24 Monday Nov 2014
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The DOT has identified 45 major cities ( with population of more than 10 lakhs) and 705 tourist spots to be provided with Wi-Fi services. The funding will be done through the USO Funds. For providing Wi-Fi to these cities, Government will free 60 GHz Spectrum Band.
24 Monday Nov 2014
The State Bank Group Banks are in the process of recruiting more than 7,600 clerical staff. Applications have already been called for by State Bank of Hyderabad ( 2,566 vacancies), State Bank of Patiala (1,541), State Bank of Travancore (1,527), State Bank of Jaipur and Bikaner ( 1,188) and State Bank of Mysore (852). The State Bank of India had already recruited about 5,500 during the last year.
Despite the introduction of new technologies, the Banks have found out that fresh blood is required to run the services and serve the customers. Hence the recruitment.
Will BSNL Management realise that it also require fresh blood for a better service? Even after 1,30,000 employees have retired, mainly from the lower cadres, during the last thirteen years, these vacancies have not been filled up. Recruitment is an urgent requirement in BSNL.
24 Monday Nov 2014
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The decision of the government to close sick PSUs has been condemned and strongly opposed by the Central Trade Unions. They have stated that there is no justification for the closure and the decision should be rescinded. They also suggested that these PSUs can be revived, if the government changes its policies.
The government earlier decided to close about 25 PSUs which are in loss, including BSNL and MTNL. In the first stage, it proposes to close PSUs, viz. HMT Watches, HMT Chinar Watches, Hindustan Cables, Hindustan Photo Films, HMT Bearings and Tungabhadra Steel Products. There are about 3,600 employees who will lose their jobs if the companies are closed.
The move of the government is only to close the PSUs, one after another to favour the corporates and private business and also to help them to increase their profits and eliminate competition from the PSUs.
The strong position taken by the Central Trade Unions should be supported by the entire trade union movement in the country. The National Protest Day on 5th December 2014 called for by the 11 Central Trade Unions should be made a gigantic protest movement by participation of crores and crores of workers from all industries, central/state government employees, PSUs etc.
We demand that the government should drop the proposal to close the PSUs; instead its should take urgent action to revive these loss making PSUs.
18 Tuesday Nov 2014
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, PSU, Telecom
Rahul Khullar, TRAI Chairman, is pressurising the government to take over 1.2 Mhz spectrum with the BSNL putting the argument that the private telecom companies require more spectrum and the spectrum taking over from BSNL can be given for auction, which will give the government about Rs. 15,000 – Rs. 20,000 crore. The present TRAI Chairman has been acting as a spokesman of the private companies, and putting the same before the government.
We strongly protest against the proposal of the TRAI Chairman suggesting vacation of spectrum by BSNL. This will only further weaken BSNL. BSNL Management should immediately react and demand the government that no spectrum could be released.
17 Monday Nov 2014
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Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Defence Minister Parikkar has met and discussed about the transfer of the spectrum with Defence to the DOT for auction and allotting of special spectrum for the Defence. However, It is reported that no agreement has been reached so far about the swapping of the spectrum.
Communications Minister stated that towers will be installed as per the present directions and if any compalint is there, it will be looked in to. ” According to DoT guidelines, if a mobile tower has 1 antenna, it should be installed at minimum distance of 20 metres from a house, in case of 2 antennas minimum distance should be 35 metres, for 4 antennas it should be 45 metres and for 6 antennas the minimum distance should be 55 metres. The guidelines say that there should be no building parallel to antenna and height of the antenna should be at least 5 metres above ground or roof top level.”
Certainly the anxiety of the people about radiation from the towers need be seriously considered.
17 Monday Nov 2014
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Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will be floating tenders for Fund Managers for managing the funds of the organisation. At present, these are being managed by asset management firms SBI, HSBC, AMC, Reliance Capital and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership. They were given the right for three years and the period will be over by 31st march 2015.
The new tender and appointment of Fund Managers will be effective from 1st April 2015 for three years. The workers prefer that their funds are entrusted with government or PSU Banks / Firms.
17 Monday Nov 2014
Posted in PSU
The nefarious plan of the UPA and NDA governments to finish off the PSUs is well known. After the NDA government has come in to power, hectic activities have been going on to privatise as much PSUs as possible to favour the corporates who have liberally donated to the BJP Election Fund.
Now the government has decided and is moving fast to privatise 6 important PSUs. They are Hindustan Photo Films, HMT Bearings, HMT Chinar Watches, Tungabhadra Steel, Hindustan Cable and the iconic HMT Watches. All these PSUs were profitable and much appreciated earlier, but the anti-PSU policy and mismanagement had made them in to loss making.
The Cabinet note for the closure has already been circulated to the various departments by the Heavy Industry Ministry, which is the nodal ministry for the PSUs. An amount of Rs.1,000 crore also may be allotted towards VRS for the employees working in these PSUs.
Unless there is strong reaction and struggle, BSNL and MTNL also will be taken in to the queue.
14 Friday Nov 2014
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Acute Shortage of Cabin Crew delays Air India Flights.
Many air travelers are complaining that the Air India flights are delayed comparing to the private company flights. The main reason seems to be the shortage of cabin crews. There is acute shortage of cabin crews. While 700 cabin crew have been retired within the last two years, nobody has been recruited. It is reported that company is thinking of fresh recruitment.
It is not different in BSNL. During the last 14 years, about 1,40,000 employees, mostly in the non-executive cadres, who are mainly dealing with fault repair, Customer Service Centre etc. have retired. But there has been no fresh recruitment in these cadres.
BSNL Management should urgently think about fresh recruitment, failing which the service will further deteriorate.
12 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in PSU
The 9 lakh and odd PSU Bank Employees went on one day strike today, 12th November 2014, completely paralyzing the bank services through out the country. The Bank workers have gone on strike demanding wage revision form 2012 onward, as per the call of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the umbrella organisation of the Bank Unions. While the unions demand 23% fixation, the Bank Managements are prepared only to give around 11%. The Unions have threatened to go on indefinite strike if the issue is not solved early.
Our Hearty Congratulations to the Bank Employees for their massive strike !
11 Tuesday Nov 2014
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The Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju has stated that both the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Pawan Hans Helecopter limited, both PSUs, will be disinvested shortly. The privatisation of Air India is also being considered.
Selling of the family silver has become the main agenda for the Nodi Government. Already the profitable airports like Delhi and Mumbai has been privatised. Aggressive plans were made by the UPA Government to privatise Chennai and Kolkata airports, but because of the general elections it was kept pending. Now the NDA government is planning to privatise not only these two airports, but many more.
The Airports Authority of India which controls the airports will be having only loss-making airports after some time. In the case of Air India, the Civil Aviation Ministers, one after another has been acting on behalf of the private airlines and against Air India to destroy it. And new minister has stated that the loss making Air India needs to be privatised.
Selling the family silver at throwaway prices ! Nothin less. Oppose and defeat these anti-national moves.
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