BSNLCCWF extends full support to the programme of Satyagraha by All Unions and Associations of BSNL. It will start from 30th and will be continue upto 3rd February, 2018. A resolution was adopted in the CEC meeting of BSNLCCWF at Raipur in which the CCWF called upon the casual contract workers to mobilise active support to the regular staff in the satyagraha and Work According to Rule programme. 3rd PRC, protest against tower company and no VRS are the main demands of the 2 lakh Executives and Non-Executives in BSNL. Modi govt. has also taken a negative stand to settle the genuine demands of the workers. So we will be also with the regular staff agitational programme.(Courtesy: BSNLCCWF website)

It was on 30th January 1948, that Nathuram Godse, the RSS fanatic, shot Mahatmaji while the latter was going to the prayer ground. The martyrdom has completed 70 long years, but still the Indians remember Gandhiji, the Father of the Nation, and the great leadership he has given in the struggle for independence.

Our Respectful Homage to the memory of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi!

Republic Day Greetings to all friends, Comrades and well wishers!

CPI(M) Central Committee member and Chairman of Tripura’s ruling Left Front Khagen Das died of a massive heart attack early today in Kolkata, family and party sources said.
He was 79 and is survived by his wife and two daughters.
The former state minister and parliamentarian, who was in Kolkata to attend the party’s Central Committee meeting, died at Tripura Bhavan at around 3.30 a m.
CPI(M) announced that the party’s flag would remain half mast today and tomorrow and all party programmes in Tripura were suspended for the two days to mourn his death.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri, Politburo member Prakash Karat and other party leaders paid floral tribute to the mortal remains of Das in Kolkata.
Das was elected as an MLA in 1978 and 1983 from Majlishpur constituency in Tripura.
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1998-2002 and in 2002 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from West Tripura constituency and repeatedly won from the constituency till 2014.

Red Salute to Com. Khagen Das!

Either the BJP government has gone mad or it has forgotten the people who elected it.  As per the recommendation of the NITI Ayog (better call it ANITI Ayog) the government is moving to privatise PSUs, one after another, whether profitable or not. It is acting as per the orders of the corporate houses.

The latest is the decision to sell Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), which is a Mini Ratna PSU and has been profitable all these years since its formation in 1976. It is functioning in a crucial sector – ‘To provide integrated dredging and related marine services for promoting the national and international maritime trade, beach nourishment, reclamation, inland dredging, environmental protection and to become a global player in the field of dredging.’

Instead of making it a global player, Modi government is on the move to sell it at a paltry sum of Rs.1,400 crores. The assets of the DCI alone will come to more than Rs. 5,000 crore with its many dredgers and other equipment. Kochi Port has been its beneficiary since the charges of the DCI are very less compared to the private companies in the dredging  sector. There are hundreds of workers engaged in the DCI and they along with their unions are completely opposed to privatisation. Many agitations have already taken place.  A massive march to the head office was organised on 10th January at Kochi. Despite this opposition, government is on move to implement its sinister plan.

We fully support the agitation of the workers and demand the Central government to backtrack from the move to privatise this valuable PSU.