AIBDPA Conference at Kannur – 6th – 7th February 2013

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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All arrangements are being made by the Reception Committee at Kannur for holding of the Triennial Conference of the AIBDPA.
The Conference will be inaugurated by Com. Basudeb Acharya, Member of Parliament and the same will be addressed by S/Shri S.C.Misra, Member(Services) DOT, A.N.Rai Director (HR) BSNL and KCGK Pillai, Director (Finanace) BSNL. Coms. S.K.Vyas, Secretary General NCCPA and Chairman Confederation of CG Employees, V.A.N.Namboodiri, President BSNLEU and Advisor, AIBDPA, P.Abhimanyu, General secretary, BSNLEU, M.Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE and other leaders will also address. The Conference will be presided over by Com. A.K.Bhattacharjee, President AIBDPPA and the Report will be presented by Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary.
More than 500 delegates from all the circles are expected to attend.
THE AIBDPA Conference will discuss about the issues of the DOT and BSNL Pensioners and chalk out suitable programmes of action.

New Year – Better Service to the Nation

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Let us dedicate the New Year 2013 to a Better Telecom Service to the Nation. For more than one century, the P andT Department was hailed and appreciated as one department which gave the finest service to the people, whether telecom or postal. We have to acknowledge that the service has deteriorated after formation of BSNLMTNL, reasons for which are well known to all. 14/12 years are over after formation of MTNL/ BSNL and the PSUs have posted losses for the last three years. Service is also wanting.
The 3,00,000 workers, both executives and nonexecutives have to unitedly ensure that a better service is rendered to the people as before. The anti-PSU policy of the government has to be changed, the managements should function effectively and the workers have to put maximum efforts. The Joint Forum of BSNL/MTNL Unions/Associations has a great responsibility in compelling the government and the management to change their policies and decisions and also inspire the workers for maximum productivity and better interaction with the public.
We shall win! We shall give a better service to the Nation! We shall save BSNL and MTNL!

Exempt BSNL/MTNL from one-time payment for extra Spectrum

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Yesterday, DOT has asked all the telecom companies who have got extra spectrum allotted earlier to pay a one-time fee for the same. According to this order Bharti Airtel will have to pay Rs. 4,281 crore, Vodafone 2,969 crore, Idea 2,115 crore, Aircel 483 crore, Reliance 285 crore and BSNL/MTNL Rs9,983 crore coming to a total of Rs. 20,115 crore.

We welcome this decision, since the spectrum should not be given free to private companies who are interested in only making profits. But at the same time, BSNL and MTNL should be exempted from paying this one-time charge considering their weak financial position as also the fact that they are government companies implementing the social committment of the government to spread connectivity through out India, including the rural areas and lakhs of villages, which are loss making to the PSUs. We demand the government to issue necessary directions for exempting BSNL and MTNL from this payment.

Revolutionary Greetings to Cuba!

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Today is the 54th anniversary of the great revolution by the people of Cuba and declaration of the Republic of Cuba under the leadership of Fidel Castro,Che Guivera and other guerilla leaders.
During these five decades, despite the attacks and blocades by the imperialists led by US, this tiny socialist country has developed as the topmost healthcare country in the world. The love and affection for the people of India by the Cuban people has been experienced by me while I visited Cuba to attend the WTO Conference in 2005.
Today morning I called the Cuban Consulate and conveyed the Greetings of BSNL Employees Union and mine for the Cuban Revolution anniversary as also New Year Greetings!
Greetings to the people of Cuba on the Anniversary of Cuban Revolution!

4.2% IDA increase justified from January 2013.

31 Monday Dec 2012

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BSNL employees are eligible for a DA increase of 4.2% w.e.f. January 2013 as per the cost of living index.The total IDA will now be 71.5% ( 67.3% plus 4.2%). Orders are yet to be issued.

The IDA has crossed the 50% months back. BSNLEU has demanded merger of 50% IDA with pay. Joint agitation is required in the matter.

Gang Rape – CPI(M) Statement

31 Monday Dec 2012

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New Delhi, December 29: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its deep sorrow at the tragic death of the brave young woman who had been a victim of brutal gangrape on a moving bus in the heart of the capital. It extends its heartfelt condolences to her family. It calls upon the government to extend all possible help now and in the future to them. It is even more tragic that had the government and the police done its duty the horrific incident could have been avoided.

The PB of the CPI(M) demands the most stringent punishment to the accused criminals.

This is not an isolated incident. Sexual assault cases are the fastest increasing crimes in India. It is essential for the government at the Centre and the states to put into place long pending required measures to prevent violence against women which have been demanded by women’s organizations and Left parties and which the government has failed to accept and implement. Such measures should include steps to ensure security, easy access to time-bound justice, punishment to officials for non-implementation, referring all pending cases to fast track courts and reformed and stringent laws against sexual assault.

Another Brutal rape and murder in A.P.

31 Monday Dec 2012

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While the entire country is shocked and strongly protesting against the brutal rape and asault which resulted in the death of the Delhi Paramedical student, another case of brutal rape and hanging of a 14 year girl has been reported from A.P. Thousands of protesters are blocking the roads nearby and there is an explosive situation. As in the case of Delhi rape case, the A.P.State government is also trying to choke the voice of the people by not allowinng the media to reach there and report the same. Hence the full reports and visuals are not available in the channels now. But government will fail in its move to silence the people and media. The culprit has been arrested.

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

31 Monday Dec 2012

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The New Year 2013 is here. The year 2012 was full of activities as far as the workers are concerned. It was also a year full of struggles for the rights of the people and the toiling masses. At the end of the year, the brutal attack and rape of the young woman in Delhi has shocked the conscience of the entire country and a movement led by the youngsters and students has rocked the country, putting the ruling classes and the government on the defensive. The insensitive government will be compelled to take at least some measures in the new year on these and other issues. Because of the tragedy, New Year celebrations have been cancelled by many organisations and individuals. Certainly, nobody can celebrate when there is such a tragedy in our minds.Still we welcome the New Year with the hope that the people and the working class will continue their struggles and will move forward for a better society.
My best Wishes to all for the New Year!

Government in the ‘Emergency Mode’ ?

31 Monday Dec 2012

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The people have been protesting against the Delhi Gang Rape and the brutal attack on the young girl since the last two weeks demanding the government to take immediate action and ensure safety for women. Despite maximum efforts, the girl could not be saved and she passed away on 30th December putting the entire country in grief and sorrow.

The method in which the protesters who were mostly students and young men and women peacefully demonstrating their anguish and anger was dealt with by the Central government and the Delhi police, was to say the least, insensitive and autocratic. The thousands who gathered at India Gate and before the Rashtrapathi Bhawan were lathi-charged, attacked with tear-gas and water cannon and many were arrested and beaten in the police station. Later, India Gate and nearby places were cordoned off, and nobody was allowed to reach there. 10 Metro stations in the city were closed harassing the people who wanted to come to the city. Railway Stations were also closed. Thousands of police, para-military forces and commandos were employed against the peaceful demonstrators.

The central government in a panic modem shifted the victim from the ICU of Safdarjung Hospital to a hospital in Singapore without consulting the family or the hospital doctors who were treating her day and night. Further instead of taking the doctors at the hospital where she was treated the government engaged doctors from a private hospital to accompany the victim patient. And after her death the body was secretly brought bck and created in a hush with out even allowing the neibhours at the creamation ground.

Even after the death, the prohition continued. Protesters are allowed in Jantar Mantar only. Restrictions continues in many ways.

What all these indicate? Whether it is the Central Government, the state government or the police authorities, they are moving away from the democratic to autocratic methods. They want to suffocate the popular protests. They want to suprreess the peaceful movement. Yes, there is a shade of the anti-people and dictactorial ’emergency’ in all these actions.

Let us be aware of this ‘shade of emergency’. The government should not be allowed to trample upon the democratic rights of the peole to protest against the inaction and wrong action of the government. The government should be made to understand that there will be severe reaction to these dictatorial methods from the people.

BSNLCCW Union Conference at Amritsar

31 Monday Dec 2012

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The Punjab Circle Conference of the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Union was held at Amritsar on 29th December 2012. This city is famous for its Golden Temple, which is the most holiest Gurudwara of the Sikhs. Jhalianwala Bagh is also here, where in 1919, hundreds of people, who had gathered there for a protest meting were murdered by the British.
This is also the district in which lies the Wagha border with pakistan, where many people throng in the evenings to see the border force on both sides show their military salutes etc.
Amritsar is one of the cities in the north, where the temperature is very low during winter. In fact it was very cold on the day of the conference also.
The Conference was held in a hall near the BSNL office. About 300 comrades participated, who have come from all the ditricts of Punjab. Com. R.L.Moudgil, AGS and Circle President BSNLEU presided. Coms. Balbir Singh, Circle secretary, BSNLEU, H.S.Dhillon, Dist. Secretary, Chandigarh, Sarbajit Singh, District Secretary, Amritsar,Tarsem Singh, District Secretary, Ferozpur, Kamaljit Singh, Vice-President, Baljinder Singh, Darshan Singh, Circle Secretary, BSNLCCWU, Iqbal Singh Dhillon, Bhoglal, S.S.bedi and other leaders addressed the Conference. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President BSNLEU and BSNLCCWF spoke in detail about the issues of the casual and contract workers, the efforts made by the union to settle the issues, the formation of BSNLCCWF, the agitational activities etc. he also briefed the house about the deliberations in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on labour on the issues of the casual and contract worklers in BSNL. Some of the delegates also spoke, explaining the non-implementation of the orders on minimum wage etc. in their districts.
The Conference decided to strengthen the union by bringing maximum workers to its fold.The conference decided to organise the CGM Office March in January 2013 as called by the CEC meeting of BSNLCCWF.
Circle Union office-bearers were unanimously elected with Coms. Darshan Singh Ludhiana as President, Baljinder Singh Patiala as Circle secretary and Surinder Singh (Samana) Patiala as Treasurer.