BSNL CCLU Convention at Kannur.

09 Tuesday May 2017

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A special Convention of Casual contract workers in BSNL was held at Kannur, Kerala, on 8th May 2017 under the auspices of Kerala BSNL CCLU. More than 100 comrades participated. Com. P.V.Rajan, District President presided. Com.V.V.Krishnan, District Secretary welcomed. The Convention was inaugurated by Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, All India President, BSNLCCWF. He explained the developments with regards to the demand of the workers, the latest order on minimum wage, VDA, issue of reguarisation etc.  Coms. K.Ashokan, District Secretary, CITU, K.Mohanan,  Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, P.Manoharan, Asst. Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Janardhanan, CWC member and other leaders addressed. It was decided to strengthen the organisation by bringing all the workers in the organisation.

Kannur is one of the strongest centre of CCLU.

Resist and Defeat the Murder of Public Sector!

07 Sunday May 2017

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Since the introduction of  neo-liberal LPG policy since 1991, the governments,  Congress or BJP, have been attacking the Public Sector. Whether it is Coal, Steel, Oil, Banks, telecom or power, the government has been after it to destroy the PSUs or hand over the same to the private corporates.

Disinvestment/ closure/ strategic sale of PSUs benefit the MNCs and the Desi corporates. Once the competition from the PSUs is over, they can loot the public like any thing. The government is dancing to the tune of these corporates and big business.

The fate of the PSUs, which have been closed or sold is known to all. Large number of workers lose their jobs, trade union rights are taken away, hire and fire become the law and the prices of the products are raised sky-high. Large areas of land, buildings and equipment are all handed over to the corporates for a song, just like in the case of ITDC Hotels, Balco, VSNL etc. The national assets are gifted to the corporate sharks.

The PSUs which strengthened the financial position of the country, gave the infrastructure for many industries, saved the country from the 2007 financial crisis  – all are being murdered one after another. The government has already decided to close or hand over about 75 PSUs in this year. PSU Banks are being merged. The RBI Dy. Governor has suggested de-nationalisation of the nationalised banks!

Next target is the Railways and Postal services. Move is already afoot.

It is time that the entire working class and the ordinary people come forward and fight this attack unitedly. It is  a question of now or never!

Resist the murder of the Public Sector! Defeat the ill-motivated pro-corporate policy of the government!

Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan honoured by Kerala Government

06 Saturday May 2017

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COM.P.V.CHANDRASEKHARAN, PATRON of AIBDPA HONOURED BY KERALA STATE GOVERNMENT.
Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan, Patron, AIBDPA has been nominated to the Kerala State Council for the Protection of Parents and Senior Citizens by the Government of Kerala.Com.P.V.C is also functioning as the Vice President of Senior Citizens Friend Welfare Association, which is one of the biggest organisations of senior citizens in Kerala. The appointment is for two years.

It is a great recognition for the selfless service of Com.PVC for the welfare activities since his retirement in 2004.

Comrades N.C.Pillai, Thomas Pothan, K.J.Chellappan and a few other comrades are also similarly nominated.

Best Wishes and Warm Greetings to all the comrades!

Clean cities – Is Kerala slipping fast?

05 Friday May 2017

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The Swatch Survekshan 2017, the cleanliness survey conducted by the Union Urban Development Ministry has announced Indore, in M.P. as the cleanest city out of survey made in 434 cities all over the country. Mysuru, which was No. 1 has been relegated to 5th position. Bhopal is No.2.

Most of the cities in  Kerala,  have gone down in ranks, including Thiruvananthapuram. The cleanest city in Kerala is Kozhikode, but it is only at 254th position. Thiruvananthapuram ranks 372. Other south Indian states including T.Nadu, A.P. etc. have performed better.

Kerala, which was considered clean and hygienic, has gone back very very far. The people of Kerala have to retrospect what has gone wrong.

CII Chief wants income tax for agricultural products and reduction of income tax for big business!

05 Friday May 2017

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The newly elected President of CII, Shobhana Kamineni has demanded that the income tax on the corporates and big business should be reduced to 25% and gradually to 18%. At the same time she wants agricultural produces to be taxed.

Similar views were expressed earlier by NITI Ayog officials, like Bibek Debroy. The intention is to reduce the tax for the corporates and tax the agricultural sector which is in real crisis now.

Corporate agenda is being implemented one after another.

Karl Marx Remembered

04 Thursday May 2017

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5th May 2017 is the 200th Birth Day of Karl Marx, the greatest philosopher and the co-author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’, which changed the world for the better. It is on the basis of Marxism that USSR, the first socialist state in the world was born.
On this day, we remember Karl Marx. Red Salute to Karl Marx!

Dharna at FM’s Office in New Delhi – Confederation Circular.

04 Thursday May 2017

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23rd MAY 2017
MASS DHARNA IN FRONT OF FINANCE MINISTER’S OFFICE, NEW DELHI

EMPLOYEES & PENSIONERS COME IN LARGE NUMBERS
AND MAKE IT A GRAND SUCCESS

HONOUR THE ASSURANCE GIVEN BY GROUP OF MINISTERS ON 30.06.2016

· Increase minimum pay and fitment formula.
· Revise allowances including HRA with effect from 01.01.2016.
· Grant option-I pension parity recommended by 7th CPC.
· Revise pension and grant dearness relief to autonomous body pensioners
· Implement positive recommendations of Kamlesh Chandra Committee on Gramin Dak Sevaks. Grant Civil Servant Status.
· Regularise all Casual, Part-Time, Contingent and Contract Workers and grant equal pay for equal work.
· Remove stringent conditions imposed for grant of MACP etc.

All affiliated organisations and COCs are once again requested to mobilise large number of employee and pensioners as per quota fixed in the last circular and make the programme a grand success.

(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
Confederation

Meeting the stalwarts of working class at Kolkata.

03 Wednesday May 2017

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I have been away to Kolkata to attend the Circle Conference of AIBDPA  Kolkata Circle as also meeting at Telecom Factory and at CTO building (W.Bengal Circle) during the period 25th to 29th April 2017. The conference and meetings were well attended and I addressed them. The latest developments were explained to the employees, pensioners and casual contract workers.

I could utilise the stay in Kolkata during this period to meet some of the veteran senior leaders of the trade union movement. Com. Sisirda, the senior most leader of P&T employees, who is 97 at present, came to the meeting in the Telecom Factory and addressed the workers. Even at this age he is active and we discussed about the latest developments. A copy of the AIBDPA  Tirupati AIC Souvenir with my article on Sisirda was handed over to him.

On 26th evening along with Coms. Saibal Sen Gupta, Circle Secretary BSNLEU and Biplab Das, Secretary Co-ordination Committee, I went and met Com. Sukomal Sen, former Secretary General All India state Government Employees Federation and a former M.P. He was not well and is under treatment at home. He was happy to meet all of us and we discussed his health problems and other issues.

On 28th April, along with Coms. Pabitra Chakraborty and Arindo Rai, Asst. Circle Secretary, BSNLEU Kolkata  Circle, I visited Com. R.L.Bhattacharjee, Patron, NCCPA at his residence which is about 30 miles away from Kolkata. He is almost bedridden and unable to move out. We had about one hour discussion on the various issues of the pensioners etc.

On 29th morning I went to the residence of late Comrade Moni Bose to meet Com. Jyotsna Bose who is  not well. She used to attend all the meetings earlier. I could meet both the families of Coms. K.G.Bose as well as Moni Bose. Com. Babu (s/o KG Bose) and family had visited Kerala last month and he was very happy that all arrangements have been made for his stay etc. by Com.K.Mohanan, CS BSNLEU and other comrades. I had lunch from there and spoke with all the family members.

Com.Ananta Bhattacharjee, President of AIBDPA and a veteran leader was present in the AIBDPA Kolkata Conference and along with Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General secretary, we could discuss some important issues.

During the stay there, I addressed the SNEA comrades, sitting on Hunger strike in Telephone Bhavan as per decision of CHQ demanding settlement of their demands.

This tour to Kolkata was successful,especially in that I could meet the senior leaders. All the circle Secretaries of BSNLEU, Coms. Animesh Mitra (WB), Saibal Sen Gupta (Kolkata), Om Prakash Singh (TF) and Adhir Kumar Sen (TS) along with Com. Biplab Das, Mihir Dasgupta, Swastika Dasgupta, Sandib Banerjee, Pijush Chakraborty, Supriyo Mitra, Arindo Rai, Amitab Chatterjee, senior leaders Comrades Dilip Das, Prabir Dutta, Gouri Haldar – all helped me in duties assigned to me. I could not meet Coms. Tapas Ghosh and Tapos Banerjee, leaders of BSNLCCWF due to their being out of station to attend meetings.

All these comrades are functioning under great strain due to the special situation in W.Bengal. My Congratulations to all of them for their great tradition and committed service to the organisation.

W.

Merger of PSU Banks in the Govt. Agenda

01 Monday May 2017

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After the merger of the Associated Banks and Mahila Bank with SBI, the government is proposing to merge the Nationalised Banks. Two or three PSU Banks are planned to be merged in to one. The Finance Ministry is reported to be in serious discussion in the matter. According to the Ministry, the 21 PSU Banks have to be reduced through merger.

In this connection, the reported statement of Dy. Governor of SBI that the Nationalised Banks should be de-nationalised, hints to the diabolic thinking of the government – Merge the PSUs and privatise!

Cut in coal import to PSUs, not for private companies.

01 Monday May 2017

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Each and every policy adopted and action taken by the Modi Government is favour of the private corporates and against the PSUs. The latest proposal in this series is about the coal imports. It is being reported that the government is proposing to cut the thermal coal imports to the coal PSUs to the zero level, on the plea to reduce the huge import bill. NTPC and similar PSUs will be seriously and adversely affected if the proposal is implemented.

But for the private coal companies, there will be no restriction. They will be free to import as much as they require.

This is just like the Govt.’s unjustified cancellation of the 4.5. crore and 9.3 crore mobile tender floated by BSNL for its expansion.