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SBI to recruit 7200 employees

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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It is stated by the SBI Chairman that about 7200 employees will be recruited this financial year, considering the fact that about 8,100 employees are due to retire. Good news!

What about BSNL? About 10,000 to 15,000 are retiring every year. But almost no recruitment at all!

New Recruits are a must. Even in all private companies, whether telecom or banks, they have started recruitment in right earnest. But BSNL is still sleeping. It seems that the BSNL management is not worried about the efficiency and better service.

Communications Minister for Revival of BSNL, MTNL

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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Communications and IT Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has stated that he would personally oversee the revival of BSNL and MTNL. He also stated: “I will undertake a provocative role in monitoring performance of these companies. I will have network operating system installed in my office which will monitor the performances of the towers in all the circles. The circles with low performances will be questioned.”

The statement of the Minister is much welcome. There has been no systematic check up for the improvement of the BSNL, MTNL services so far.

But this alone is not sufficient. There are many urgent actions to be taken on which the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations has already given a memorandum to the Minister and sought for an appointment. The Minister has not found time to meet the Forum, although he was quick to meet the private companies to get their opinions. The Communications Minister should meet the representatives of the workers, who also have got very important suggestions for the revival of BSNL and MTNL and also for improvement of services to the people. Hope the Minister will act on his promise.

BSNL Management should hang its head in shame for cheating the workers.

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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The BSNL Management has released on 16-06-2014 the agreement between the Staff Side and the Official Side signed on 31-01-2013 on the change of designation of RM and TM. Accordingly, the Regular Mazdoor designation will be changed in to Telecom Assistant and the Telecom Mechanic designation will be changed to Telecom Technician. While there was no stipulation that this agreement will be implemented only after settlement on the change of designation of Sr.TOA and TTA, such a clause is also arbitrarily written as an after thought below the signatures.

It is more than one and half years since the agreement was signed. But the management did not even release the agreement. It is the same management which continuously changed the designations of the ITS officers and in some cases that of executives at their will and pleasure. But when it is a question of non-executives, it is only delay and neglect. The Management should hang its head in shame at its neglect of its own workforce.

BSNL staff strength reduced by more than one lakh.

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Every month, the number of staff in BSNL is being reduced by thousands. During the last 13 years of its existence, more than one lakh thirty thousand employees have retired with only about 30,000 recruited.

While there were about 3.5 lakh employees at the time of formation of BSNL, the present staff strength is only about 2.45 lakhs.

There is extreme necessity for new recruitment in the lowest cadres of the non-executives, where no recruitment has taken place since BSNL formation, except for regularisation of some TSM/casual labour, which also has been stopped since 2006.

Whatever the management may say, this is one of the reasons for the deterioration of the services. While the management has agreed in the National Council that fresh blood is required, no action has been taken by it so far for new recruitment in the lowest cadres. This should be done to save BSNL and for a better service to the customers.

Scrap the Telephone Advisory Committees of BSNL

01 Sunday Jun 2014

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The Telephone Advisory Committees (TAC) constituted for BSNL is no longer necessary. It was constituted at the time when there was only DOT providing telephone services. There are members from 20 to 80 in these committees which are at SSA and circle levels.The requirement of the same is over after the private companies have started providing services. No private telecom company is having such TACs. It is a huge expenditure for BSNL towards, TA and other expenditure of the members, for holding meetings etc.

The new minister should see that these TACs are scrapped immediately.

Forum Submits Memorandum to Communications Minister

29 Thursday May 2014

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The Forum of BSNL Unions has submitted a Memorandum to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communications Minister on the need for revival of BSNL and the role the government has to take in the matter including honouring the assurances given by the NDA government when BSNL was formed in 2000. The Memorandum is signed by the Unions/ Associations in BSNL. The Forum has also requested for a meeting to present the issues in person. The full Text of the Memorandum will be placed in the websites of the unions/associations.

Pension Contribution should be on the basis of the actual pay and not on the maximum of the pay scale.

29 Thursday May 2014

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The government orders in general on the payment of pension contribution in case of deputation of officials are that the institution where the official is working on deputation should pay pension contribution to the government based on the actual pay being drawn by the employee. This is commonsense and appropriate.

But in the case BSNL absorbed DOT Officials for whom the pension is paid by the government, BSNL is compelled to pay pension contribution based on the maximum of the pay scale of the official. This results in hundreds of crores of rupees extra payment by BSNL. This is complete injustice.

The Forum has demanded the government that this situation should be changed and necessary orders issued so that BSNL can pay pension contribution on the basis of the actual pay of the official, which will be a big relief to BSNL.

Forum Finalises the memorandum to Minister

27 Tuesday May 2014

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The Forum of BSNL Unions and Associations which met today, 27 May, at Local Council Room, NTR Delhi discussed the memorandum to be submitted to the Communications Minister. All the unions/Associations are requested to be present tomorrow, 28 May, at 1100 hours at the same place (LC Room, Delhi NTR)to sign the memorandum.

Wish List of Private Telecom Companies

20 Tuesday May 2014

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Private Telecom Companies are really fast. They have already decided what are their immediate demands and wish -list to be presented to the government. Reports in the media have focussed the five main demands, which are as follows:

1. Make more spectrum available for data usage

2. Rationalise the taxes and levies in the sector

3. Facilitate introduction of new and efficient technologies such as M2M and cloud computing

4. Implement the benefits of the status for the industry in parity with other infrastructure sectors in the country

5. Exploring a revenue sharing arrangement between the over the top Internet players and telecom companies.

The lines are clear. The telecom corporates want that they should be favoured and all restrictions and regulations in the sector have to be rescinded for their benefit.

What the PSU telecom companies, BSNL and MTNL, are demanding? They also have to formulate what is immediately required for the revival of BSNL and MTNL? Delay will be costly.

BSNL and MTNL workers and their organisations also have to move fast with their demands to save BSNL and MTNL and strengthen them to give a better service to the people.

SBI move to shift BSNL connections to Reliance

15 Thursday May 2014

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It is reported by the Bank Unions that there is a move to shift the BSNL connections of State Bank of India to Reliance. Already the majority services of the SBI is being outsourced to Reliance as part of the neo-liberal policy of the Government. In continuation, the phones are being planned to shift from the PSU BSNL to private corporate Reliance.

Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Convener, Forum has already spoken to Shri R.K.Upadhyay, CMD BSNL, to take immediate steps to ensure that the SBI connections are retained to BSNL. Messages have also been sent to the Directors of BSNL.