest people amazing more wealth is that gap between the poor and rich widened alarmingly. (AIBDPA Website)

BSNL adds more customers than Jio in December, 2019.

26 Wednesday Feb 2020

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Ever since entering into the telecom market in September, 2016, Reliance Jio has been adding the maximum number of customers every month. However, in December, 2019, BSNL has beaten Reliance Jio. BSNL has added 4,27,089 customers in December, 2019, while Reliance Jio has added only 82,000 new customers. Vodafone has lost a whopping 35 lakh of it’s existing customers and Airtel has lost 11,000 customers, during the same period. This is the impact of all the private companies raising their tariff by 40% in December, 2019. BSNL has not raised it’s tariffs.

[Date : 26 – Feb – 2020 BSNLEU Website]

Communist Manifesto completes 172 years.

22 Saturday Feb 2020

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Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with assistance of Friedrich Engels, has completed 172 years on 21st February 2020. It was originally published on 21st February 1848 as the manifesto of the Communist party as its title clearly mentions.
The Communist Manifesto has inspired many nations and people all these years. It is one of the books maximum copies published in many languages and sold, probably second only to Bible. It still inspires people to fight for a better world.

Hunger Strike on 24th February called by AUAB

22 Saturday Feb 2020

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CHQ had already given a call to join the twin programme of agitation, called by AUAB, Lunch hour Demonstration on 11-02-2020 and Hunger Strike on 24-02-2020. The first program was successfully conducted throughout the country with participation of pensioners also.

The second agitation, Hunger Strike is being held on 24-02-2020 and it has to made a resounding success for settlement of the following issues;

Immediate payment of salary for the months of December, 2019 & January, 2020, as well as prompt payment of salary every month.
Immediate clearance of the dues, already deducted from the salaries of employees.
Immediate launching of BSNL’s 4G service.
Immediate granting of sovereign guarantee for issuing of bonds by BSNL.
Immediate withdrawal of notices issued under FR 17 (A).
No whimsical transfer of employees, consequent to the implementation of VRS. (AIBDPA Website)

MARCH TO PARLIAMENT ON 3RD MARCH ON CONTRACT LABOUR ISSUES.

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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Secretariat meeting of BSNLCCWF held at BSNLEU, CHQ Union Office, Dada Ghosh Bhawan, New Delhi on 11th February, 2020, and reviewed the preparation of March to Corporate Office programme scheduled to be held on 3rd March, 2020.
The Central Secretariat meeting of BSNLCCWF was held on 11.02.2020 at BSNLEU, CHQ Union Office, Dada Ghosh Bhawan, New Delhi. Com. Animesh Mitra, Secretary General reported the present scenario of contractual and casual workers. He also explained ins and outs of the preparation of “March to CMD office” programme to be held on 3rd March, 2020. Thereafter, Com. P. Abhimanyu, General Secretary, BSNLEU has guided in details regarding 3rd March, 2020 programme. Com. Tapas Ghosh presided over the meeting. After threadbare discussion, the following decision will be decided.

(1) CHQ will be published the poster for the programme shortly and also put in the website. All Circle Secretaries/ District Secretaries are requested to collect the poster from website and publish your regional language.

(2) CHQ is trying to arrange the accommodation on 2nd March, 2020. All are requested to book the ticket to and fro immediately.

(3) Com. P.Abhimanyu, GS assured that BSNL Employees Union will also mobilise there members in this gathering to make the programme a grand success.

(4) BSNLCCWF will extend full support to the AUAB programme on 24th February, 2020 i.e. hunger strike at all GM/CGM offices. Circle Unions are requested to mobilise Casual and Contractual Laboures in the Hunger Strike porgramme of AUAB.

(BSNLCCWF Website)

Meet the M.P.s on Pension Revision of BSNL Pensioners.

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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Good response from all over India has received for the programme of meeting the M.P.s and submitting Memorandums on the issue of Pension Revision of BSNL Pensioners with effect from 01.01.2017 with 15% fitment.  More than 100 M.P.s have already been met by AIBDPA leaders and all M.P.s have assured to take up this genuine demand with the government. One M.P. has raised the issue in the floor of the Parliament in zero hour. A cabinet minister has written to the Finance minister on this issue. It is expected that other M.P.s will also take up the issue.

There are more M.P.s to be met. Those Circle / District secretaries of AIBDPA who are yet to meet the M.P.s are requested to meet them early and present the Memorandum.  Within the next two weeks at least the programme should be completed with intimation to General Secretary, AIBDPA, with copy of photos so that the same can be posted in FB, Whatsapp etc.

Suicide by BSNL employee due to non-payment of salary.

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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The entire BSNL fraternity is extremely sad to hear the tragic news of the suicide of Com. Ramesh Kumar Sondhiya, Asst. Telecom Technician, Jabalpur on 12th February. He was only 37 years old.  It is understood that he took the extreme step due to non-receipt of salary for the last two and half months and unable to cope up with the stress and financial difficulty. Already 8 BSNL contract workers have committed suicide due to non-receipt of wages for several months. Our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

We demand the government and BSNL to immediately pay the salaries of the employees and the wages of the contract workers. The authorities are fully responsible for these tragic deaths.

 

 

DOT ISSUES ORDER ON PROVISIONAL PENSION TO VRS RETIREES AS DEMANDED BY AIBDPA.

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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DOT ISSUES ORDER ON PROVISIONAL PENSION TO VRS RETIREES AS DEMANDED BY AIBDPA.

SENSING THE HUGE DELAY IN PROCESSING THE PENSION CASES OF 78,569 VRS RETIREES , AIBDPA TOOK UP THE ISSUE WELL IN ADVANCE WITH DOT. COMS.V A N NAMBOODIRI, ADVISOR AND K G JAYARAJ, GENERAL SECRETARY HAD MET SHRI.P K SINHA, MEMBER (FINANCE) AND DDG(ACCOUNTS) ON 16-12-2019 .THEY CONVINCED THE PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY TO DRAW PENSION TO ALL THE VRS RETIREES AND DEMANDED PROVISIONAL PENSION. A DETAILED LETTER WAS ALSO GIVEN TO THIS EFFECT. BOTH OF THEM HAD RESPONDED VERY POSITIVELY AND HAD ASSURED NECESSARRY ACTION ON THE MATTER. TODAY ORDER HAS BEEN ISSUED TO PAY PROVISIONAL PENSION @ 50% OF LAST PAY + IDA. WE EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO THE MEMBER(FINANCE) AND DDG(ACCOUNTS) FOR CONCEDING THE GENUINE DEMAND. THIS WILL GIVE GREAT RELIEF TO THE VRS RETIREES WHO ARE YET TO GET TWO MONTHS SALARY OF DECEMBER,2019 AND JANUARY,2020 AND WERE COMPELLED TO RETIRE EMPTY HANDED. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL VRS RETIREES.

.ORDER ON PROVISIONAL PENSION.

AIBDPA DEMANDS TIMELY DISBURSEMENT OF PENSION TO THE VRS RETIREES.
Coms.V A N Namboodiri, Advisor and K G Jayaraj, General Secretary met Shri P K Sinha, Member (Finance) and Shri.Amitab Sinha, DDG (Accounts), Department of Telecommunications on 16th December,2019 and had a detailed discussion on processing of pension papers and timely disbursement of pension to all the VRS retirees, numbering 78,569. The delegation pointed out that our CCA offices are not equipped with the infrastructure and staff to deal with such a huge workload which unusual and unprecedented . We are aware that some of the CCAs are utilizing the services of a few retired officials as consultants. However the facts remains that determining the pension in each case requires scrutiny of relevant records and time consuming. It is absolutely impossible to complete the process within the stipulated time.

Therefore the delegation demanded that Provisional Pension be granted to those VRS retirees whose pension could not be determined at the stipulated time frame. Member (Finance) was very positive in his approach and agreed to consider the proposal favourably. He further stated that verification of service books is the main job in this regard and about 33,000 service books have already been verified in the respective CCAs and only Tamil Nadu and Telangana Circles are lagging behind. A high level committee of officers are constituted at DoT and the progress of work is being monitored regularly. The delegation appreciated the initiative and effective measures being undertaken.

The delegation also asked about the payments of ex-gratia to the VRS retirees and the Member (Finance) was hopeful of disbursement of the the ex-gratia in two installments, first in February and the second in June,2020.

Delhi Election Results

10 Monday Feb 2020

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The results of Delhi Assembly elections will be declared tomorrow after counting the same. All post-poll reviews have given good majority to AAP led by Shri Kejriwal. But BJP top leaders are telling that they will win, when the votes are counted.

Reports have come in the newspapers that EVMs have been found being taken away by BJP workers. The % of votes were not announced even after one day of the polling. BJP leaders are very sure of winning. Delhi results are very crucial for BJP and no doubt, they will do any mischief to get elected.

Let us wait for the results.