The DOT has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI ) to reconsider its recommendations to cancel the licenses of those companies who did not fulfil the licence obligations like rolling out the network etc. TRAI had earlier recommended cancellation of 69 licences of 5 copmanies for failure to roll out the net work.

The UPA II government has come to the rescue of the private operators as always. The cancellation of licences would have been a lesson to the private operators for violating the licence conditions. But NO! The government is fully on the side of the private companies even if they violate the lawas and rules blatantly. Hence this out of way support to them.

From the day the elections results have come out with big victory for the Trinamool Congress, its goons along with Maoists have been attacking the supporters and workers of the Left Parties and their trade unions.Many trade union offices have been ransacked and captured by the Trinamool goondas and workers beaten up. Dozens of cadres of Left parties have been murdered. People who support the Left are threatened and compelled to leave their homes.
The attack has started on the BSNLEU offices also. The workers are resisting these onslaughts. The entire democratic movements have to strongly oppose the goonda tactics of Trinamool and Maoist atrocities and demand stringent actions to stop the same.

After the state assembly elections, the UPA II government has started quick action to reform the labour laws in the country. It is reported that about 43 central labour laws are going to be examined and amended or modified. The industry captains have been continuously pressurising the government to modify labour laws to suit their requirements in the neo-liberalisation area. They are not satisfied with the government instructions banning trade union functioning in the Special Economic Zones. They want the trade union rights to be curbed every where. They want the right for hire and fire also. In short, the industry wants to take away even the minimum rights that have been won by the workers through sustained struggles. Another demand of the industrialists are to increase the working hours to 12 hours.
The Government has appointed a Working Group headed by Shri Prabhat Chaturvedi, Labour Secretary, to examine and repeal the laws which are not necessary and which are to be modified etc. in the new situation of neo-liberalisation. A few trade union representatives are also included. But it is well known from the past experience that the voices of the TU leaders were never favourably considered by such committees.
The Central Trade Unions are fully aware of the situation. One of the main demands of the Central Trade Unions in their joint agitations is that the anti-worker policy of the government should be changed.