A well attended campaign meeting was organised today at Balasore, Odisha. Com. Laxman Jena, district president, presided over. Com. Sisir Kumar Roy, Organising Secretary (CHQ), addressed the  meeting and explained about  3^rd wage revision, pension revision, 4G spectrum, pension contribution as per govt. rule, land monetisation, revival of BSNL, soft loan, subsidiary tower company, united movement, AUAB and predatory pricing by Jio. Com. Saroj Ranjan Das, CS, also addressed the meeting. Com. A Dhupal, Patron, Com. P Pradhan, DS/AIBDPA, Com. Haripada Das, DS/ETR, and Com. P K Nayak DS were present the meeting.

The Circle Executive Committee meeting of Maharasthra circle was held at Pune today.  Com.Appa Gagre, CP, presided over. Com. M.I. Jakati, DS, Pune, welcomed everyone. Com.N.K. Nalawade, CS and Com.John Verghese, AGS, addressed the meeting. Finally, Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, addressed the meeting and explained about the decisions of the Ghaziabad CEC meeting, BSNL’s revival package, VRS, one day General Strike on 08.01.2020, etc. He also replied to the questions raised by the comrade.

पेंशनर्स के संगठनों से निवेदन है कि वें आक्षेपित कर यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स के महत्व को कम न करें- AUAB के सर्क्युलर क्रमांक 110 दिनांक 07.02.2020 से उधृत...
BSNL में VRS अमल में आने के पश्चात पेंशनर्स के संगठन, VRS ऑप्टीज में से, अपने संगठन के नए सदस्य बनाने हेतु सक्रिय हो गए हैं। AUAB की मीटिंग में इस पर नाखुशी व्यक्त की गई कि कुछ पेंशनर्स संगठन नए सदस्यों को आकर्षित करने के उत्साह में यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स की महत्ता को कम करने में मशगूल हैं। उनका आक्षेप यह है कि, यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स निष्क्रिय हो चुके हैं और उन्होंने सरकार के खिलाफ कुछ नही किया है। यह भुलाया नही जाना चाहिए कि ये यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स ही है जिसने विगत कई वर्षों में कई बहादुराना संघर्ष  किए हैं और 78.2% IDA मर्जर, पेंशन भुगतान हेतु सरकार की 60% सीलिंग को हटाना और यूनियन कैबिनेट के सब्सिडियरी टॉवर कंपनी के निर्णय पर रोक लगाने जैसे मुद्दों का निराकरण किया है। सर्वोपरि, यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स ने निरंतर संघर्षों के जरिए BSNL को मुफ्त 4G स्पेक्ट्रम प्रदान करने हेतु सरकार पर दबाव भी बनाया है। इसके अलावा, यह यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स ही है, जो BSNL के सेवानिवृत्तों की पेंशन रिवीजन हेतु सतत रूप से लड़ाई लड़ रहे हैं। अतः, मीटिंग ने पेंशनर्स के संगठनों से निवेदन किया कि वें स्वयं संयम बरतें और यूनियन्स और एसोसिएशन्स पर आक्षेप लगा कर उनके महत्व को कम करने से बचें। 

The Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry has written to the CMD BSNL, yesterday the April 10, 2020. In it’s letter, the Deputy CLC has referred to the complaint received from TNTCWU (Tamil Nadu Telecom Contract Workers Union), over the non-payment of wages. The Deputy CLC has stated that non-payment of wages during the curfew period violates the provisions of the “Disaster Management Act” and has directed to sort out the issue immediately.

As per the opinion of medical experts, the crisis of Corona Virus Disease will continue for a few more months. Holding of meetings physically, will be not only difficult but also undesirable. Hence, the CHQ has decided to hold the All India Centre meeting once in a week through video conferencing. Similarly, the meetings of the forthcoming Central Executive Committee, Central Secretariat, BSNL Working Women's Co-ordination Committee will also be held through video conferencing, utilising the digital platform. Similarly, the CHQ will also help those circle unions which want to hold their Executive Committee meetings through video conferencing.

BSNLEU has already informed through website that settlement of this issue is lying pending with the DoT for a very long time, because BSNL has not provided the requisite inputs to the DoT. On hearing BSNLEU’s complaint, the Director (HR) seriously instructed the new GM (Estt.) to gather the requisite inputs from the circles and to send the same without delay to the DoT.

Holi is the festival of colours. Many colours come together and form a beautiful rainbow. Similarly, people of various regions, religions and languages come together to make this beautiful country called India. Maintaining and strengthening the unity of the people is the need of the hour. On this occasion of Holi festival, let us resolve to strengthen the unity and of the people. BSNLEU wishes all a very Happy and Colourful Holi.

The Street corner meetings, against the Subsidiary Tower Company, and against the anti-BSNL / anti-PSUs policies of the government are going on throughout the country. Some views of the programme are given below:-

Our government and it’s ministers are boasting that India is the fastest growing economy in the world. However, a vast section of the Indian people continue to reel under poverty, hunger, unemployment, etc., etc. Report after report are saying that crores of Indian children are malnutritioned and are stunted (children not with the normal height for their age). Once again The New Global Nutrition Report 2018 has stated that 46.6 million stunted children are living in India. This is 1/3 of the population of stunted children in the world.

दुष्प्रचारक तत्वों द्वारा फैलाई जा ही अफवाहों को फॉरवर्ड न करें...

दुष्प्रचारक तत्वों द्वारा प्रसारित अफवाहों के प्रति CHQ सभी कॉमरेड्स को आगाह करना चाहेगा। इन तत्वों के द्वारा AUAB, हमारी डिमांड्स और हड़ताल को लेकर कई प्रकार की अफवाहें प्रसारित की जा रही है। इन हड़ताल तोड़ने के उत्सुक तत्वों का उद्देश्य उस आंदोलन में सबोटेज करना है जिसके तहत कर्मचारियों को हड़ताल के लिए संगठित किया जा रहा है। CHQ का विनम्र निवेदन है कि इनके द्वारा फैलाए जा रही अफवाहों को प्रसारित कर इन्हें सहयोग न करें। ऐसा कोई भी मैसेज जो डिस्ट्रिक्ट और सर्किल यूनियन या सीएचक्यू द्वारा न भेजा गया हो, उसे किसी को भी फॉरवर्ड न करें। ऐसा करने से अफवाह फैलाने वाले अपने उद्देश्य में कामयाब नही हो पाएंगे। सीएचक्यू सभी कॉमरेड्स से सहयोग का अनुरोध करता है।

Alongwith other parts of the country, a powerful lunch hour demonstration was organised at BSNL Corporate Office today, against the government's proposal to implement VRS in BSNL. Members from BSNLEU, NFTE-BSNL, AIBSNLEA, BSNLMS, BSNLOA and BSNL-ATM participated in the programme. The meeting was presided over by com R.S.Chauhan, vice-president of BSNLEU(CHQ), as well as Circle Secretary of NTR. The meeting was addressed by Com Chandeswar Singh, GS, NFTE-BSNL, Com Swapan Chakraborty, Dy GS,BSNLEU, Com. Prahlad Rai, GS, AIBSNLEA, etc. 

Shri Elamaram Kareem, MP, has written a detailed letter to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister of Communications and IT, demanding the intervention of the government to ensure BSNL’s financial viability. The MP has also demanded that the decision of the Union Cabinet, taken in the year 2000, in respect of ensuring BSNL’s financial viability, should be ensured.

10 unions and associations, under the banner of the AUAB, have issued notification to the Secretary, Telecom and the CMD BSNL, for organising a 3 day relay hunger strike from 20th November, 2019. The demands include immediate payment of salary for October, 2019, remittance of recoveries, payment of wages to contract workers, immediate starting of 4G service, settlement of the problems arising out of VRS, no rolling back of retirement age, merger of DA pending  Pay Revision, pension revision, road map for maintenance of services after VRS, etc. Since time at our disposal is very less, all circle and district secretaries are requested to take immediate steps, by coordinating with the other constituents of the AUAB, for effectively organising the relay hunger strike.

Circle and district secretaries are requested to make maximum mobilisation for successfully holding tomorrow’s lunch hour demonstrations, as called on by the AUAB. Report and photos may please be e-mailed to the CHQ promptly. Demands for the demonstration:-

1. Immediate payment of salary for the months of December, 2019 & January, 2020, as well as prompt payment of salary every month.
2. Immediate clearance of the dues, already deducted from the salaries of employees.
3. Immediate launching of BSNL’s 4G service.
4. Immediate granting of sovereign guarantee for issuing of bonds by BSNL.
5. Immediate withdrawal of notices issued under FR 17 (A).
6. No whimsical transfer of employees, consequent to the implementation of VRS.

The medicine Hydroxichloroquine is being most talked about now. The US President, Donald Trump, has announced that Hydroxichloroquine cures the Corona Virus Disease. Under these circumstances, the Government of India has placed order for production of Hydroxichloroquine. However, the order has been given to two private companies. But the government has not given order to the Public Sector Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BCPL). It is very important to note that Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., which was established by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, first produced Quinine in India. Even when the human beings are facing the biggest crisis, created by Corona Virus, the government is not giving up it’s pro-private and anti-PSU Policy.

In the Udala Branch of Baripada district, Odisha circle, relief materials were distributed to contract workers, as per the call of BSNLEU. 10 contract workers received the relief materials worth Rs.1,000/- each. Com.Tarun Kumar Nayak, Branch Secretary and Com.Rama Ch. Hembram, Branch President and other comrades participated in this programme. 

BSNLEU की CEC मीटिंग 10 और 11 सितंबर, 2020 को ऑनलाइन आयोजित की जाएगी....
आज ऑनलाइन आयोजित, BSNLEU के ऑल इंडिया सेंटर मीटिंग ने निर्णय लिया कि BSNLEU की सेंट्रल एग्जीक्यूटिव कमिटी की मीटिंग, 10 और 11सितंबर, 2020 को   आयोजित की जाएगी।  लॉक डाउन और आवागमन पर अन्य प्रतिबंधों के चलते यह CEC मीटिंग ऑनलाइन आयोजित होगी। इस मीटिंग में शामिल होने वाले सेंट्रल एग्जीक्यूटिव मेंबर्स को, नियमानुसार, स्पेशल कैज्युअल लीव की पात्रता होगी।