ITS officers – Do not keep your legs in two boats

06 Saturday Feb 2016

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Most of the ITS officers who are working in BSNL and MTNL have not opted for absorption in the PSU, despite many chances given to them. While the 3,50,000 executives and non-executives at the time of corporatisation in 2000 got absorbed in BSNL, only very few ITS officers got absorbed. First they were on deputation and are now on permanent deputation to BSNL, but keep their lien in Government. They take all benefits of both Government and BSNL, but their future is not connected with the future of BSNL. If BSNL improves, they also get benefit. But if it goes down, there is no loss for them. They are under the safety of government service. This is an anomolous situation.
The future of BSNL depends a lot on the leadership of the organisation. For an effective, determined, committed, sincere and inspiring leadership, they should belong to the company and not to an outside organisation.
There should be a balance between personal interest and public interest.
I am not against the ITS officers or are not underrating their capabilities. I am only stating that they should belong to BSNL and use their capabilities for the same. This is a critical situation for BSNL. Either they should belong and work for BSNL or should belong and work for Government. Keeping their legs in two boats is to nobody’s gain.

Rs. 1.10 Lakh Crore provision to implement VII CPC Recommendations

06 Saturday Feb 2016

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitely has stated that Rs.1.10 lakh crore will be provided in the Budget for implementation of the recommendations of the VII Central Pay Commission. This is including the One Rank One Pension formula implementation also.

 

CITU Condemns Govt. move to disinvest strategic profitable PSUs

05 Friday Feb 2016

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Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has strongly condemned the move of the NDA government to disinvest the globally competitive engineering giant BHEL, the profitable oil PSUs like ONGC, HPCL, BPCL,  the Defence sector PSUs like BEML, HAL etc which are already shortlisted for the strategic sale. This is tantamount to putting the country on sale, reflecting the desperate economic condition in the country, despite the high sounding claims of the government.

The CITU called upon the workers to be ready for a serious struggle against disinvestment and strategic sale of the PSUs. It has called upon its unions to organise protest at each work place and also through sending fax/ emails to Union Finance Minister and the Prime Minister demanding ‘Stop disinvestment in PSUs; No to strategic sale’.

The Inspiring All India Conference of AIBDPA held at Tirupati

05 Friday Feb 2016

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The Second Triennial All India Conference of All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA) held at Tirupati (A.P.) was an inspiring Conference with participation of more than one thousand delegates/visitor and observers. They came from all parts of the country with the determination to participate, discuss and decide on the issue of the pensioners and about strengthening the organisation to enable it to fight and achieve the demands.  The two days AIC on 2nd and 3rd February was a memorable occasion.

The Conference started on 2nd February with the hoisting of National Flag by President Com. A.K.Bhattacharjee and Red Flag of the Union by Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA. Com. A.K.Bhattacharjee, presided. The AIC was inaugurated by Com.T.K.Rengarajan, M.P.Vic-President, CITU and veteran leader of the trade union movement. Coms. P. Abhimanyu, General Secretary BSNLEU, V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA, Animesh Mitra, Secretary General BSNLCCWF, K.Raghavendran, General Secretary, AIPRPA, P.V.Chandrasekharan, Patron, AIBDPA, K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA, J.Sampath Rai, Circle Secretary BSNLEU A.P.Circle and other leaders addressed. Com. Chairman, Reception Committee welcomed all to the temple city of Tirupati for holding the Conference.

The two days conference discussed general issues as also the issues of the Pensioners and took important decisions. The AIC unanimously elected the following office-bearers for the next term:

Advisor    : Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri ( New Delhi )

Patron     : Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan (Kerala)

President                           : Com.Ananta Kr Bhattacharjee (Kolkata )

Vice Presidents                :

Com. P. Asokababu (Andhra Pradesh)

Com. Susanta Kr Ghosh (West Bengal )

Com. S.Mohandoss (Tamil Nadu )

Com.Prabhir Dutta (NE II )

Com. Supriya Mitra ( Kolkata)

Com. S.C.Shrivastava (Madhya Pradesh)

General Secretary : Com. K.G.Jayaraj (Kerala )

Asst. General Secretaries :

Com. D.Basu (CORTO,Kolkata)

Com. M.R. Das (Assam)

Com.G.G.Patil (Karnataka)

Com. K.Govindaraj (Chennai )

Treasurer    : Com.R.Aravindakshan Nair.(Kerala)

Organising Secretaries  :

Com.K.P.Sharma (Rajasthan )

Com.Swastika Dasgupta (Kolkata )

Com. K.Kaliprasad. (Tamil Nadu )

Com.Kuldeep Singh (Haryana)

Com. R.V.Singh ( UP- West )

Com. M.B.Chaniyara (Gujarat )

BSNL provided 20 lakh new connections in January 2016 – Congratulations!

05 Friday Feb 2016

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A REPORT FROM BSNL TELESERVICES IS GIVEN BELOW FOR INFORMATION

“We all are seeing the BSNL rejuvenating plans which are becoming the success stories. Yes, BSNL did it. BSNL has declared a new achievement which is, it has got 2 million gross new subscribers for BSNL Mobile in the month of Jan 2016, a new millstone for the efforts they have put in. BSNL is going like a bullet train and very aggressively with its new plans and decisions to make itself one of the best in class service provider for its sector.

Being a Public Sector enterprise, any change is a great deal. BSNL the only PSU in the telecom segment is able to push new boost among its own employees and its stake holders. BSNL strategies and adoptions of market expectations are quite dynamic. On the prima face, we thought that BSNL is trying to stand after a great surge. After a couple months it started running with its new BSNL Mobile Plans and Broadband Plans catalyzing the change in BSNL plans which were quickly accepted by large consumer base making BSNL to drive like a bullet train.

The financial year 2015 16 have given a bight scope of agility among BSNL stake holders. BSNL agenda, to make the company customer centric rather than a monotonous PSU company. To make this realized by its subscribers BSNL had implemented many plans and approach routes and bridged the gap between the subscriber and BSNL.

In this new record, BSNL Employees, Unions, Associations supports with their hard work to achieve this new mile stone, and in this new record Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan records top most growth and Assam, UP East, UP West, HP, Madhyapradesh, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu followed the record of acquiring highest volume of new mobile customers.”

Yes, BSNL is on the way to recovery by the joint efforts of the Unions/Associations and the Management. Let us continue this magnificent effort to bring BSNL to its past glory!

Telecom TU Movement (19) -One Day Sit-in/Tools Down/Pen Down Strike on 23rd January 1995

05 Friday Feb 2016

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One Day Sit-in/Tools Down/Pen Down Strike on 23rd January 1995

The Telecom workers through their massive participation in one day strike on 23rd January 1995, have shown that they are completely against the NTP – 1994 and handing over this vital sector to foreign and Indian companies. The telecom will be fragmented and handed ove on silver platter to these MNCs and Indian corporates. This has to be opposed and defeated.

E.III Union took initiative and made efforts for organizing further struggles. But the Federations were lukewarm.  E.III, T.III and Administrative unions started massive propaganda amongst the workers and the people. Massively attended dharnas were organized in all centres on 13th and 14th March 1995 successfully.

Joint Letter to Minister against Privatisation

A joint letter by the unions was submitted to the Communications Minister Sukh Ram on 28-03-1995 demanding that the proposal of the government to privatise  telecom sector should be stopped.

Oral Evidence before V CPC

The Staff Side of the National Council (19 leaders) gave evidence before the V CPC on 20th and 21st February 1995. The Confederation of CG Employees and Workers was represented by Coms.S.K.Vyas, SG Confederation, O.P.Gupta, SG NFTE, R.L.Bhattacharya, Dy SG NFPE, G.L.Dhar GS, Central Sectt. And K.K.N.Kutty, GS, Income Tax.  The demands of the employees were placed effectively before the CPC.

Massive Dharna / Human Chain against Privatisation

As per the call of  E.III, T.III and Administrative Unions massive dharna / Human Chain was organized  on 14-03-1995 at district levels against privatization of telecom, which was actively participated by thousands of workers. The reports from districts indicated that workers are angry at the privatization move of the government. (To be continued)

Massive Protests against Pension Reforms in Greece

05 Friday Feb 2016

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Greece Protest against Pension reformsMassive Protest against pension reforms that are part of Greece’s third international bailout.

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Athens, Feb 4 : Greece was hit today by a general strike against an unpopular pension overhaul that has rallied workers against the embattled government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The 24-hour labour action has deprived the country of train and ferry services and will sideline dozens of flights.

Hospitals will operate on emergency footing, gas stations will remain closed and taxis have been pulled off the streets.

Lawyers and farmers are also participating in the walkout. The general strike, the third in as many months, is directed against government plans to lower the maximum pension to 2,300 euros (USD 2,500) a month from 2,700 euros currently and introduce a new minimum guaranteed basic pension of 384 euros.

The leftist administration of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also wants to merge pension funds and increase social security contributions by both employers and staff.

The plan has been criticised by a wide array of professional classes, from lawyers and engineers to sailors and farmers.

The farmers have formed protest hubs at dozens of locations on Greece’s national highways, intermittently blocking traffic with tractors over the past two weeks.

On Tuesday the farmers blocked passage of freight trucks into Bulgaria and Turkey, causing long lines on the respective borders.

Greece must save 1.8 billion euros from state spending on pensions under a three-year bailout signed with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in July.

The Tsipras government has warned that the nation’s  pension system will soon collapse without the reform, which is expected to be put before parliament for a vote later this month.

 

20,000 pounds for a bottle of 75 years Whisky!

05 Friday Feb 2016

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It is reported in the press that a bottle of 75 years old whisky has been bought by an Indian for 20,000 pounds ( almost Rs. 10 lakh)! The bottle is half-empty, since during these long years in the oak-casket, it has lost half of the whisky as is usual, the loss being called as the ‘Angel’s Share.’ The whisky is costlier according to its number of years after manufacture. According to the Scots, Whisky is not whisky unless it is at least three years old.

On seeing this news, I remembered my visit to a Whisky company in Scotland. After showing the process of manufacture and supplying small quantity of the same, we were taken to the area where large stockpile of whisky are kept. On the huge oak-casks, the year of its manufacture is noted, some of which goes to 100 years!

Whiskey is one item, which is costlier by the years it passed by.

 

“If Democracy is slaughtered, how can the court remain silent?” SC on dismissal of Arunachal Pradesh Government

05 Friday Feb 2016

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The Supreme Court of India, while taking up the submission of some advocates that  the decisions of the governors are not open to judicial review (in connection with the dismissal of the Arunachal Pradesh government), strongly reacted by stating that it can not be a mute spectator when democracy is being slaughtered.

The observation of the apex court is most welcome. Most of the dismissals of  state governments have been based on political consideration of the ruling party at Centre. Such dismissals of electric governments are a threat to the democratic fabric of the Nation.

Budget Session of Parliament starts on 23rd February 2016

05 Friday Feb 2016

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The Budget Session of the Parliament will start on 23rd February and will continue up to 16th March 2016. After a recess it will continue again from 25th April to 17th Many. This was announced Parliamentary Affairs Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu. The Railway Budget will be presented on 25th February and General Budget on 29th.

This session is expected to be a stormy one with the various critical issues on the economy, communal tensions, Rohit Venmula issue, Pathankot attack by terrorists, formation of J and K government, dismissal of Arunachal government, National Herald case etc. etc. which may be raised.

Since the elections to the four states Kerala, T.Nadu, W. Bengal and Assam are to take place, the politicial parties will use this session to their benefit.