It is a great news that India has won the Gold Medal, defeating all the superpowers of the world. Yes. This distinction has been achieved by India in the matter of GDP growth. In the first quarter of the current financial year of 2020-21, India’s GDP decline is the biggest in the world. India’s GDP growth is (-)23.9%. Among all the counties in the world, only China has recorded a positive GDP growth of (+)3.2%, whereas all other countries have recorded negative growth. The following is the GDP growth of other countries.

India          :        (-) 23.9%

Britain        :        (-) 20%

France       :        (-) 13.8%

Italy            :        (-) 12.4%

Canada      :        (-) 12%

Germany    :        (-) 12.1%

USA            :        (-) 9.5%

        Japan         :        (-) 7.6%

Tata Teleservices, the telecom unit of Tata Sons, is preparing to close down it's business. With a debt burden of Rs.30,000 crores, Tata Teleservices is unable to sustain, in the ongoing cut-throat competition. In it's 149 years of history, this is the first time that a major unit of the Tata Sons is getting closed down. The Company is preparing various schemes for the termination of the services of it's employees, including the issuing of notices to it's employees, varying from 3 months to 6 months. Severance packages and voluntary retirement scheme, are the other routes.

Com. P. Abhimanyu, GS and Com. Ramesh Chand, Org. Secretary (CHQ), met Shri A.M. Gupta, GM(SR), yesterday and demanded that the 36^th meeting of the National Council should be conducted in the month of March, 2018. They pointed out that only one meeting of the National Council has been held after the 7^th Membership Verification, and demanded that, atleast hereafter the National Council meeting should be held once in three months. The GM (SR) assured to take needful action to hold the NC meeting in March, 2018.

The General Secretary and Dy.General Secretary, who met Shri A.M. Gupta, GM(SR) today, urged upon him for the early conducting of the Standing Committee meeting. The representatives pointed out that it is already more than a month since the 36th meeting of the National Council was held, and told him a review of the implementation of the decisions taken in the meeting has become due. The GM (SR) assured that the meeting would be conducted early.

As per the data released by the TRAI, Reliance Jio has beaten Airtel and has become the second biggest Company in terms of AGR (Adjusted Gross Revenue) for the quarter ended in June (for the period of  April, May, June). AGR is the revenue earned by a Company from the services it gives. According to the data of the TRAI, the AGR of Reliance Jio grew by 14.6%, while the AGR of Airtel has gone down by 5.1%. But, the most interesting news for us is that, BSNL is the only telecom company, other than Jio which has recorded growth in it’s AGR. BSNL’s AGR has grown by 6.8% amounting to Rs.2,273 crore. Vodafone’s AGR has gone down by 9.2% and IDEA’s AGR has gone down by 7.2%.

[ Source : The Economic Times ]

The AUAB, Andhra Pradesh circle, has submitted memorandum to Shri Kesineni Nani Garu, Hon’ble MP, from Vijayawada. Details of the charter of demands contained in the memorandum were explained to the Hon'ble MP. Thanks and congrats to the AUAB of Andhra Pradesh circle.

A protest demonstration was organised at CGMT office, West Bengal circle yesterday, demanding appropriate action on those who are responsible for the lapses, which led to the fire accident, which has taken place in the Nodal Center, EZBC at Salt Lake, Kolkata on 23^rd July, 2019. The programme was jointly organised by CGMT(Office) & Kolkata SSA district union. The meeting was initiated by Com. Sujoy Sarkar, District Secretary, CGMT (Office), District. Com. Amitava Chattopadhyay, Asstt. Circle Secretary and others addressed and demanded immediate action. Com. Banani Chattopadhyay, President, BSNLEU, WB, presided over.

Rumours are being spread that, BSNLEU will not get the status of the "Main Recognised Representative Union" this time. This is totally wrong. According to the Recognition Rules, BSNLEU will once again get the status of the "Main Recognised Representative Union" and NFTE will get the status of “Second Recognised Representative Union.” Further, as per the votes secured by both the unions, BSNLEU will get 8 seats in the Councils and NFTE will get 6 seats.

Com.Animesh Mitra, Secretary General, BSNL CCW and Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, BSNLEU met Shri P.K. Purwar, CMD BSNL, today and presented a memorandum on the issues of the contract workers. Both the representatives urged upon the CMD BSNL to release funds for payment of wages of the contract workers. They also requested the CMD BSNL to review the retrenchment of contract workers. They demanded that the BSNL Management should continue with the present Labour Contract System, instead of switching over to the Job Contract System. The CMD BSNL replied that he would look into the issues.

The lockdown has set off a banking revolution. Irrespective of which bank you have an account with — in a city or a village without a branch—you can call the local post office and ask it to deliver cash. In as little as 10-15 minutes, the postman or postwoman will reach your home. For this, you need not have an account with the post office.

Between March 24 and April 23, post offices across India delivered Rs 412 crore in over 21 lakh such transactions, mostly in rural and unbanked areas, through a network of 1.36 lakh post offices which have been equipped with 1.86 lakh handheld AePS devices.

[Courtesy : Times of India.com dt. 25-04-2020]

AUAB की आज एक ऑनलाइन बैठक आयोजित की गई । जिसमे AUAB से जुड़े सभी प्रमुख संगठनों ने जैसे BSNLEU, NFTE, SNEA, AIBSNLEA, FNTO, BSNL MS, SNATTA, BSNL ATM, TEPU और BSNL OA के  प्रतिनिधियों ने भाग लिया।  इस बैठक में BSNL के 4 G टेंडर को रद्द करने पर सभीने अपनी नाराजगी जताई तथा रोष व्यक्त किया गया।  पुनर्जीवन (Revival) पैकेज में दिए गए आश्वासनों के कार्यान्वयन में देरी और BSNL की सेवाओं की गुणवत्ता में आई भारी गिरावट को भी गंभीरता से लिया गया।  निर्धारित तारीख पर वेतन का भुगतान न होना, साथ ही कर्मचारियों के लिए कैशलेस मेडिकल उपचार की व्यवस्था न होना, वह भी ऐसे समय में जब COVID ​​-19 तेजी से फैल रहा है, ऐसे लगता है कि यह जानबूझकर किया गया था।  आखिर में, सभीं ने मिलकर बैठक में एक आंदोलनकारी कार्यक्रम (Agitational Program) करने का निर्णय किया हैं।  इस संबध में AUAB द्वारा  एक विस्तृत परिपत्र (Circular) कल जारी किया जाएगा।

Sometime back, the Andhra Pradesh circle was bifurcated into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana circles. In continuation of this, employees were compulsorily transferred from Telangana circle, for manning the newly formed CGM office of Andhra Pradesh circle at Vijayawada. Now, again the Management wants to transfer more employees from Telangana circle to the CGM office at Vijayawada. BSNLEU, Telangana circle has strongly opposed this, because sufficient number of employees, from the neighbouring districts of Vijayawada, are willing to move and work in the CGM office. However, without considering the requests of such willing employees, the Management wants to transfer employees from Telangana to Vijayawada in AP circle. Hence, BSNLEU, Telangana circle, has warned the Telangana circle administration, that it would be compelled to launch serious agitations, if the Management goes ahead to transfer employees compulsorily.

Today’s Times of India has reported that the RSS is greatly annoyed with Virjesh Upadhyay, the General Secretary of BMS, and it is on the way of removing him from the post. The anti-BJP and anti-Modi government stand, being taken by Virjesh Upadhyay is said to be the reason, as per the report. However, fact remains that the BMS, which claims to be the biggest trade union in India, has dissociated with other Central Trade Unions. BMS did not join the last two General Strikes that had taken place in 2015 and 2016, opposing the anti-worker and pro-corporate policies of the Modi government. Further, the BMS also did not participate in the historic “Mahapadav” that shook Delhi on 09^th, 10^th & 11^th November, 2017. Both these struggles were organised by the entire Central Trade Unions. The BMS did not participate in these struggles, because both the BMS and the BJP belong to the RSS family. Despite this being the fact, even one or two speeches made by Virjesh Upadhyay, General Secretary of BMS, criticising the policies of the Modi government, are not acceptable to the RSS. RSS claims itself to be a “non-political”, “cultural” organisation. As such, why it should intervene in the functioning of a trade union?

India is one of the greatest civilisations of the world. The country has given birth to many great geniuses, who have made great achievements in the fields of astronomy, medicine, literature,etc. However, it is regrettable that the BJP ministers are continuously engaged in distorting our ancient history and achievements, to fulfil their political agenda. We have seen how one Central Minister said that, Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’ was wrong. He had said that  our ancestors did not say anywhere that, man had come from apes. Again, Harsh Wardhan, the Union Minister of Science, has done a similar gimmick now. According to him, Stephen Hawking, the world renowned scientist who passed away recently, has stated that what was written in our Vedhas, are even superior to the theory of Albert Einstein. That particular equation of Einstein, which the Minister referred to, denotes the equivalence of mass and energy. Interestingly, when the media persons present in the event, asked the Minister to mention the source for Stephen Hawking’s claim, he was not able to give any reply. If the Minister wants to glorify the Vedhas, certainly he has the liberty to do that. But, he should not make statements, which are not true. This will make the world laugh at us.

The circle executive committee meeting of Andhra Pradesh circle is held in Vijayawada in a jubilantly.  More than 250 comrades, including 50 lady comrades, participated. The meeting was presided over by Com. K.Prabakar Rao, Circle President. Com.N.Ramarao, DS, Vijayawada, welcomed everyone. Com.S.Chellappa, AGS, addressed the meeting and reported on the decisions of the Agartala CEC meeting. He also explained about the government's Neo-Liberal Policies, Wage Revision and the Subsidiary Tower Company issues. Discussion took place on the report submitted by the Circle Secretary. A Seminar on "Revival of BSNL and Draft National Digital Communication Policy was held. Shri Y.Ravindrnath, GM(HR) and Com. P.Asoka Babu, Vice-President (CHQ) spoke on it. The CEC meeting was also addressed by Com.K.Dharmarao, CS, BSNLCCW, Com.Ramadevi, Member, BSNLWWCC and Com.K.S.C.Bose, CS,AIBDPA.

ऑल यूनियन्स एंड एसोसिएशन्स ऑफ बीएसएनएल (AUAB) वेज रिवीजन, पेंशन रिवीजन और बीएसएनएल के रिवाइवल से जुड़े अन्य महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दों के निराकरण हेतु सतत रूप से प्रयत्नशील है। *यह AUAB द्वारा किए गए संघर्षों का ही परिणाम है कि माननीय संचार राज्य मंत्री वेज रिवीजन का मुद्दा कैबिनेट से अनुमोदित करवाने के लिए सहमत हुए हैं। AUAB द्वारा किए गए निरंतर प्रयासों की वजह से ही नॉन एग्जीक्यूटिव्ज की वेज रिवीजन वार्ता लगभग अपने अंतिम चरण में पहुंच चुकी है।* AUAB द्वारा माननीय संचार राज्य मंत्री द्वारा दिए गए आश्वासनों को त्वरित इम्पलीमेंट कराने हेतु जुलाई 2018 में तीन दिवसीय क्रमिक भूख हड़ताल की गई थी। AUAB के लीडर्स ने 01.08.2018 को माननीय संचार राज्य मंत्री से पार्लियामेंट में मुलाकात कर त्वरित कार्यवाही की मांग भी की थी।

इस संबंध में आगामी कार्यक्रम की रूपरेखा तय करने हेतु AUAB की 08.10.2018 को मीटिंग होने जा रही है। इसी बीच कुछ दुष्प्रचारक तत्व कर्मचारियों को भ्रमित करने के लिए झूठ और अफवाहें प्रसारित कर रहे हैं। BSNLEU द्वारा लगातार अपनी वेबसाइट के माध्यम से वस्तुस्थिति (सच्चाई) से अवगत कराया जा रहा है। परिमंडल व जिला सचिवों से आग्रह है कि वें सभी कर्मचारियों को सत्य स्थिति से रूबरू कराएं।