Will the PM announce OROP on Independence Day?

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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The moot question now is whether PM Narendra Modi will announce the ‘One Rank One Pension’ on the Independence Day?
The retired Defence personnel have been demanding  this for the last many years. The Satyagraha by them at Delhi will complete 60 days by this Independence Day.
Govt. had given assurances many times, but not honoured so far. It is a great injustice to the sentinels of the nation.
Mr.PM, announce ‘OROP’ on ID! Do not continue the injustice!

Farmer Suicides – Massive dharna in Delhi by family members

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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3b8cc6759812a4d178c2bf7be56c607dCom. Sitaram Yechury, M.P. and General Secretary CPI(M) addressing the dharna.

New Delhi, August  10 : Hundreds of Farmers and agricultural Workers converged in Delhi for a Two-Day Sit-In Dharna with the call for united struggles against Neo-Liberal Economic Policies. Over 100 Family members of Farmers who committed suicide and hundreds of others in solidarity with them began a Dharna at Jantar Mantar today. The Farmers came from the States of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Bengal.

Have you started the Post Card Campaign ? If not, start it immediately.

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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The Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations has taken a very appropriate decision to send a post card by each and every employee addressed to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communications Minister, demanding immediate steps for the revival of BSNL. It was only due to the anti-BSNL decisions and policy of both the UPA and NDA Governments that BSNL has started posting loss for the last few years and the service has gone down. It is the responsibility of the government to restore it to its glorious past. The employees under the leadership of Forum are taking every step to ensure financial viability of BSNL and better service to the customers. Due to this, the service has improved and the losses are marginally coming down for the last two years. But it is only through support from the government the process could be expedited.

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad continuously declares that he will not allow BSNL and MTNL to die and that the government will give all assistance to BSNL and MTNL.  Words have to be followed by action, which is missing. Leave alone liberal assistance, even what is due to BSNL is not being paid. Rs. 1,250 crore which is due to BSNL in lieu of ADC for 2012-13, though approved, is yet to be paid. Rs. 4,460 crore, the balance of refund of the spectrum ( after adjusting Rs. 2,000 crore towards Licence Fee) is yet to be paid. Only Rs. 169.16 crore alone is approved by the Cabinet, recently. Great injustice is being done towards BSNL by the government.

The employees also are very much agitated that the Communications Minister, since he has taken over charge, has not met the Forum leaders even once, despite several requests, even after the strike Notice was served.

It is in this context that the Forum has decided to organise the Post Card Campaign from 10th to 22nd August 2015, by sending Post Cards to the Minister demanding immediate action for the revival of BSNL. Each and every employee, whether executive or non-executive, should write with his signature and address and post the same during this period of 13 days.

It may not be out of place to mention one thing. Unless the decision is completely implemented, the full power of the unions / associations can not be shown to the Government. The SSA/Branch Secretaries should ensure that the Post Card is sent by each and every employee. In the case of those on leave also, the same should be ensured. The CHQs of the unions/ associations need to be informed about the number of post cards dispatched, so that the exact number could be ascertained. This is part of the organisational activity, which every member has a responsibility to implement.

The Campaign is for the defence of the BSNL and its workers. It is for a better service to the customers. Each and every employee should be part of this campaign for the Revival of BSNL.

 

Telecom TU Movement 1991 to 2015 (2)

10 Monday Aug 2015

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Bhopal AIC – OPG defeated, Moni Bose elected as GS, E.III Union

The polling continued for many hours. With more than thirty names in the ballot paper, it was not easy for the delegates to tick the names they supported and to vote. Smaller circles could complete the voting earlier, but it took much more time for the big circles. It took many hours to count the ballots which almost continued for a good portion of the night also.

When the results started coming from the circles one by one, delegates looked up unbelievingly. It became almost sure that OPG, General Secretary, was going to be defeated. Frantic efforts were made by the group to stop announcement of the results by raising untenable objections.

Homi Daji, President and Presiding Officer, was pressurized not to announce results. But he stood firm and did not want to be seen as taking a wrong position in front of thousands of delegates. There was pin drop silence, when the President announced that he was going to declare the results.

The results were announced for the posts one after another with the number of votes received. V.A.N.Namboodiri was declared elected as President and Moni Bose as General Secretary with good majority. Out of 15 posts of office-bearers, OPG group got only 4 posts, that too with very thin majority.

The following were declared elected from Moni Bose panel:

President                                 : Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri

Vice-Presidents                       : Com.A.K.Saramma

:Com.Anima Banerjee

:Com.K.D.M.Tripathi

General Secretary                  :Com.Moni Bose

Asst. General Secretaries       :Com.M.N.Reddy

:Com.S.R.Nayak

Treasurer                                 :Com.Begraj Khari

Asst. Treasurer                        :Com.P.S.Sangwan

Coms. N.T.Sajwani, N.Y.Lokhande(Vice-Presidents), R.K.Kohli and S.Jagannathan(Asst. General Secretaries) got elected from OPG’s panel.

Federal Councilors

The election to the posts of Federal Councilors to NFTE was also conducted. Out of 35 posts, a good majority were elected from Moni Bose’s panel. The list of the elected Federal Councilors is given below:

Comrades Gunasekharan, S.B.Borkar, R.L.Mondal, Gour Saha, Swadesh Das, A.K.Bhattacharjee, Paritosh Bose, Shibdas Banerjee, J.Ranganathan, P.Abhimanyu, P.V.Chandrasekharan, S.N.Sarma, P.Ramaswami, P.Asokababu, N.T.Sajwani, S.B.Srinivasan, R.S.Yadav, M.Madhusudana Rao, R.K.Totre, M.P.Dalwadi, M.N.Khokhani, N.Chakravarthy, S.Siddiqui, B.B.Raut, L.N.Mishra, S.G.Pawar, B.P.Sharma, K.L.Sharma, D.V.Lavadia, M.B.Vichare, Triveni Rai, Sriram Swarankar, J.Sampath Rao and J.S.Pandey.

OPG accepts the results

Though shocked and reluctant at first, O.P.Gupta out-going General Secretary, accepted defeat and assured full co-operation to the new team. The AIC ended amidst slogans welcoming and congratulating the newly elected office-bearers.

Thus the Bhopal AIC ended with a change of team. The old reformist leadership was defeated and a new set of office-bearers with V.A.N.Namboodiri as President and Moni Bose as General Secretary were elected to the leadership of the biggest union in telecom. (to be continued).

Construction workers to get ESI benefits.

10 Monday Aug 2015

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The Employees State Insurance Corporation ha decided to extend the health  benefits to the lakhs of construction workers.

“The Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has approved extending benefits of the ESI scheme to workers deployed on construction sites from August 1, 2015,” said an official of the ESI.

This is certainly a welcome step. It is not understood why the benefit was not extended earlier?

Telcos penalised for increased radiation of Towers (BTS)

09 Sunday Aug 2015

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The government has imposed total penalty of 10.80 crore on telecom operators for exceeding prescribed electronic frequency (EMF) limits, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.

According to the statement, the maximum penalty of Rs 2.15 crore was imposed on Bharti Airtel, followed by Rs 1.80 crore on Vodafone, Rs 1.65 crore on Reliance and Rs 1.45 crore on Tata Teleservices. A penalty of Rs 95 lakh was imposed on Idea, Rs 90 lakh on Aircel, Rs 70 lakh on BSNL, Rs 55 lakh on Loop, Rs 15 lakh on MTNL, Rs 5 lakh on Sistema Shyam Teleservices, Rs 35 lakh on Uninor and Rs 10 lakh on Videocon.

He said that during 2015-16 (upto May 31), 6 base tower stations (BTSs) were found exceeding the prescribed radiation limit on actual testing. The number of towers exceeding the limit stood at 103 in 2012-13 and 77 in 2013-14, while none of the towers were found to exceed the limit in 2014-15. (Courtesy: Financial Express)

70 the anniversary of Nagasaki bombing observed

09 Sunday Aug 2015

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70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, by the USA, was observed there on 9th August, the day it was bombed causing more than 74,000 death, with thousands of people participating. The people, as usual, took the pledge to keep peace and not to take any steps for any military adventure or armament.

At the same time, the Government was criticised  for its move to change the peace policy it continued for the last 70 years and preparing some kind of defence strategy.

VII CPC Report may be delayed

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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As per the communications from Com. Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, Staff Side, JCM National Council, the report of the VII Central Pay Commission may be delayed by about one month. The report was expected to be submitted by the last week of August 2015.

Com. Mishra had met the Chairman and Secretary of the VII CPC on 7th August 2015, during which this news was conveyed to him.

Lakhs of CG employees are eagerly waiting for the report. Most of the state governments also implement the recommendations. It will have its own impact on the Pay Revision/Wage Agreement in the the central Public Sector also.

“Why do you bring more trains, when you can not protect the lives”? – SC

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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“Why do you bring more trains, when you can not protect the lives”?

The above question raised by the Supreme Court to the central government and department of railways is in time and most appropriate. Almost every week, report of train accidents and deaths are reported, either due to technical reasons or human error. The safety of the passengers are not given the priority that should be. As stated in this blog earlier, the modernisation and update of the tracks, regular check up, appointment of regular staff etc. are some of the issues immediately to be attended to, with sufficient funds from the government. The government should act without delay.

Mysuru – Cleanest City in the Country, Bengaluru the cleanest state Capital

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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Karnataka state has got the first position both with regard to the cleanest city in the country, out of 476  cities,  as also the cleanest state capital. Mysuru and Bengaluru are the cities respectively. It has also got two other cities, viz. Hassan and Mandya included in the first 10 cleanest cities. Congratulations for the people of Karnataka for this rare distinction.

The first ten cleanest cities include Tiruchirappally, (T.Nadu), Navi Mumbai, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram(Kerala), Halisahar(W.Bengal) and Gangtok (Sikkim).

These rankings are based on the extent of open defecation and solid waste management practices in these cities.

But compared to the cities in UK, Europe etc. we are still far behind. We have yet to see whether the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will have some major effect on the cleanliness in the nation. The old saying is ” Cleanliness is next to godliness”, which shows the importance given to cleanliness from those days. We can miss godliness, but not cleanliness.