18 Friday Mar 2016
Posted in BSNLEU
I am in Kerala for membership verification campaign of unions in BSNL. Com. P.Asoka Babu and myself will tour all the SSAs in Kerala along with Circle Secretary Com.K.Mohanan and other leaders.
17 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in General
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I was going through the Ganashakti Pocket Diary. It is noted there that on this day, 17th March, in 1769, the British government started incising the hands of the expert weavers of muslin in Bengal. Bengal Muslin was very famous and the same was exported from India to many other countries. in order to destroy the industry, the British government started cutting the thumb of the weavers, so that they can not weave muslin products.
The cruelty and barbarism of capitalism has no limit. Foreign occupation has brought such miseries to the people of this country.
17 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in General
State Minister of Railways Manoj Sinha has stated in the parliament today that the Indian Railways have tied up with Slovak Republic, U.K., Japan, China, France Belgium, Russia, Czech Republic and Germany for co-operation of expertise in re-developing and modernisation of railway Stations.
17 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in Disinvestment, General
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The 32,000 odd employees of the IDBI Bank will go on a one day strike on 28th March 2016 against government move to privatise the bank. The privatisation move is part of the government’s anti-PSU policy. The government has recently started an anti-PSU Bank move.
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in General
For the first time after many years, democracy is returning in Myanmar. Htin Kyaw, a very close associate of Aung San Suu Kyi, the top leader of the National League for Democracy, who won the election with huge majority, will be the new President of the country. This is the first time that a President without a military back ground has been elected. Suu Kyi is banned from becoming President by a Constitutional amendment made by the earlier military junta.
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in CG Employees
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New Delhi: All non-entitled central government employees have been allowed to travel by air while availingLeave Travel Concession (LTC) with a condition that reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled class of train or actual expense.
The Ministry of Personnel had recently eased norms for processing claims of LTC — which allows grant of leave and ticket reimbursement to eligible central government employees to travel to their home towns and other places.
“Government employees not entitled to travel by air may travel by any airline. However, reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled class of train, transport or actual expense, whichever is less,” an order issued by the Ministry said. (Confederation News)
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
While travelling in the Mumbai- New Delhi Rajdhani yesterday, I found with pleasure that BSNL has started advertisements jointly with IRCTC (India Railways Catering Tourism Corporation). In the trays used for supplying breakfast, morning tea etc., advertisement of BSNL on “Service With A Smile” is presented.
Some of the passengers started discussion of BSNL and I also contributed my share. It was interesting that many passengers, despite its failures, were strongly supporting BSNL.
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
At present there are seven telecom factories under BSNL. They are at Alipore, Gopalpur, Kharagpur (all in Kolkata/W.Bengal), Jabalpur,Richai, Bhilai(all in M.P.) and Mumbai.
The telecom factories were earlier called P and T Workshops. They were manufacturing equipment, instruments etc. for the Telegraph, later P and T Department. There were a total of about 15,000 workers employed in these factories. Now it is reduced to less than half, due to retirement and non-recruitment. Recruitment should take place to fill up the vacancies. There is need to modernise and start production of latest equipment from these factories.
Nowthat they are under BSNL, it should be appropriate to call them as BSNL Factories, instead of Telecom Factories.
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in General
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A report by PTI on the stolen artifacts and antiques of India in foreign countries is given below:
“New York, Mar 12 Two stolen Indian statues dating back to as early as the 8th Century and valued at over USD 4,50,000 were seized in the US from premier auction house Christie’s, just days before an auction next week.
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, BSNLEU
The Joint Action Committee of BSNL Unions/Associations formed in 2005 was a new experiment to have joint programmes and actions of the total executives and non-executives for strengthening BSNL and settlement of common issues. Though name changed to Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations, it is fulfilling the responsibilities and moving forward.
In this connection a question arises. Is it not possible to have unions/associations with both executives and non-executives. In DOT, there were separate unions for Group C and Group D. In BSNL, these two are combined and there is only non-executive unions. I feel it is time to think about merger of the executive and non-executive unions and to have only such combined unions of executive and non-executives. This will help the employees as also the company.
A discourse on this issue may be fruitful. Even if not immediately, it can be a long-term target.
