Black Money Declaration – Only by Small Fish

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Finance minister Arun Jaitely has proudly announced that 64,285 persons have declared their black money coming to Rs. 65,250 crore. The government will get Income Tax @ 45% of the amount coming to Rs. 29,362 crore. The name of the declarants will not be disclosed. Well and fine!

But certain questions are there. Instead of confiscating the entire black money, why the government is allowing it to be made white money by taking 45% tax only?

From the number of persons and the amount declared, it comes to an average of Rs. one crore or so for a person. This means that the declaration has come from the small fish only. Those big fish having hundreds or thousands of crores of black money have not declared at all. In that respect, the declaration process is a failure. What action the government is going to take against the big fish?

Whether it is NPA, Black Money, Corruption, Cheating, it is only the small fish which are caught in the net. The big fish, the big corporates, super rich, who have contributed much to the election funds etc. will never be caught. They will continue with their big mansions in In India and outside, numerous foreign cars and yachts, planes and helicopters and five star hotels and black money kept safe in the foreign havens.

What Dr. B.R.Ambedkar stated at the time of adoption of Constitution is relevant even today: Constitution has only provided equal vote for all; but there is no equality provided in income, education, job or any other thing.

 

Hold National Council Meeting of BSNL without further delay

03 Monday Oct 2016

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The VII Membership Verification of Non-executive unions in BSNL was conducted on 10th May 2016 and results announced with BSNLEU as the Main Recognised Union and NFTE as the second recognised union.

It is almost five long months, but the management is yet to notify the formation of the National Council. BSNLEU has already given its nominations. (4 seats are kept vacant for its allies). Despite the nominations, BSNL Management has not formed the Council. This is completely unacceptable. Meetings are to be held once in three months. Already the period for one meeting is over.

Management should form the National Council immediately and start discussion. The employees have got a lot of issues which require urgent attention.

Meeting with Director(HR) and GM(Estt.) BSNL on casual contract labour issues.

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Presidnt BSNLCCWF met Smt. Sujata Ray, Director (HR) BSNL on 3rd October 2016 and discussed issues of casual and contract workers including payment of bonus, Implementation of gratuity to casual workers, wages for the casual labour on the basis of government decision on VII CPC recommendations etc. Com.Namboodiri met Smt. Madhu Arora, GM (Estt.) also and discussed the same issues. Both of them assured that favourable action is being taken for settling the issues. With regard to the pay of casual labour, the Remuneration Committee is looking in to the matter. The gratuity issue will be put in the next board meeting, the date for which is yet to be fixed. It could not be discussed in the meeting held on 28th September.

Govt. should give spectrum free to BSNL for providing 4G Services

03 Monday Oct 2016

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BSNL is a PSU converted from the Department of Telecommunications. It has been assured of all assistance at the time of formation.
But what happened later is that all the assurances and assistance were stopped; BSNL reserve funds were confiscated by government on one plea or another; private companies were favoured in all respects – it is a case of giving priority to the private companies.

This attitude of government should change. We demand that the government should financially assist BSNL by at least by Rs. 10,000 crore from the proceeds of spectrum auction It should also allot spectrum free to BSNL .to enable it to provide 4G services to its customers. As a special case, it should waive the licence fee of BSNL.
The Forum of BSNL Unions / Associations  should raise these demands with the government.

Meeting with CMD BSNL on casual contract Labour issues

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri President BSNLCCWF met Shri Anupam Shrivastava CMD BSNL  on 3rd October 2016 and discussed the following issues:
1. Bonus to Casual and Contract workers – Com.Namboodiri demanded that on the basis of the government orders both the casual and contract workers are eligible for Bonus in 2014-15. BSNL  has approved bonus for regular employees. Bonus should be paid at the earliest. A letter was also handed over in this respect.
2. It was demanded that wages as per VII CPC govt. decisions ie. Rs.18,000 be paid to the casual Labour.
3. The decision on gratuity to Casual Labour though approved by Management is pending decision by BSNL Board. It may be expedited. Gratuity for contract Labour also be given.
CMD assured that all the above issues will be favourably considered and decisions taken.

Spectrum Auction to get at least Rs.5.6 lakh crore

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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The auction for spectrum proposed today is expected to get at least Rs. 5.6 lakh crore for the Government. It may be more also.

We demand that the government should allot at least Rs. 10,000 crore to BSNL and a similar amount to MTNL for modernisation and purchase of equipment.  The BSNL and MTNL Managements as also the unions and associations should take up the issue with the government. It is the duty of the government to assist these  two telecom PSUs to pass over the present financial crisis and restore its past glory. Simply issuing statements that Government will assist BSNL / MTNL is not sufficient. Action should follow assurances.

EPFO will be Aadhar Based service

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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Central Provident Fund Commissioner Shri V.P.Joy has stated that all the 4 crore EPF subscribers will be linked with Aadhar by April 2007. Already 1.5 crore accounts are connected and the proposal is to connect the balance 2.5 crore accounts.

The workers who are the account holders should be educated in the new method of operation without delay. (Courtesy: ET)

BSNL and MTNL to provide Wi-Fi in 100 Tourist centres.

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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According to the Tourism Secretary Shri Vinod Zutshi, BSNL and MTNL will be engaged for providing Wi-Fi in about 100 tourist spots in India, including many heritage sites. The sites will be selected within six months and the Tourism Ministry will bear the operational expenses for the first three years, he said.

Let it not be like many assurances given by the government at the time of formation of BSNL, which were withdrawn later.  (Courtesy: ET)

Best Wishes and Welcome to the officials retired today

30 Friday Sep 2016

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Hundreds of BSNL workers have retired from service today after meritorious service of more than thirty years or more. My Best Wishes and Greetings to all these comrades!

AIBDPA, the militant organisation of the BSNL and DOT Pensioners, welcomes all these retirees and request them to become life members of the organisation. Let us work together for a better future for the Pensioners!

BSNL completes 16 years excellent service to the people! Congratulations to all!

30 Friday Sep 2016

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the telecom PSU, has completed 16 years of committed service to the people of this country.

It was on 1st October 2000 that BSNL was formed by separating the service portion from the Department of Telecom. It was against the wish of the employees, but leaders of the three federations agreed for the same on certain assurances from the government.

The first 6-7 years saw the continued growth of BSNL surpassing the private telecom companies, one after another, despite the fact that the latter were granted licence to provide mobile services more than 6 years earlier.The revenue increased up to Rs.40,000 crore, the profit more than Rs.10,000 crore and many new connections increasing every month. This was not to the liking of the private companies and corporates as also the government. The government stopped procurement of equipments by BSNL to provide connections for which there was huge demand, took away all the funds of BSNL on one pretext or another and provided all assistance to the private companies. BSNL did not collapse completely only due to the committed workforce which through sustained struggles and hard work  kept BSNL alive and growing.

After four years of loss, BSNL has got operational profit in 2014-15 which increased in 2015-16 to Rs. 3,000 crore. Still the company is in loss due to the depreciation of about Rs.3,000 crore. The programmes like ‘Customer Delight Month”, ‘Service With A Smile’ etc. initiated by the BSNLEU and Forum and co-ordinated by BSNL Management as also special packets like ‘free night service’  has gradually made the company better and will be profitable by 2018.

But the government continues its anti-PSU policy. On the basis of the report of the Niti-Ayog, government is moving for the strategic sale of BSNL and MTNL. The BJP government wants to close/sell all the PSUs to repay and satisfy the corporates who supported them and donated in the elections.

But the workers will never allow the government to implement its black agenda. 2nd September 2016 strike has been a strict warning to the government.

The number of employees have been reduced since formation of BSNL from  3,50,000 to 2,10,000 due to non-recruiting of staff in the large number of vacancies resulted by retirement.

BSNL Employees Union, which has been the recognised union  from 2004 onwards has taken initiative to organise the executive and non-executive unions under the JAC/ Joint Forum / Forum and fought many battles to keep BSNL alive and to strengthen it. Unfortunately, the Forum is divided now, with NFTE forming another Forum. Separate agitations are being organised for the same demands. Top leaders of all the unions have to discuss and come together as earlier to fight for the revival of BSNL .

when the BSNL and workers celebrate the 16th anniversary of the the telecom PSU, they are faced with many challenges. It is only through the united struggles of the workers and continuous vigil that BSNL can be brought back to its past glory. Let  all the workers and the management dedicate themselves to this noble task. UNITY FOR STRUGGLE, STRUGGLE FOR UNITY AND STRUGGLE AND UNITY FOR PROGRESS!

On this 16th anniversary of the formation of BSNL, we convey our Warm Greetings to all! Let us continue our struggle for better service to the people and safeguarding the interests of the BSNL workers, Pensioners and contract workers, who are the backbone of the company!