One more privatisation of Air Ports! Now it is Goa Airport which is being jointly operated by the Airport Authority of India and Indian Navy. Government is proposing to hand over the Airport completely to the private. It will be the first airport in the country which will have no shares of the state government. The only consolation is that the central government will have a Golden Share and that the AAI can also participate in the global tender.
We  strongly protest against the unjustified privatisation of Goa Airport.

It is time that the BSNL  declare Saturdays as holiday for its employees. There is full justification for the same.
1. In many of the Public  and Private sector companies, two days holidays viz. on Sunday and Saturday, are given. This is on the basis that the employees should get sufficient time to be with their families and look after children. Most of the time  is taken in the day for work and journey to and fro.This is especially important for women workers.
2. Two Saturdays were holidays for office staff while part of Department of Telecom. This was taken away after formation of BSNL.
3. Saturdays are holidays for BSNL Corporate Office.
4. The working hours in the week need not be reduced for giving holiday on Saturday. The time on working days can be increased accordingly.
5. Emergent and customer services can be arranged by bringing staff  on duty on Saturdays and giving them compensatory offs.
All the above and other reasons fully justify to declare Saturdays as holidays.
The unions/ Associations are expected to take up the issue which will benefit the BSNL employees in a big way.

“Service With A Smile”(SWAS) Scheme initiated jointly  by BSNL Management and Forum of BSNL Unions and Associations has various aspects on serving the customers in a very efficient manner. One of them is the timely attention to the problems/ complaints of the customers.
For taking timely actions, the employee requires to be a time concious worker. He/She should attend duty in time,  deal the work in time and complete the same in time. This time duty conciousness has to be developed by regular practice.
Are you one of them? Congratulations! If not, you can become one by determination and practice!
We have to save BSNL, the BSNL workers and improve service. There can not be any laxity.

According to DOT, optical fibre has been connected to 36,000 gram panchayats so far. The target is to connect to 2.5 villages. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) is rolling out the project. BSNL has an important role in the same.

National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navaratna PSU in Odisha, will be investing about Rs.30,000 crore for new projects in five years. The PSU is making good profits.
It is to be remembered that the earlier NDA government tried to privatise this profit making PSU along with BALCO, but due to strong agitation by the employees as also the people of Odisha, the govt. was compelled to detract from privatisation. NALCO is contributing to many social activities and welfare measures in Odisha and the people fought against privatisation.

India celebrates its 67 th Republic Day on 26th January 2016. Our Warm Greetings to all comrades, friends and well wishers! 
We  remember the lakhs of leaders, people and especially the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for Freedom with gratitude.

Govt. will be getting about Rs. 49,000 crore from telecom sector in 2015-16, out of which, Rs. 37,000 crore is already received. There will be no further spectrum auction in this financial year.
Though govt. gets so much funds from this sector nothing is given to its telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL to tide over their financial difficulties.
We demand that at least  Rs.10,000 crore should be allotted to BSNL and MTNL.

Avalanches, typhoons, storms, floods, Sunamis have become a regular occurance in one part or other of the world causing destruction and loss of valuable lives. Yesterday it was the huge snow storm in the east coast of US, putting vast areas of New York, Washington etc. under 2-3 feet of snow and death of 19 or more persons.
Is these furies of the nature a result of its unscientific exploitation and unlimited abuse by mankind for centuries? If so, what can be done to avoid the same?

Almost every day, I am getting complaints from casual contract workers and their leaders about non-payment of minimum wages, non-implementation of EPF,ESI etc. Today was not different. It was from Etah SSA in UP(West). Workers are paid a dismal Rs. 2000 or so in a month. No social security measures implemented. Contract workers are retrenched when they demand for minimum wage.
This is nothing but cruel and brutal exploitaton of these hard working mazdoors
The Contractor and those who side with this expolitation should be ashamed of themsevels for looting these poor workers who work hard for the BSNL and customers.
This brutal ecploitation should end! The workers should get Justice!

The BJP government has today released some of the secret files on Subhas Chandra Bose. One of them is a copy of letter purportedly written by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to former British Prime Minister Atlee in which Netaji is mentioned as a ‘war criminal’. The question whether it is a document or forgery aside, the people of India never considered Subhas Chandra Bose as a War Criminal, but held him in high esteem and loved him as one of the fiery patriots who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country.