25 Wednesday Jun 2014
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The Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations have given a memorandum to Communications Minister on 26th June and requested for a meeting to discuss the issues of Revival of BSNL and a few other issues. So far no meeting has been held.
Today, 24th June, the Convener Forum has written another letter seeking an early meeting.
24 Tuesday Jun 2014
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The Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations will be meeting tomorrow, 25th June, at the Local Council Room, NTR, Eastern Court, New Delhi at 04.00 PM to discuss about the Revival of BSNL. The Forum has already given a detailed letter to the Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on the Revival of BSNL and has requested for a meeting to present our views. So far the meeting has not taken place.
Communications Minister had already stated that action will be taken to revive BSNL and MTNL and had a meeting with the Management of both these PSUs. The details of the discussions are not available, but it is felt that some move is there in this connection.
The Forum wants a detailed discussion with the Minister at the earliest. The Forum meeting tomorrow will review all these developments.
21 Saturday Jun 2014
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The post of Director (Finance), BSNL is vacant for the last few months after the retirement of Shri K.C.G.K.Pillai. Shri R.K.Upadhyay, present CMD BSNL is retiring on 30th June 2014. Shri Anupam Shrivastava was selected for the post. But now, it is understood, that the post will be filled up only after the new government takes a decision. In that case, the CMD post also may be vacant for some time.
NDA government assured good governance. Is this good governance keeping these important posts vacant? The Central Government should immediately fill up these posts to help BSNL to function.
18 Wednesday Jun 2014
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Communications and IT Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has stated that he would personally oversee the revival of BSNL and MTNL. He also stated: “I will undertake a provocative role in monitoring performance of these companies. I will have network operating system installed in my office which will monitor the performances of the towers in all the circles. The circles with low performances will be questioned.”
The statement of the Minister is much welcome. There has been no systematic check up for the improvement of the BSNL, MTNL services so far.
But this alone is not sufficient. There are many urgent actions to be taken on which the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations has already given a memorandum to the Minister and sought for an appointment. The Minister has not found time to meet the Forum, although he was quick to meet the private companies to get their opinions. The Communications Minister should meet the representatives of the workers, who also have got very important suggestions for the revival of BSNL and MTNL and also for improvement of services to the people. Hope the Minister will act on his promise.
17 Tuesday Jun 2014
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Every month, the number of staff in BSNL is being reduced by thousands. During the last 13 years of its existence, more than one lakh thirty thousand employees have retired with only about 30,000 recruited.
While there were about 3.5 lakh employees at the time of formation of BSNL, the present staff strength is only about 2.45 lakhs.
There is extreme necessity for new recruitment in the lowest cadres of the non-executives, where no recruitment has taken place since BSNL formation, except for regularisation of some TSM/casual labour, which also has been stopped since 2006.
Whatever the management may say, this is one of the reasons for the deterioration of the services. While the management has agreed in the National Council that fresh blood is required, no action has been taken by it so far for new recruitment in the lowest cadres. This should be done to save BSNL and for a better service to the customers.
29 Thursday May 2014
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The Forum of BSNL Unions has submitted a Memorandum to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communications Minister on the need for revival of BSNL and the role the government has to take in the matter including honouring the assurances given by the NDA government when BSNL was formed in 2000. The Memorandum is signed by the Unions/ Associations in BSNL. The Forum has also requested for a meeting to present the issues in person. The full Text of the Memorandum will be placed in the websites of the unions/associations.
29 Thursday May 2014
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The government orders in general on the payment of pension contribution in case of deputation of officials are that the institution where the official is working on deputation should pay pension contribution to the government based on the actual pay being drawn by the employee. This is commonsense and appropriate.
But in the case BSNL absorbed DOT Officials for whom the pension is paid by the government, BSNL is compelled to pay pension contribution based on the maximum of the pay scale of the official. This results in hundreds of crores of rupees extra payment by BSNL. This is complete injustice.
The Forum has demanded the government that this situation should be changed and necessary orders issued so that BSNL can pay pension contribution on the basis of the actual pay of the official, which will be a big relief to BSNL.
29 Thursday May 2014
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BSNL was formed in 2000 during NDA government. It had assured that the financial viability the new corporation will be ensured through ADS, USOF and by reimbursement of the licence fee to be paid by the BSNL to government. All these are stopped after a few years and the BSNL is in real danger. It has accumulated a loss of more than Rs. 25,000 crores during the last four years. The situation is very critical.
Now that the NDA government has come to power, it is the responsibility of the government to ensure what the earlier NDA Government has assured to the workers and the country.
The Forum of BSNL Unions and Associations has submitted a Memorandum signed by the unions/associations on the major issues face by BSNL and the policy and support required from the government to revive the ailing government company. We have also asked for a meeting to present our points of view and suggestions how to improve BSNL.
Hope the minister will call the Forum for discussion.
28 Wednesday May 2014
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” I am aware of the problems of this Department. The Telecom Department has been in the news for many of the wrong reasons and one of my first priorities will be to set things right”.
“Just like Vajpayee Government was known for building road highways, Modi Government should be known for broadband highway.”
– Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
What the Minister says is correct. What has been doing in the telecom sector was completely wrong. The UPA government tried to destroy BSNL and giving all benefits to the private companies, due to which BSNL has gone down both in revenue as well as in services. Will the new government change this scenario to revive BSNL. The Forum of BSNL Unions / Associations is trying to meet the Minister and present our priorities for a healthy BSNL and Telecom Sector.
Reviving BSNL means reviving the Telecom Sector itself.
27 Tuesday May 2014
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The Forum of BSNL Unions and Associations which met today, 27 May, at Local Council Room, NTR Delhi discussed the memorandum to be submitted to the Communications Minister. All the unions/Associations are requested to be present tomorrow, 28 May, at 1100 hours at the same place (LC Room, Delhi NTR)to sign the memorandum.
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