05 Tuesday Apr 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
The National Council of BSNL will be constituted soon. The staff side has given the list of of staff side members to the BSNL management. V.A.N.Namboodiri is the Leader and P.Abhimanyu the Secretary of Staff Side. The staff side members include comrades from all the alliance unions.
The Chairman of the National Steering Committee of United Forum is Suresh Kumar GS BSNLMS and I am the Convener.
05 Tuesday Apr 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
As per call of the Joint Action Committee of BSNL Associations/Unions of Executives and Non-Executives, BSNL workers all over the country organised protest demonstrations at lunch hour today, 05th April 2011 against the proposals of VRS, reduction in retirement age from 60 to 58 and merger of ITI with BSNL.
In corporate office of BSNL at New Delhi, a large number of workers participated in the demonstration. This was addressed by myself as the Convener, JAC, Suresh Kumar, GS BSNLMS, R.K.Kohli, General Secretary, NFTBE, Sethi, AIBSNLEA, A.A.Khan, AGS, SNEA, Hari Singh, BTU, R.S.Chauhan, BSNLEU and others.
05 Tuesday Apr 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
BSNL vide 40-46/2011-Pen(B) dated 04-04-2011 has forwarded the Revision of Pension orders for pre-2007 BSNL retirees to all circles etc. A copy of the same is put on the website of BSNLEU: WWW.bsnleuchq.com
05 Tuesday Apr 2011
Posted in 2G Scam Corruption, Corruption
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Almost all the private big business in telecom sector are in dock in the 2G scam. If anybody is not involved in the 2G scam, they are already involved in the earlier irregularities, violation of rules and regulations or getting undue advantage from the government. The corporate czars, Tata, Ambani and heads of almost all private telcos have already been summoned and examined by the CBI, PAC and other inquiry agencies. They may be called by the Joint Parliament Committee also.
The unholy nexus between the corporate houses, top politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, media persons – those who are powerful and rich are involved in looting the assets of the country. It has come to such an extent that during the last one year alone scams after scams involving lakhs and lakhs of crores have surfaced. The Manmohan Singh government has lost all authority to speak about ethics, morals, integrity and governance.
The liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation initiated by the Government since 1991 have its worse experience in the telecom sector, which is stated to be the biggest growing sector. The corruption, favouritism and irregularity all are also in the highest in telecom. But it is not alone. Even in the strategic and highly security area of defence and space organisation the corruption and favouritism are continuously happening as is seen in the Antrix-Devas agreement as also the Adarsh scam.
A clean up of the whole system is necessary. First of all, the crony capitalism being followed by the government has to be stopped forthwith. The people of this country has to fight unitedly for that.
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04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
Many comrades have been contacting me to know about whether the Pension Revision order of the pre-2007 BSNL retirees issued by DOT have been endorsed and sent to the field offices by the BSNL.
Today, 4th April, the same has been endorsed and forwarded to the field offices.
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted in India Left, Politics India
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communism by ballot, communist democracy, Inda communist government, Indian communism, Indian Left movement, Kerala first ministry
It was indeed a Historic Day for Kerala State. 54 years back on this day, 5th April 1957, the first Communist Ministry in India and In Kerala was formed under the leadership of E.M.S.Namboodiripad. In the first elections held in the Kerala state, the Communist Party won and the ministry was formed.
This Ministry implemented Land Reforms ,progressive changes in the education system and many other important landmark decisions.
The Congress Government at the centre could not tolerate a Communist Ministry and tried to topple it with defection etc. but could not succeed. At last it imposed the Article 356 and dismissed this Communist Ministry.
Later a lot of ministries all over India which were not liked by the government at the centre were dismissed under Article 356.
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
BSNL Executives and Non-Executives will hold lunch hour demonstrations tomorrow (5th April 2011) protesting against the proposals for VRS and reduction of retirement age from 60 to 58 years in BSNL as recommended by the BRPSE (Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises).This is as per call of the Joint Action Committee. This is a serious attack on the workers by the government and has to be resisted and defeated. Participate in full and give a strong warning to the government that the workers will never agree to these proposals.
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
” … This is the “animal spirit ” of the Indian capitalism that Manmohan Singh extolled in his 1991 Budget speech.What he forgot to tell the country is that this animal spirit of capitalism needs a state that allows for larceny on a grand scale. This is what we are seeing today. A huge transfer of nation’s scarce resources to the capitalist class, in which politicians and bureaucratic class are becoming prominent.”
A real analysis of the present scams and connected issues. This is from the article in “Peoples Democracy” dated March 28-April 03 by Prabir Purkaystha.
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted in Obituary, Tributes
Martin Luther King Jr., the great civil activist, was murdered on this day, 4th April, in 1968. He fought for the rights of the downtrodden and the poor which those in power could not tolerate. He has to sacrifice a lot and at last was murdered in Memphis in 1968 by the vested interests.
I pay my respectful homage to this great martyr.
03 Sunday Apr 2011
Posted in 2G Scam Corruption, Corruption
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After a long wait and prodding by the Supreme Court, the CBI has filed the charge sheet in the 2G spectrum scam on 2nd April 2011 in the Special Court of Special Judge O.P.Saini formed for this purpose. The accused includes former communications Minister A.Raja, former Secretary, DOT Sidhartha Behura, former Personal Secretary to Minister R.K.Chandolia, Director of Swan Telecom (now Etisalat B) Shahid Usman Balwa, Managing Director of Unitech Limited Sanjay Chandra, Group MD Reliance Gautam Doshi, Senior Vice- President Reliance Hari Nair another Senior Vice-President Surendra Pipara and Director Swan Telecom Vinod Goenka.
They have been charged for cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy etc. under provisions of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act. The loss to the Government is estimated about Rs. 30,984 crore. The charge sheet is about 80,000 pages, includes 654 documents and has mentioned 125 witnesses. It is stated that the documents clearly establishes the charges.
Will the case will reach its logical conclusion. Let us wait and see.
