Jagdeep Dhankar, the governor of West Bengal has stunned the nation by saying that the arrows of Arjun of Mahabharat had nuclear power. It is a tragedy that, the governor has made this brilliant statement while inaugurating a science fair in Kolkata.  

[Source: The Times of India dated 15.01.2020]

Girish Chandra Murmu, who was the Lt. Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, resigned that post all of a sudden a few days back. Today he was sworn in as the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India. It is important to note that Girish Chandra Murmu is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, Girish Chandra Murmu was also brought to the Centre. He was the Secretary of the Department of Expenditure, before his appointment as the Lt. Governor of Jammu & Kashmir. The job of the CAG is to audit all the accounts of the Central and State Governments.

The year 2017 is coming to an end. The year has been eventful for the BSNL employees. They took to the struggle path, to fight against the denial of 3rd wage revision. Two glorious strikes have taken place, demanding settlement of wage revision. This is the year in which the unions and associations buried their differences and decided to fight unitedly, under the single banner of "All Unions and Associations of BSNL". This is also the year in which the unions and associations of BSNL decided not to surrender in the matter of Subsidiary Tower Company, even after the Union Cabinet decided to form the same. Above all, even when big private telecom companies, like Vodafone and Idea run 'helter skelter', BSNL continues to add 20 lakh new mobile customers every month, and challenge Reliance Jio. While bidding good bye to 2017, we resolve to step into 2018, carrying forward all it's positivities.

It is shocking to note that the biggest bank of the country, State Bank of India, went into a loss of RS.2416 crore, in the quarter ended December,2017. In comparison, State Bank of India earned a net profit of RS.1582 crore in the previous quarter ended September, 2017. What has gone wrong with the SBI ? It must be noted that in 2017 alone, the SBI has written off an amount of RS.20,339 crore as bad loans. This is the amount borrowed, mostly by the big corporates and not repaid. Bad loans, created by the big corporates, is the real disease which ails the government banks.

Recently, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused in the Parliament that, the policies pursued by the previous Congress led UPA government was responsible for the huge amount of bad loans, which is killing the government sector banks. It is correct. At the same time, the present Narendra Modi government is also equally responsible for this. The Congress party led government helped the big corporates to get huge loans from Public Sector banks. Now, the BJP led government, instead of making the corporates to repay the loans, allow them to escape, by writing off those loans. Why the Narendra Modi government is not taking action against the big corporates, who are cheating the Public Sector banks, and swindling thousands of crores of people’s money?

The meeting of the AUAB, held on 24.04.2018, has called on the employees to conduct powerful street corner meetings from 07^th to 11^th May, 2018, against the anti-BSNL policies of the government and demanding the rolling back of the Subsidiary Tower Company. The AUAB has issued a joint circular, requesting the employees to conduct the programme effectively, giving guidelines for the programme.

Due to unavoidable circumstances, the dates of the forthcoming All India Conference, to be held at Mysuru, have been changed. The new dates are 8^th, 9^th, 10^th & 11^th January, 2019. All comrades are requested to kindly make note of the change in dates. As usual, the pre-All India Conference CEC meeting will be held on 07^th January, 2019. CEC members are requested to book their journey tickets accordingly.

18.02.2019 से तीन दिवसीय हड़ताल- हड़ताल की सफलता हेतु रूपरेखा तय करने के लिए आपातकालीन (इमरजेंसी) सर्किल और डिस्ट्रिक्ट एग्जीक्यूटिव कमिटी की मीटिंग आयोजित करने के CHQ के निर्देश..

AUAB द्वारा तीन दिवसीय हड़ताल का आव्हान किया गया है, जो 18.02.2019 से शुरू होगी। इस हड़ताल के लिए बेहद गंभीरता के साथ तैयारी करना होगी। अतः हड़ताल की सफलता हेतु प्रभावी रूप से योजना बनाने के लिए CHQ निर्देशित करता है कि BSNLEU की सर्किल और डिस्ट्रिक्ट एग्जीक्यूटिव कमिटी की  मीटिंग शीघ्र आयोजित की जाए। चूंकि ज्यादा समय शेष नही है, सर्किल और डिस्ट्रिक्ट एग्जीक्यूटिव कमिटी की मीटिंग, आपातकालीन मीटिंग के रूप में आयोजित करें। मीटिंग की रिपोर्ट CHQ को प्रेषित करें।

The Prime Minister’s Office is holding a meeting today, to discuss about the revival of BSNL and MTNL. This news has already come in the media. The CMD BSNL also confirmed this to Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, in the meeting held yesterday. The Digital Communications Commission (DCC), the erstwhile Telecom Commission is already handling the issue of revival of BSNL and MTNL. Under these circumstances, the reason and purpose for holding such a meeting by the PMO is not known. May be, the PMO is not satisfied with the handling of this issue by the DCC and the DoT.

The AUAB, in it's meeting held yesterday, has decided to seek a meeting with Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Ji, Hon'ble Minister of Communications and IT, to discuss about the revival of BSNL. Accordingly, the AUAB has written the letter today.

The 8th Membership Verification campaign meeting was held on 29.08.2019, at GM office, Ongole. Com. Venkaiah, District President, presided and Com. Nageswara Rao, District Secretary, welcomed. The meeting was addressed by Com. J. Sampath Rao, AGS & CS, Telangana Circle, Com. P Asoka Babu, Circle Secretary A.P. Circle, Com. K Rama Devi, Vice President(CHQ), Com. K Prabhakara Rao, Circle President, Com. P. Akbar Basha and Com. L. Ramesh Babu, ACS and Com. Yasin.  The leaders addressed the meeting and explained about 8th membership verification, the financial revival of BSNL, Wage revision, Pension revision, Land monetisation, VRS, 58 years, etc., a large number of comrades especially women employees from Ongole District participated in this meeting.

It has been decided to hold a meeting of the K.G.Bose Memorial Trust at New Delhi, on 26.11.2019. The meeting will be held at K.G.Bose Bhawan and will start sharply at 10:00 am. All members of the Trust are requested to attend the meeting without fail. Separate intimation letters are being sent to the Trust members.

The Additional Sessions Judge in Delhi has told the Delhi Police that, they are behaving as if Jama Masjid is in Pakistan. The judge has made this observation because, the Delhi Police had arrested Chandrashekhar Azad, the Chief of Bhim Sena, on 20^th December, 2019, for making a speech at Jama Masjid, against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The judge asked the Delhi Police, what is wrong with organising dharna? The judge further stated that the right to protest is one’s constitutional right. The judge also echoed the feeling of the citizens by stating, “people are out on streets, as what should have been said inside Parliament was not said”.

[Source: The Economic Times dated 15.01.2020]

1. Com.Nageshkumar Nalawade - Rs.10,000/-

2. Com.John Verghese - Rs.5,000/- 

3. Com.Kumbhare - Rs.5,000/-

4. Com.Kolhe Chandrapur - Rs.5,000/-

5. Com.Ulhas Paigude - Rs.3,000/-

6. Com.Yusuf Hussain - Rs.2,500/- 

7. Com.Amita Naik - Rs.2,020/- 

8. Com.Ganesh Hinge - Rs.2,000/- 

9. Com.M R Shinde – Rs.2,000/-

10. Com.Kautik Baste - Rs.2,000/-

11. Com.T.M. Sadanandan – Rs.2,000/-

12. Com.Vilas Savade – Rs.2,000/- 

13. Com.Mahesh Arkal – Rs.2,000/-

14. Com.Shilpa Sawant - Com.2,000/-

15. Com.Lalu Kondalwade – Rs.1,500/-

16. Com.Madhu Sisodia – Rs.1,111/-

17. Com.Balakrishn Kasar – Rs.1,111/-

18. Com.Madhavi Mane – Rs.1,111/-

19. Com.Praful Pendurkar – Rs.1,000/-

20. Com.Santosh Chachad - Rs.1,000/-

21. Com.Anant Vaidya - Rs.1,000/- 

22. Com.Diwate, Satara - Rs.1,000/-

23. Com.Krishnakant Angre - Rs.1,000/-

24. Com.Hema Ramkumar - Rs.1,000/-

25. Com.LashmiVenkatesh - Rs.1,000/-

26. Com.Yashwant Kekre - Rs.1,000/-

28. Com.Ashwini Gupte - Rs.1,000/- 

29. Com.Subhedar Satara - Rs.1,000/-

30. Com.Rajendra Lahane - Rs.1,000/- 

31. Com. Vidya Sonawane - Rs.1,000/-

32. Com.NareshKumbhare - Rs.1,000/-

33. Com.Devidas Vergude - Rs.1,000/-

34. Com.Pimplkar, Retd.SDE - Rs.1,000/-

35. Com.Arun Ugle - Rs.1,000/-

36. Com.Sanjay Nagpure - Rs.1,000/-

37. Com.Srikanth Pandit - Rs.1,000/- 

38. Com.Satish Devkar – Rs.1,000/-  

39. Com.Narayan Bodas – Rs.1,000/- 

40. Com.SudhirDeshpande – Rs.1,000/-

41. Com.Sampath Argade – Rs.1,000/- 

42. Com.Mamta Wadhwa – Rs.1,000/- 

43. Com.Rajesh Srivastva – Rs.1,000/-

44. Com.Arun Suryavanshi – Rs.1,000/-

45. Com.Srikanth Pandit – Rs.1,000/-

46. Com.Amarnath chahun – Rs.1,000/-

47. Com.Lala Sheikh – Rs.1,100/- 

48. Com.Ravindra Patil – Rs.1,000/-

49. Com.Nyaneshwar Bhor – Rs.1,000/-

50. Com.A.R.Wagchaure – Rs.1,000/- 

51. Com.Suresh Warungse – Rs.1,100/- 

52. Com.B.D. Ramchandre – Rs.1,000/-

53. Com.Vishmbhar Kadu – Rs.1,000/-

54. Com.Chandorkar – Rs.1,000/-

55. Com.Dilip Devkar – Rs.1,000/- 

56. Com.S.R .Pandey – Rs.1,000/-

57. Com. Vinod Meshram – Rs.1,000/- 

58. Com.Anil Patil – Rs.1,000/- 

59. Com.Sharad Rahat – Rs.1,000/- 

60. Com.Ajay Phadke – Rs.1,000/- 

61. Com. Manesh Nikam – Rs.1,000/- 

62. Com.Avinash Londhe – Rs.1,000/- 

63. Com.Sandip Gulanjkar – Rs.1,100/-

64. Com.Madhura Savardekar – Rs.1,000/-

65. Com.Bharti Wagadare – Rs.1,000/- 

66. Com.Pradeep Betkar – Rs.1,000/-

As a part of BSNLEU’s decision to observe the Birth Centenary of Com.K.G. Bose, Com.P.Abhimanyu, will be addressing the Facebook live at 7 pm tomorrow the 09-08-2020. Circle Secretaries, CHQ office bearers and District Secretaries are requested to ensure that a maximum number of comrades view this live address of the General Secretary.

BSNLEU, Tamil Nadu circle union and TNTCWU are jointly conducting agitation, against non-payment of wages to the contract workers. These two unions have taken this issue to the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner. The Dy.CLC has written to the CGM, Tamil Nadu circle, and has stated that the onus to ensure payment of wages to the contract workers, is exclusively on the Principal Employer, and that failure to make payment by the 7th of every month, may result in a penalty of maximum 10 times of the actual wages.

The final meeting of the Designations Committee was held on 26.09.2017, in which the new Designations of the left out Non-Executive cadres were finalised. However, while releasing the minutes of this meeting, the Management Side inserted a paragraph, wherein it is stated that the job description (duties and responsibilities) could also be changed, due to the change in designations. This was strongly protested by GS, BSNLEU, since such a condition was neither discussed in the meeting, nor accepted by the Staff Side. BSNLEU gave a complaint to the Director (HR), protesting the unfair practice of the Management. Consequent to this, a meeting of the Designations Committee is convened today. Com. P. Abhimanyu, GS and Com. Balbir Singh, President, participated. Com. John Verghese, AGS, was present as observer. Representatives of BSNLEU strongly objected to the manipulated draft minutes, released for the meeting held on 26.09.2017. Consequent to this, it was decided in today’s meeting, to release the minutes, by deleting the above stated paragraph. It is also decided in today’s meeting that, the Technician Grade II (Telecom Factory) is to be redesignated as Telecom Technician.

As per the study of the French Tech Firm, Capgemini, the number of High Networth Individuals (HNI) in India has increased by 20% in the year 2017. An High Networth Individual is defined as the one who is having investable assets of over 1 million US Dollars. According to this report, the number of such Dollar Millionaires in India comes to 2.6 lakh people. Their asset worth is a whopping 1 trillion US Dollars! It is also worth mentioning here that, the International Rights Group, Oxfam, has reported that in India, 73% of the wealth created in 2017, has reached the hands of the top 1% of the population, whereas the bottom 67 crore Indians have got only 1% of this wealth. This is how the Narendra Modi government is serving the poor people of this country.

(Source: Times of India dated 20.06.2018)

Shri George Fernandes, the trade union leader turned politician, has passed away yesterday. He will ever be remembered for leading the historic railway men's strike, that took place in 1974. Shri George Fernandes was the leader of the joint platform called NCCRS (National Coordination Committee for Railway Men's Struggle), which organised that strike, and which was brutally suppressed by the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi. BSNLEU pays it's homage to Shri George Fernandes.

Com. John Verghese, AGS, addressed a well attended verification meeting at Halasur Telephone Exchange, Bengaluru, yesterday the 30.08.2019. More than 100 comrades were present in the meeting. Com. Sadashivan, Branch President, presided. The meeting was also addressed by Com. Sudharshan, District Secretary, BGTD, Com. Irfan Pasha, CHQ Org. Secretary, Com.B.R. Krishna Murthy, ACS, Com. C.K.Gundanna, Circle Secretary. The leaders addressed, detailing about the necessity of revival of BSNL and reasons to oppose VRS etc.