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Forum meeting on 25th June 2014

25 Wednesday Jun 2014

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Meeting of the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations held on 25th June 2014.
A meeting of the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations of Non-Executives and Executives was held on 25th June 2014 at the Local Council Room, NTR, New Delhi at 16.30 hours. Com. Islam Ahmed, President, NFTE, presided.
Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Convener, Forum, welcomed all the participants and briefed the house about the developments after the last meeting. After detailed discussion, the following decisions were taken:
1. Revival of BSNL: The Forum had submitted a Memorandum on the subject to the Communications Minister last month with a request for a meeting for presenting our issues. So far, no invitation has been received. A reminder has been sent today requesting for an early meeting. Efforts should be made in this connection.
2. Pension issues to be presented before the VII Central Pay Commission: Convener briefed about the Draft Memorandum prepared by the Central Pensioners Organisations, in which the issues of the BSNL Pensioners (absorbed from DOT) are to be included. The Convener was entrusted to attend to the matter.
3. 78.2% IDA merger for Pensioners: The issue is to be vigorously pursued at DOT level for early orders.

V.A.N.Namboodiri New Delhi
Convener, Forum 24th June 2014

Forum Reminder to Communications Minister for meeting

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.

Forum will meet on 25th June on Revival of BSNL

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.

Appoint CMD, Director (Finance ) of BSNL immediately

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.

Meeting with Kerala Comrades

20 Friday Jun 2014

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The occasion of the release of the book of Com. P.V.Chandrasekharan, “P and T Trade Union movement in Kerala” at Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram yesterday, 19th June 2014, was an unexpected opportunity for me to meet many of the veteran leaders of the movement in Kerala, including those who have worked with me while in Kerala.
In the meeting Com.C.C.Pillai, the former Secretary General of NFPE, who was also Chairman of the Confederation of CG Employees was present. He was in CHQ Delhi for about 10 years and later as CITU Working Committee member. He is now at Kollam with his family and fully engaged with trade union movement and also politics. He is an active leader of the CPI(M) in the District. We had close connection both at Thiruvananthapuram when we were both Circle Secretaries of E.III and R.III unions respectively and also at New Delhi. We could not get much time to discuss issues, but at least could meet and greet each other. His wife, both his sons Ajoy and Bijoy were all part of the union activities at Delhi.
Another senior comrade I could meet was Com. P.Balakrishnan (or PB 2 as he is called familiarly), who was the Circle Secretary of P.III Union and also Secretary of NFPE. I was meeting him after a long time and exchanged pleasantries.
Com.K.Arjunan, former Circle secretary, T.IV, Union was there as usual in every important TU function at Thiruvananthapuram. Now he is a leader of the AIBDPA, the organisation of the DOT-BSNL Pensioners, and fully engaged with the same. We were circle secretaries of the unions at the same period. we talked about the past and the present activities.
There were also a large number of other former and present leaders and activists of the P and T Unions. Some of them like Coms. G.Sasidharan Asari, K.Leelamma, R.R.Verma etc. were closely connected with the union work and are activists of AIBDPA now. There were many comrades who are the present office-bearers of NFPE and BSNLEU and active workers whom it will be difficult to name all.
Of course, the All India leaders of NFPE and BSNLEU like Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General NFPE, R.Muralidharan Nair, AGS, BSNLEU, K.Mohanan, CS Kerala were all parts of the organisers. And Com. P.V.Chandrasekharan, who wrote the book was of course, there. All of had discussion together about the current tasks in the union front.
I have only mentioned a few comrades. There were many others like Com. A. Velayudhan Nair, who is now a well known Advocate,with whom I had been closely connected and were present in the meeting.
Yes, the occasion of the release of the book by Com.PVC was an excellent opportunity for me to meet all of these comrades.
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Book on “P and T Trade Union Movement in Kerala” released

19 Thursday Jun 2014

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To day, 19th June 2014, was a proud movement for the Posts and Telegraph Trade Union movement in Kerala. Hundreds of central, state, public sector employees assembled in the Press Club, Trivandrum for the release of the book ” P and T Trade Union Movement in Kerala” written by Com. P.V. Chandrasekharan, senior leader of the movement and Circle Secretary / President of the AITEU class III / BSNL Employees union from 1982 to 2005.

The meeting was presided over by Com. Anathalavattam Anandan, President, CITU, Kerala. Com. V.K.Joseph, General Manager, Chintha Publishers, which published the book welcomed all. Com. Pinarayi Vijayan, PBM and State Secretary of CPI(M), released the book, by handing over a copy of the book to Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNL Employees Union. In his speech, Com.Pinarayi focussed the growth of the P and Movement and the glorious struggles that have taken place. He congratulated Com. PVC for the effort he has taken to write the history of the movement.
Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri thanked the organisers for inviting him to this august meeting. He spoke in detail about the important struggles of the P and T workers, the growth of the movement in Kerala etc. He also congratulated Com. PVC for writing the book. Com. M.Krishnan, Secretary General NFPE introducing the book to the audience focussed on some of the important issues detailed in the book. Com.Sivkumar (FSETO – State Govt. Employees organisation) also spoke.
Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan, the author of the book, thanked all the participants and mentioned how he started writing the book and the help received from all, including senior leaders. Com.K.Mohan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU proposed vote of thanks.

The book is priced Rs. 190/-. A large number of copies were sold at the conference place itself.

SBI to recruit 7200 employees

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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It is stated by the SBI Chairman that about 7200 employees will be recruited this financial year, considering the fact that about 8,100 employees are due to retire. Good news!

What about BSNL? About 10,000 to 15,000 are retiring every year. But almost no recruitment at all!

New Recruits are a must. Even in all private companies, whether telecom or banks, they have started recruitment in right earnest. But BSNL is still sleeping. It seems that the BSNL management is not worried about the efficiency and better service.

Communications Minister for Revival of BSNL, MTNL

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.

BSNL Management should hang its head in shame for cheating the workers.

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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The BSNL Management has released on 16-06-2014 the agreement between the Staff Side and the Official Side signed on 31-01-2013 on the change of designation of RM and TM. Accordingly, the Regular Mazdoor designation will be changed in to Telecom Assistant and the Telecom Mechanic designation will be changed to Telecom Technician. While there was no stipulation that this agreement will be implemented only after settlement on the change of designation of Sr.TOA and TTA, such a clause is also arbitrarily written as an after thought below the signatures.

It is more than one and half years since the agreement was signed. But the management did not even release the agreement. It is the same management which continuously changed the designations of the ITS officers and in some cases that of executives at their will and pleasure. But when it is a question of non-executives, it is only delay and neglect. The Management should hang its head in shame at its neglect of its own workforce.

BSNL staff strength reduced by more than one lakh.

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.