The meeting of the Joint Committee on change of designations of the left out cadres was held on 26.09.2017. However, the minutes of this meeting is not yet released. The Management has inserted in this minutes, certain issues which are not at all discussed in the meeting. This tantamounts to manipulation. BSNLEU has protested this unfair practice and has demanded to release the corrected draft minutes. So far the Management has not corrected the draft minutes. BSNLEU has written to the Director (HR), seeking her intervention to resolve the matter.

BSNLEU has written to the Director (HR), seeking a formal meeting to discuss certain issues. These issues include those already discussed in the National Council meeting, on which action is not taken, and other issues are those which are already discussed many times with the Corporate Management.

The CHQ of BSNLEU has written to the Director (HR) regarding the problem of some officials who have gone out of their places of duty and are unable to join duty, due to the suspension of Air, Rail and all other modes of transport, under the lockdown. BSNLEU has requested the Management that, such of those officials who are unable to return to their places of duty, due to the imposition of the lock-down, should not be compelled to apply for their own leave. BSNLEU has demanded that the period of absence of the above mentioned category of officials, should be treated as “on duty”.

BSNL employees, posted in the Kashmir Valley, have been extended with certain concessions, at par with the Central Government employees. However, period for which these concessions were granted has got expired. Now, the DoP&T has issued letter, granting extension of time for these concessions. The DoT has also endorsed this letter. BSNL Management has to implement this letter of the DoP&T. Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, met Shri Sourabh Thyagi,GM(Estt.) today and requested him to endorse the DoP&T letter to the CGM,J&K circle. He handed over BSNLEU’s letter on this. The GM(Estt.) assured to do the needful.

On receiving the letter from BSNL CO, rejecting the demand of BSNLEU to conduct the JE LICE as an off line exam, BSNLEU has once again written to the Corporate Office, justifying it’s demand for an off line exam for the JE LICE.

The representatives of BSNLEU, who met the GM (FP) today, insisted for the implementation of the amendments to the JAO RR, as has already been demanded by BSNLEU. The Union has demanded the following amendments:- 

• Employees who have completed 5 years of requisite qualification should be allowed to appear in the JAO LICE, without insisting for 5 years of service in the 9020 pay scale;
• Upper age limit should be increased from 53 years to 55 years.
• The cut off date should be 1st July, instead of 1st January.

The GM(FP) who has recently taken over the charge of this portfolio,  assured to look into this and to do the needful.

The CHQ  has decided to hold a meeting of the Central Secretariat of the Union. The meeting will be held on 15.06.2020, through video conferencing. Com.Animesh Mitra, President, will preside over the meeting. The notification for the meeting has been issued.

The BSNL Management has already sent a proposal to the Recognised Unions, for abolishing the Civil / Electrical Local Councils. This issue was elaborately discussed in the Agartala CEC meeting of BSNLEU. Based on that deliberation BSNLEU representatives, who met Shri A.M.Gupta, GM(SR) today, firmly told that separate Local Councils for Civil / Electrical wings should continue, till the Civil / Electrical administrations are fully merged with the SSA administrations. The GM(SR) assured that the view of BSNLEU would be duly considered.

The Hon’ble CAT, Hyderabad Bench, has given judgement that officials who directly obtained degree, without completing 10+2 qualification, should also be permitted to appear in the JE LICE. This judgement is already implemented in the last JE LICE, in respect of the officials for whom the judgement was given. BSNLEU has written to the BSNL Management, demanding that this order of the Hon’ble CAT should be implemented for future JE LICEs also.  

It has been brought to the notice of the CHQ of BSNLEU that, the candidates who appeared in the JTO LICE, held on 26.05.2019, have faced certain difficulties. As usual, in this LICE also, there are many out of syllabus questions and wrong / ambiguous answers. Further, it is reported that the standard of the questions is very high. Hence, BSNLEU has written to the CMD BSNL demanding full marks for the wrong questions, questions which are out of syllabus and questions with wrong / ambiguous and multiple answers. BSNLEU has also demanded granting of marks for the questions which are beyond the Diploma Engineering standard.

Management has prepared the draft minutes of the meeting of the Joint Committee on Change of Designations of the Non-Executives, that was held on 26.09.2017. In that minutes, it is stated that the duties and responsibilities of the Non-Executives can be changed after change of designations. It is also mentioned in the draft minutes that this was mutually agreed to by, both the Management and Staff Side. Such a discussion has not at all taken place in the Joint Committee meeting, and the Staff Side has not agreed for any change in duties and responsibilities, after change of designations. BSNLEU has written to the GM (Restg.) protesting against this unfair practice of the Management Side.

So far as Punjab circle is concerned, a lot of court cases are going on in the matter of JTO LICE. Results of the JTO LICEs held in December, 2016 and May, 2019 have not been declared. Further, candidates qualified in the JTO LICE held in September, 2016 have not been sent for the training. Both the candidates, as well as the Company, are suffering due to the court cases. Under these circumstances, BSNLEU has written to the CMD BSNL, seeking his intervention to bring the court cases to an end, based on the affidavits already submitted by the candidates to the Punjab circle administration.

BSNLEU has written to the CMD BSNL, recording it’s resentment to the ambiguous reply given to the Hon’ble Minister in the Lok Sabha, with regards to the outsourcing of maintenance of BSNL 26,287 BTSs.

The Hon’ble CAT, Lucknow Bench, had given judgement for the conferment of Group B status and pay scale to the Sr.Accountants. There are only 32 Senior Accountants in service as of today. Instead of implementing the CAT judgement, the BSNL Management has gone on appeal in the Hon’ble Allahabad High Court, against the Hon’ble CAT judgement. BSNLEU has written to the Director (HR) demanding withdrawal of this appeal, and to confer Group B status and pay scale to the Sr. Accountants.