15 Friday May 2015
Posted in Telecom
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The appeal of the private telecom companies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Telecom and some others for extension of their 20 years spectrum licence for 10 years more has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The SC stated that it is the prerogative of the executive to decide, whether the licence is to be extended or not and the court will not interfere.
22 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, PSU
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The Supreme court on 18th December denied stay on the decision of the TDSAT to cancel the penalty of Rs. 1,200 crore imposed on the private telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea for illegally providing 3G services in the circles, where they did not get the spectrum through auction. The service was provided by them through agreements with other private companies. This was opposed by DOT as illegal and imposed the penalty. But the TDSAT, on appeal gave the decision to allow the roaming. It was against this decision that DOT filed the appeal in the Supreme Court.
The present decision is subject to the final judgment of the Supreme Court which is yet to be delivered.
It is alleged that DOT /BSNL who have much to lose in the TDSAT decision, have not effectively dealt with the case.
03 Wednesday Dec 2014
Posted in General
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NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, the Chief Justice of India has set up a special bench of two judges to hear cases related to social issues.
Chief Justice HL Dattu said starting next week, the “Social Justice Bench” will meet every Friday afternoon to handle Public Interest Litigations (PILs) and other petitions on issues ranging from the availability of night shelters for the homeless to whether children in government schools are being provided free mid-day meals and the efficacy of the Public Distribution Scheme which is meant to provide poor families access to subsidized grain.
He said the Supreme Court must play “a proactive role to meet the goals of the constitution.”
The two judges who will handle these cases every Friday are Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice UU Lalit. (Courtesy: NDTV)
29 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Corruption, General
After the severe rap by the Supreme Court against the Government yesterday in not intimating the names of the account holders in foreign banks, the Attorney General submitted names of 627 account holders to the supreme court in a sealed cover today.
This new development is good.Now it is for the Supreme Court to decide whether to release the same or not. Now the government can not hold back the names any further.
28 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in General
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In a big set back to the NDA government, the Supreme Court today directed the government to share by tomorrow the names of all Indians with foreign bank accounts.
The government was dilly-dallying without giving the names of the black money account holders. The SC has correctly censured the government.
Both the ruling parties will have skeletons in the cup board. Let all this tumble upon the floor. The BJP, which was shouting from the hill top that if they are elected they will publish the names of black money holders as also that the unaccounted money will be brought back to India is backing out in the name of treaties etc.
The SC direction is fully justified.
13 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
The Supreme Court in its judgment in Dev Prakash Vs UP Co-operative Institutional Service Board has stated that disciplinary proceedings against an employee after retirement can not be continued. The judgement was given by the Division Bench of justice T.S.Thakur and Justice C.Nagappan.
The judgement stated that once an employee retires from service, there was no authority vested in the employer to continue the disciplinary proceedings even for the purpose of imposing any deduction in the benefits payable after retirement to the delinquent employees.
Allowing the appeal filed by the above appellant the Division Bench quashed the disciplinary proceedings and also directed the respondent to pay arrears of salary and allowances payable to the appellant and also to pay him his post-retirement benefits.
This is a good judgement. There are several cases in BSNL, where the retired employees are put to many hardships by continuing disciplinary proceedings even after retirement. These cases have to be taken up with the BSNL Management. (Courtesy : Hindu dt. 13th July)
27 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Telecom
The DOT has started the process for collection of fines from the private telecom companies which continued to use 2G even after the supreme Court Order date 2, February 2012. It is based on the order of the SC to collect fee from the companies for the use after the court order. Altogether DOT is expected to get Rs. 2,451 crores.
Of course, the private companies may go to the court, or better will influence the government to get the charges cancelled in the name of giving the ‘right signals’ to the industry.
12 Wednesday Mar 2014
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GDS, High Court, NFPE, SC
The Supreme Court has transferred the Writ Petition filed by the NFPE and All India Postal Employees Union GDS(NFPE) seeking for direction to be issued to the Union of India to treat Gramin Dak Sevaks (formerly called Extra Departmental Employees) as Civil Servants for all purposes on par with regular employees and also seeking declaration of GDS (Conduct and Engagement) Rules as invalid and unconstitutional to the Delhi High Court for consideration. The Supreme Court also stated that Delhi High will be the appropriate Court as the matter is better considered by one High Court.
The Judgement is very important on two counts. One, the SC has taken the issue seriously. Second, the case has been transferred from SC to High Court, which is not usually ordered. The case will be disposed in SC and the petitioner will be asked to approach the High Court. Here, the SC itself has transferred the case directly to Delhi HC, instead of asking the petitioner to file the case.
The NFPE deserves appreciation for taking up the case. I hope that the High Court takes a favourable decision.
25 Saturday Jan 2014
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Delhi High Court, ED, GDS, NFPE, SC
The NFPE and GDS union have been continuously pressing the government and also organising struggles for the regularisation of the Gramin Dak Sevaks (Extra Departmental Employees), numbering about three lakhs working in the Post offices throughout the country.They have filed a case in the Supreme Court praying for regularisation etc.
Now the Supreme Court has referred the matter to the Delhi High Court to decide the prayer of NFPE and AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) to treat the Gramin Dak Sevaks as civil servants for all purposes on par with the regular employees.
10 Friday Jan 2014
Posted in Corruption, Politics India
The Central Government was compelled to admit in the Supreme Court that “Something has gone wrong”in the allocation of the Coal Blocks, while the hearing was going on yesterday, 9th January. Attorney General G.Vahanvati stated the same for the government.
The government had no other alternative to admit wrong doing in the face of umpteen evidences, both oral and by records.
The central government’s move to put the state governments also in the scam was completely opposed by all the concerned state governments including those ruled by the Congress, stating that it was entirely the responsibility of the former to allot the blocks and the latter have no role in the same.
The UPA government has been in the middle of so many scams involving lakhs of crores of rupees including the 2G Scam. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been presiding over a scam tainted government. In the Coal Gate Scam, the Prime minister himself was the Coal Minister.
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