A very important meeting of the Forum of BSNL Unions / Associations is scheduled to be held at 03.00 PM tomorrow ( 13th June 2013)at the FNTO office. The meeting was fixed in the Forum meeting held yesterday for calling off the strike after the issue of the 78.2% IDA pay fixation. It was unanimously agreed that the next immediate priority should be the revival of BSNL, for which the Forum can take a pivotal role. A detailed memorandum has already been submitted to the Group of ministers (GoM) appointed for the purpose. The intention of the govt. may be to introduce VRS, start disinvestment etc. This challenge has to be accepted and the crisis should be made an opportunity for improving the services and revitalising. We can never agree to VRS or disinvestment. We have given specific suggestions for making BSNL viable and improve services.

All these issues will be seriously discussed in the meeting tomorrow and suitable decisions taken.  Suggestions in this connection are welcome.