ONAM GREETINGS TO ALL COMRADES. FRIENDS AND WELL WISHERS!

My Best Wishes and Greetings to all on the 73rd Independence Day!

Assam Circle Branch has consented to host the next Central Executive Committee meeting and accordingly they have decided, in consultation with CHQ, to hold the CEC at Guwahati on 24th and 25th November, 2019.

The CEC will start at 10AM on 24th November and concude by 5PM on 25-11-2019. All the CHQ office bearers and circle secretaries are requested to book their to and fro tickets well in advance to ensure their full participation.

The details will be intimated in due course.

Memorandum submitted to the CMD BSNL – BSNLCCWF Discussed the matter with CLC New Delhi on 17th July.

We have successfully conducted the Dharna programme on 16th July, 2019 at Corporate Office as well as throughout the country. After the Dharna programme we had submitted the memorandum to the CMD and urged upon him for the payment of pending wages of the contract labourers. It is learnt that the department is trying to clear a portion of pending wages of the contract workers by taking bank loan at the end of this month.

On 17th July, 2019 Secretary General, CCWF, Com. Animesh Mitra, met Chief Labour Commissioner, Sri Rajen Varma and apprised him of the latest position about the non-payment of the wages to the contract workers for 6 months and retrenchment of these labourers and as a whole the situation persisting in BSNL. A memorandum was also submitted to him on this day. He said that as per the notice served to BSNL in regard to the strike on December, 2017 the Astt. labour Commissioner, New Delhi had intervened and series of discussions took place with the officers of BSNL. But it is unfortunate that the department has ignored to the directives of the Labour Commissioner. Under this circumstance the Secretary General asked the favour of the Chief Labour Commissioner for intervening on the issue. The Hon’ble CLC assured the leadership to do the needful (BSNLCCWF website)

The issues connected with the BSNL are raised in the Parliament by many M.P.s. Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assures of Revival Plans, but nothing is done. Despite assurance regarding allotment of 4 G Spectrum, which is most important, no action has been taken. Delay is denial. The govt is waiting for all the private telcos to catch maximum subscribers before granting  spectrum to BSNL.

Further. whenever the name of BSNL is mentioned some adjective like cash strapped / loss making / incipient / ailing etc. are added to show that there is no future to the company. It is the same with many media. An impression is being tried to be created that BSNL is not going to last and it is better to shift to some other company. The debt of the other companies are many times more than BSNL, but neither government, nor the media call them, sick/incipient/loss making/ ailing etc. It can be seen that this is a campaign by the government and the private companies to show BSNL in a bad light.

What is the truth? Despite government not allotting 4G Spectrum, not allowing to take loans, not allowing to monetise its buildings and lands, reduced staff from its earlier position, bad propaganda, BSNL is giving lakhs of fresh connections, increasing its market share and trying to give a better service.

What is required by the government is to immediately agree to the very reasonable demands raised by the unions and associations of BSNL, including immediate allotment of 4G and 5G spectrums, allow the company to take loans, drop the proposals of VRS and Retrenchment (which are the initial steps for privatisation), honour the commitments given at the time of formation of BSNL in 2000 by the Vajpayee Government and ensure that BSNL is strengthened.

It is not the workers or the customers who are responsible for the weakening of BSNL. It is the same workers, that too with a number of 3.5 lakhs, who made the company profitable for many years till the govt. blocked its development by stopping purchasing of 5 crore / 9 crore mobile connections and other such anti-BSNL actions.

Let the government not kill its own child BSNL, but help it restore to its former glory!

Some of our comrades have informed me that some fake posts in my name is being circulated, stating that BSNL will not survive, BSNL has no chance and other rubbish things. Kindly ignore these fake posts. Probably the authors of these fake posts are worried about the massive propaganda we are making against the policy of the government, the danger of privatisation and closure etc. It means that our posts are hitting the target.