Com.Mustafa, contract worker from Karnataka passed away at Delhi.

12 Sunday Nov 2017

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With extreme sorrow and pain, it is intimated that Com.Mustafa (37),  BSNL contract labour from Bidar, Karnataka,  who had come to Delhi to attend the Maha Dharna called by the central trade Unions, passed away due to heart attack at the New Delhi railway station at about 2000 hours on 11th November 2017. He was to return after participating in the Dharna.

BSNLEU and BSNLCCWF leaders at New Delhi are making all arrangements for taking the body to his native place.

We convey our deep sorrow and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, friends and comrades!

National Telecom Policy (NTP) by 2018 February – Communications Minister

11 Saturday Nov 2017

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The Press Report released by Communications ministry is given below. According to this, the Government will finalize the New Telecom Policy -2018 by February 2018. NTP (1994)and NTP (1999)have both granted increased favours to the private companies and discriminated BSNL. It is certain that the NTP -2018 will not be different, especially since all the private telcos are demanding for more and more more concessions after the entry of Reliance Jio.

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 7:
The Telecom Ministry hopes to finalise the new national telecom policy by February 2018. It is planning to seek public comments by December-end.

Addressing mediapersons here, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha also said the BharatNet project is going on at a faster pace, and firms such as Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone are ready to provide services to rural areas. Under BharatNet, the Centre plans to provide broadband connectivity to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats (GPs).

“Telecom services providers have come forward for utilising BharatNet connectivity. Airtel has shown interest in 10,000 GPs for taking 1 Gbps connectivity on lease, while Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Idea are interested in taking 100 Mbps connectivity on lease in about 30,000, 2,000 and 1,000 GPs, respectively,” Sinha said.

“The rolling out of services by TSPs in these GPs is expected to trigger the village-level ecosystem, thereby widening the extent to cover more number of GPs in near future. This will give an impetus to broadband facilities in rural India.”

Sinha said that as of November 5, optical fibre cable connectivity has been achieved in 1,03,275 GPs by laying fibre for 2,38,677 km. GPON (Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks) equipment have been installed in 85,506 GPs, and 75,082 GPs are services ready.

For asymmetrical bandwidth between blocks and GPs, the charges per annum varies from ₹700 per Mbps for up to 10Mbps to ₹200 per Mbps for 1 Gbps. However, for symmetrical bandwidth between blocks and GPs, annual charges have been prescribed as ₹1,000 per Mbps up to 10Mbps, and ₹500 per Mbps for 100 Mbps. Tariff for any intermediate bandwidth will be calculated on pro-rata basis.

Release of Book “P and T Trade Union Movement” by Com. Tapan Sen, M.P., GS CITU

11 Saturday Nov 2017

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” The P and T Trade Union Movement” written by V.A.N.Namboodiri and published by NFPE was released on 6th August 2017 by Com. Tapan Sen,M.P.., General Secretary, CITU at the All India Conference of AIPEU Class III at Bengaluru. Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General Confederation of  CG Employees and Workers, Com. R.N.Parashar, Secretary General NFPE, Com.C.C.Pillai former SG NFPE, Com.K.Rahavendran, former SG NFPE, Com.K.V.Sreedharan, former GS P.III and  other all India leaders were present. The book is having a forward by Com. A.K.Padmanabhan, Vice-President, CITU.

The book contains the history of the P and T Trade Union movement since 1900, the formation of the various unions, formation of UPTW, NFPTE as also the detailed report on the historical strikes of 1908, 1919, 1946, 1960, 1974, 1984 etc. and upto the bifurcation of the Department in to Postal and Telecom and the consequent bifurcation of NFPTE in to NFPE and NFTE.

Mighty Protest Demonstration on the anniversary of Demonetisation /Note ban

10 Friday Nov 2017

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The anger of the common people, workers, kisan and other toiling people expressed itself in the Protest Day organised on 8th November 2017, the first anniversary of the demonetisation / note ban, which created miseries and imposed serious hardships to them. 30 persons died while standing in the queue for hours for getting some money from the ATMs. The small business has seriously suffered. The GDP has gone down drastically. The people were running here and there to get a few notes for their day to day expenditure.

None of the great aims of note ban was not implemented as the note ban like confiscating black money, containing terrorism  could be achieved.

The Central Government should apologise to the people for Tuglak like action taken by the government, creating a lot of difficulties to the people.

AIBDPA Comrades participated in the Maha Dharna at Dlhi

10 Friday Nov 2017

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A large number of AIBDPA comrades from the nearby states participated in the Maha Dharna at the Parliament Street today, 10th November 2017, supporting the 12 demands raised by the 10 Central trade Unions. This was as per the call of the AIBDPA CHQ. They came from Haryana, Punjab, UP (E), U>P(West), Rajasthan and other states.  The BSNL pensioners have always stood with the fighting BSNL and other workers for their fully justified demands. It was only a few days back that thousands of BSNL DOT Pensioners participated in the Dharna organised by NCCPA in front of megh Doot Bhawan, New Delhi.

AIBDPA comrades will be participating in the Human Chain being organised by All Unions and Associations of BSNL on 16th November demanding wage revision.

October Revolution Day Celebrations.

10 Friday Nov 2017

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World over Communist Parties celebrated the 100th anniversary of historic October revolution of 1917, resulting in the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Though USSR has collapsed, it was celebrated in a big way in Russia also. Delegates from many countries participated, including India in the celebration.

In India also, October revolution was organised in many centres.

Mahapadav in Delhi

10 Friday Nov 2017

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The three day Maha Dharna being organised on 9-11 November 2017 against the wrong policies of the government and on a 12 point Charter of Demands by the ten national trade union centres and federations of central/state government employees, PSU unions etc. has started on 9th with massive participation. Lakhs of workers with their own union flags are participating in the dharna, coming from all parts of the country. I could participate in the same on 9th instant. A brief report on the same is given below:

The thousands of workers who stormed the national capital and assembled at Parliament Street in the national capital Delhi, to participate in the first day of the three days ‘mahapadav’ on 9th November 2017 enthusiastically endorsed the call of the speakers to intensify the struggle against the anti worker, anti people and anti national policies of the BJP led government and prepare for a countrywide indefinite general strike if the government fails to concede their demands.

Workers from all over the country representing many sector – public and private, permanent employees and contract, casual workers, state and central government employees, banks, insurance, telecom, railways, defence, and the various schemes of the government of India participated in the ‘mahapadav’ on the first day.

Ashok Singh (INTUC), Gurudas Dasgupta (AITUC), HS Sidhu (HMS), Tapan Sen (CITU), Satyawan (AIUTUC), G Devarajan (TUCC), Manali (SEWA), Rajiv Dimri (AICCTU), M Shanmugam (LPF) and Ashok Ghosh (UTUC) addressed the gathering in the first session presided over by Sanjay Singh (INTUC), Ramendra Kumar (AITUC), Raja Sridhar (HMS), Hemalata (CITU), RK Sharma (AIUTUC), Naren Chatterjee (TUCC), Sonia (SEWA), Santosh Rai (AICCTU), Subbaraman (LPF) and Shatrujit Singh (UTUC).

Leaders of the federations spoke in the second part of the first session. It was most significant that the leaders of the two major national federations of the railway employees – Shiv Gopal Mishra, general secretary of All India Railwaysmen’s Federation and Raghavaiagh, general secretary of National Federation of Indian Railwaymen – have announced that they would join the indefinite strike whenever the joint trade union platform gave the call. Leaders of several other all Industrial federations including Venkatachalam, general secretary of All India Bank Employees’ Association, Subhash Lamba, additional general secretary of All India State Government Employees’ Association and secretary of Electricity Employees’ Federation of India, KK Divakaran, general secretary of All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation, C Sreekumar, general secretary of All India Defence Employees’ Federation, Jagdeesh Sreemali, VS Dahiya, GR Shiv Shankar, Ravi Sen, Peelimuthu, Kalyan Sengupta, also joined them in endorsing the call addressed the huge gathering and announced they would join the indefinite country wide general strike whenever the joint trade union platform took the decision. Thampan Thomas (HMS), Vijay Pal Singh (AIUTUC), Anil Sharma (TUCC), Sonia (SEWA), Mahendra Parida (AICCTU), Natarajan (LPF) and Thomas Joseph (UTUC) also addressed

Gratuity for casual labours

10 Friday Nov 2017

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Gratuity issue for the casual labours —Corporate Office issued another quarries to the circles.
Corporate Office issued another reminder to collect the number of casual labours who have expired or left the dept after formation of BSNL. Though most of the circles where casual labours are recorded in big number had sent the figure long days back. But the management is not so serious to settle the issue. They are passing the time without any logic. The govt rule is very clear that any labour who is in 5 years continuous service in any establishment is eligible to get the benefit of Gratuity.

BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation has taken up the issue of Gratuity for the casual and contract labours with the BSNL Management. BSNL Management has also taken up the issue in the board meeting. BSNL employees union has also taken up the issue in the 35th National Council meeting. Perhaps the next NC meeting will be held on 13th of this month. That’s why they have asked the circles about the latest information. In the last occasion when we met Dir.(HR) and made a request to settle the gratuity issue without further delay. Hope, this time we will get some new information to settle the gratuity issue. (Courtesy: bsnlccwf.com )

Illiteracy a fertile ground for exploiters

05 Sunday Nov 2017

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Illiteracy is a fertile ground for exploitation. The lakh of enthusiasm by the central governments, under both BJP and Congress, for a literate nation has close connection with exploitation.