Sometimes it is seen that unnecessary pictures and unwanted advertisements are appearing along with my blogs. Despite complaints these are appearing.  The social medias are being misutilised by vested interests. These culprits should be taken to task.

Wish you all a Happy Ugadi(Gudi Padwa), Chaitre Sukladi and Cheti Chand ! Let you and family and friends enjoy the festival!

According to Chief of Army Dalbir Singh Suhag, One Rank One Pension for army pensioners will be effective from 1April 2014. Orders are expected to be issued by April 2015, he said.
Well and Good! But what about the Central Govt. Pensioners? They have also been demanding for OROP.
The Central Govt. should immediately implement the same  for CG Pensioners also.

The BSNLCCWF has submitted a representation today to His Excellency, the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee, seeking justice for the more than one lakh casual and contract workers who are toiling for BSNL and the Nation, but are brutally exploited by not being regularised and denied of minimum wage, social security measures like EPF, ESI etc.
Let us hope that the President will understand the agony of the exploited workers and ensure justice.

The Central Government is going to get more than Rupees one lakh crore through the present sspectrum auction. A portion, say at least 10,000 crores, should be allotted to the telecom PSUs, BSNL and MTNL who are in loss mainy due to anti-PSU  policy of the Government.
Will Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communications Minister, who had stated that all help will be given for revival of BSNL and MTNL hear and act?

A 9 feet statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled at Parliament Square London. Well and Good! The British rulers can now see every day the Mahatma who defeated them through non-violence with the support of crores of people of India. Gandhiji stands near Winston Churchil who called him ‘The Half- Naked Fakir’.

According by the value of assts, BSNL is the No.10 company in the whole country, including private companies. This is stated in the Parliament by Arun Jaitley, Finance minister to a question raised in this respect.

The companies as per value of assets are given below:

REFERRED TO IN PART (a) OF THE REPLY TO RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1328 ANSWERED ON TUESDAY, THE 10th MARCH, 2015 Table : Names of top-ten companies, by value of assets, in descending order, as on 31.03.2014 S.No. Name of the Company Value of Assets (in Rs. Crore) 1 Reliance Industries Limited 3,67,583.00 2 Indian Oil Corporation Limited 2,52,413.78 3 Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited 2,25,757.39 4 Power Finance Corporation Limited 1,94,164.10 5 NTPC Limited 1,79,554.18 6 Rural Electrification Corporation Limited 1,52,852.90 7 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited 1,39,589.07 8 LIC Housing Finance Ltd 95,777.02 9 Steel Authority of India Limited 91,961.89 10 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 89,333.44 Total of top ten companies 17,88,986.76 Source : MCA21 database.

The Government should ensure that BSNL, which is one of the biggest companies with a very asset value, should be strengthened and made viable.

The Strike Notice signed by the General Secretaries of the unions and associations in BSNL has been served on CMD BSNL and Secretary, DOT with copies to Minister Communications, Minister for Labour and Employment and Chief Labour Commissioner on 12th March 2015. The 20 point demands of the Forum have been focused.
The notice was served after a well attended demonstration in front of the corporate office which was addressed by the unions/associations leaders.

There are only 40 days left for the strike. This is a ‘Do or Die’ battle. Each and every worker has to be part of this struggle for existence. Nobody can keep away.

The Branch / District level secretaries and leaders have to meet each and every worker and convince the need for active propaganda and also full participation in the strike. Yes, two days wages may be lost. But his is for getting our pay and wages continuously and being in the job. Small sacrifices will be required for bringing back BSNL in to a healthy organisation. It is our duty to revive BSNL which has given us our bread and butter for long years.

Start your preparations now. Make the government understand that we will not accept any non=sense. Take the support of the people with you; You are sure to win the battle.