06 Monday Jun 2016
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Mohammed Ali, the greatest sportsman and heavy weight Champion is no more. He passed away at the age of 74 at Phoenix, US. He fought not only in the ring but also outside for great causes. He refused to fight for the US in its attack against Vietnam and was imprisoned by the US imperialism. He was a spokesperson for the suppressed and the downtrodden.
Respectful homage to Mohammed Ali!
06 Monday Jun 2016
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The Finance Minster Arun Jaitely has stated that he is expecting early govt. decision on the merger of the Associated Banks with the State bank of India.The Associate banks are State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Mysore and State Bank of Hyderabad. Mahila Bank also will be merged.
SBI first merged State Bank of Saurashtra with itself in 2008. Two years later, State Bank of Indore was merged.
SBI has maintained since then that it would merge others as well but none of its moves fructified due to lack of capital (which was pegged at least Rs 2,000 crore each for per bank) and stiff opposition from employee unions.
The Bank Employees have strongly protested the merger move since it will neither improve the services nor improve the finance of the SBI.
05 Sunday Jun 2016
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The Finance Ministry has issued orders fixing the GPF interest rate at 8.1%. The rate will be effective from 1st April to 30th June 2016. This will be applicable to the following GPF Accounts:
1. The General Provident Fund (Central Services)2. The Contributory Provident Fund (India)
3. The All India Services Provident Fund
4. The State Railway Provident Fund
5. The General Provident Fund (Defence Services)
6. The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund . 7. The Indian Ordnance Factories Workmen’s Provident Fund.
8. The Indian Naval Dockyard Workmen’s Provident Fund
9. The Defence Services Officers Provident Fund
10. The Armed Forces Personnel Provident Fund
05 Sunday Jun 2016
Responding to the strong protest against move for VRS in BSNL from the Forum and the unions, the CMD BSNL Shri Anupam Shrivastava, in a statement from Pune has informed that there is no proposal at present to implement VRS in BSNL.
So far so good! The workers are being tested now and then to assess their reaction. Workers have understood the intentions of the management for VRS and they are not going to allow the same, which is against the interests of the workers and the company itself.
04 Saturday Jun 2016
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Com. Animesh Mitra, Secretary General, has informed that a meeting of BSNLCCWF CEC will be held at New Delhi on 6-7 August 2016. All CEC members are requested to immediately book tickets to and for. Notice will be issued shortly.
04 Saturday Jun 2016
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The National Joint Action Committee of CG Employees in its meeting on June 2016 has decided to go on indefinite strike from 11 July on major demands raised by it. The notice will be served on 9th June.
02 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners, Pension
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
01-June-2016 16:27 IST
Special Aadhaar Enrolment drive for Pensioners, from May 30 to June 10, 2016
Pensioners will also get opportunity to seed data for digital life certificate
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched a special enrolment drive for pensioners who are yet to enroll for Aadhaar. The drive is being conducted to enable Pensioners avail the convenience of Jeevan Pramaan, an initiative of Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare, Government of India.
Every year, pensioners need to provide a life certificate to an authorized pension disbursing agency such as a Bank, Post office etc., for receipt of pension. To get a life certificate the pensioner is required to either personally present oneself before the Pension Disbursing Agency or have the Life Certificate issued by the department/authority where they served earlier and have it delivered to the disbursing agency. This entails considerable hardship to the senior Citizens.
Jeevan Pramaan, a digital life certificate which utilises the Aadhaar identity platform, addresses this very problem by digitizing the whole process of securing a life certificate. A pensioner just needs to biometrically authenticate at the nearest centre. After successful authentication, the digital life certificate is stored in a Life Certificate Repository, which can be accessed by the Pension Disbursing Authority.
To facilitate pensioners to avail the facility of Jeevan Pramaan, which is based on Aadhaar Identity platform, UIDAI and Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare have taken initiative to carry out special enrolment drive for Pensioners through banks which are Registrars for enrolment for Aadhaar as well as Pension Disbursing Authorities.
The enrolment drive and the Aadhaar seeding camp is being run from May 30 to June 10, 2016.
“We hold special enrolment drives to help people who are yet to enrol for Aadhaar. This particular exercise has been initiated to make sure pensioners get an Aadhaar number if they still don’t have one and seed the Aadhaar details of pensioners so that they can get a Jeevan Pramaan,” said Director General & Mission Director of UIDAI, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey.
So far over 15.41 Lakh pensioners have already registered for the Aadhaar-enabled Jeevan Pramaan service.
02 Thursday Jun 2016
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The long pending approval for the India Post Payment Bank (IPPB) by the government has been issued on 1st June 2016, as announced by the Communications Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad. It will be the largest bank in the world in terms of reach with 1.54 lakh Post Offices and 650 Payment Bank Branches, he stated.
‘A Payment Bank can hold a maximum balance of Rs. one lakh per customer, can issue ATM/Debit Cards, but not Credit Cards. It can offer payment and remittance services,deal in simple financial products like mutual fund units and insurance products but can not take lending services.’
It is to be noted here that Department of Posts were denied ‘Payment Bank’ service, while private companies were allowed to do so. This was great injustice. At least at this stage, government has been compelled to approve the application of the Department of Posts for starting Payment Bank service.
02 Thursday Jun 2016
Another loss making PSU has made profit. Airport Authority of India (AAI), which was struggling hard to revive has posted an envious revenue of Rs.10,000 crore and a profit of Rs. 2,537 crores for 2015-16. This is glad news.
Despite the fact that the government has handed over four major profit-making Airports ie. Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad to private players which created major loss of revenue to AAI, it has come back with good revenue and profit in this financial year.
Hearty Congratulations to the management and workers of AAI!
01 Wednesday Jun 2016
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There is no justification for the present hike in the price of petrol and diesel, which is increased by Rs. 2.5 for petrol and Rs. 2.26 for diesel. This is the 19th hike for petrol and 16th hike for diesel within the last two years after the Modi Government took over.
The government had declared that after deregulation, the prices will come down, when the international prices come down. The international price at present for petrol is only Rs. 25.31 whereas the government has raised it to Rs.65.63 by increasing the customs/excise/taxes. This is nothing but looting the people.
Strong protest should come from the political parties, workers and the people to make the government to retract from the anti-people decision.
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