19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Telecom
The New Delhi Municipal Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent with Indus Towers, a joint venture of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, for providing Wifi in New Delhi. It is stated that about 18,500 poles will have to be erected for the purpose.
Though MTNL is the telecom PSU operating in Delhi, the Letter of intent is given to private companies. In our opinion, the NDMC should entrust the work with MTNL.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Neo-liberal policy, PSU
The government is proposing to sell shares of BHEL, NMDC, NALCO, ONGC, PFC, REC etc. in the financial year 2015-16 to mop up about Rs.41,000 crores. These sales are nothing but handing over of the nation’s assets to the corporate bigwigs for a portion of their real worth. There has been huge corruption in the sale of shares earlier and it will be there in future also. These sales of share are nothing but the steps towards privatisation
Handing over the assets of the nation to the corporate should stop.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in General
The decision of the Election Commission to put photos of candidates in the ballot paper is timely and necessary. This will stop the confusion being created by the candidates with the same or similar name. This scheme will be implemented from the elections being held after 1 May 2015.
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in General, WORLD NEWS
Chinese government has called for observance of 2015 as Visit India Year. This is to be appreciated as more Chinese will be visiting India which will benefit tourism in India. The information was given in the Parliament by Tourism Minister Manesh Sharma.
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in General
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19th March 2015 is the 17th death anniversary of Com. E.M.S.Namboodiripad, former General Secretary of CPI(M) and the first Chief Minister of Kerala State.
Com. EMS, as he was respectfully called, was one of the finest intellectuals of the century, in addition being an ideologue as well as a practical Communist. His first Ministry of 1957 passed the Land Bill which benefited lakhs of landless in Kerala. The Education Bill was another feather in his crown.
Com.EMS has got close connection with the P and T Trade Union movement. It was he, who inaugurated the All India Conference of E.III Union in Thiruvananthapuram in 1994 in which I was elected as the General Secretary. We remembeer the great contribution he has given to the Communist movement.
Red Salute to Com. EMS on this 17th death anniversary!
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in General
New Delhi, March 18: As continuation of the massive March to Parliament on 24th February against the Bill on Land Acquisition by the NDA Government, the “Joint Forum against the Land Acquisition Bill 2015” has called upon the people at large to observe 23rd March, 2015 the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru as the Land Rights Day. The All India Kisan Sabha calls up on its units all over the country to make the observation of the day successful by joining hands with all other member organisations of the Joint Forum. (INN)
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, BSNL News
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Dangerous Signal – BSNL Market Share at 8.62% in December 2014, the lowest ever.
The warning bell has been rung. The market share of BSNL in mobile has gone down to the lowest ever of 8.62%! It means that more than 91 % is under the control of the private companies, both Indian and foreign.
Despite the Save BSNL Campaign by the entire workers and their unions and Associations, this dangerous situation has come. In the mobile sector, BSNL lost 12,36,909 connetions in one month between Dec.14 – Jan.15. At present it has got only 8.01 crore connections whereas the leader Bharti Airtel has got 22.00 crore. 1,32,535 landlines has been lost in the same period and the remaining landlines are 1.68 crore.
The market share of each circle in the mobile sector as on 31-12-2014 is given below, which is as per the satement of the Minister in the Parliament on 13th March 2015.
Kerala (21.67%), H.P.(18.86%), North East (14.97%), Haryana (14.11%) A.P & Telengana ( 14.08%), J&K (13.93%), Odisha (12.73%), T.Nadu & Chennai (12.36%), Karnataka (11.77%), Punjab (10.31%), UP East(10.03%), Assam (7.77%),Maharashtra, Goa(7.07%), UP West, Uttarakhand (6.80%), Rajasthan, M.P., Chhattisgarh (6.51%), Gujarat(5.59%),Bihar, Jharkhand (4.51%), W.Bengal, Sikkim (4.28%), Kolkata (3.65%).
If so many landlines and mobiles have been surrendered/disconnected in a month, there is something serious with BSNL and its workers. These telephones which are disconnected might have some reasons. For landlines, of course, the major reason may be conversion to mobile. But what about the reduction in mobile itself?
In mobile as well as Broadband we have lost the first position. Our position in the landlines is fast coming down.
We have to face the challenge squarely and make all out efforts to restore our position. We can not become irrelevant in the telecom sector. The allotment of fresh spectrum to private companies after the auction will be another challenge that we will have to face.
Your job, you salary, your future is in danger. Govt. says that BSNL will not be privatised. It is because, they could not answer the many questions raised in the Parliament on the basis of the information/letters submitted by the Forum as part of the Save BSNL Campaign. Tomorrow they can make a turn around and say that there is no need for BSNL and it can either be closed or privatised.
This is a ‘Do or Die’ battle. Let all the 2,26,000 executives and non-executives exert all their energy for improving the services and also pressurising the management and government to assist BSNL for its survival and revival. SAVE BSNL – SAVE NATION!
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in Neo-liberal policy, PSU
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The aggressive move of the Central Government to hand over the Kolkata, Chennai and other profit making airports is strongly opposed. Modernisation of these airports has been done by the Airport Authority of India with huge costs and there is no need for another modernisation immediately. It is intended only for privatisation.
The government should stop this anti-PSU move.
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
By 17th the Spectrum bids have reached Rs. 1.07 lakh crore. The government will certainly get good money.
But what about the consumers? It is afraid that the private companies who have taken thousands of crores of rupees from the Banks for bidding will certainly raise the charges. The consumers will be compelled to pay more. Since BSNL and MTNL are in the field, it will not be so much easy for the private companies to increase much. We can watch the developments.
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, BSNLEU
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Bathinda, March 17
Some miscreants stole underground cables of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), amounting to worth Rs 15 lakh, from near Government Rajindra College on the intervening night of March 14 and 15 in the city.The thieves stole the expensive seven 400-meter-long copper wires from the 6 feet deep manhole opposite Rajindra College and Liberty chowk. The police said the theft was carried out with planning as the thieves had hired an excavator of Baljinder Singh 10 days ago. They had told him that they had got the contractor for changing wires of BSNL. At around 10.30 pm on Saturday night, the accused, along with Baljinder Singh and the excavator, reached the spot and started cutting the wire. They loaded the wires in a tractor brought by the accused. They also paid Rs 1,000 to Baljinder and told him that they would continue the work the next morning.On Sunday, Baljinder Singh reached the spot but did not find anyone. So, on Monday, he went to the BSNL office to get the payment. SDO Ashwani Kumar said on Sunday morning, they were flooded with complaints from the residents that the landline and broadband connections were not working after which they came to know that the wires were stolen by some miscreants.Civil Lines police station official Jagsir Singh said they had received a complainant from the BSNL office regarding the incident yesterday evening following which they registered a case under Sections 379 and 120 B of the IPC. The incident has affected the BSNL services in various areas of the city, including Civil Lines, Mansa Road, Model Town Phase-1, Dabwali Road and the grain market. Meanwhile, new wires are being installed to commence the services.. Civil Line police station SHO Karamjit Singh said usually the laying of cables was done in the night due to which the thieves succeeded in committed the crime under the garb of routine work.
