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Circle Executive of AP Circle is held at Kurnool on 20-11-2023. Com V Vara Prasad GS addressed , explained all the efforts of CHQ on pension revision , contents of PB CAT judgement . AGS Com M. Rajasekhara Reddy also addressed. Com K S Koteswara Rao presided, Circle Secretary's report and accounts by Treasurer are adopted. CEC hailed PB CAT judgement on pension revision and the subsequent efforts for its implementation.
On 15-11-2023, CHQ delegation consisting of President, General Secretary, Gangadhara Rao (Vice President), Anupam Kaul (Dy GS), J S Dahiya (Org.Secy) met Telecom Secretary and handed over the attached letter. ( link for the letter here letter-to-secretary-telecom-15112023.pdf
There is no guideline/benchmark for PENSION REVISION to BSNL/MTNL absorbed pensioners who are getting the pension from GOI.
Hence We request him to take a positive decision to implement Hon.PB CAT judgement taking it as a guideline/benchmark.
We again requested him not to go for appeal since many pensioners are 70plus. Telecom Secretary told that he would brief Hon MOC and seek his approval ; consult the nodal department i.e. pension department and take a decision.
V Vara Prasad // GS
Please click here for the copy :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eah5pDMEUi1MDatrKEZbjWFPcbNuFBjk/view?usp=sharing
As directed by Ahmedabad CWC, CHQ did some ground work regarding implementation of CAT verdict. After knowing that Conference of India mobile Congress is being held at Delhi fom 27th to 29th Oct 2023, myself and Com P Gangadhara Rao have reached New Delhi on 25th to take a chance of meeting both Secretary Telecom & MOC.
*26-10-2023*
We both along with Com Anupam Kaul Dy.GS met
1. Sri Neeraj Mittal, Secretary Telecom.
2. Sri Manish Sinha, Member , Finance
and
3. Sri. Ajay Kumar Sahu , Member, Services .
We requested the Officers to implement the judgement of PB CAT New Delhi without preferring an appeal in High Court.
After going through the operative portion of the Judgement, Secretary Telecom, Commented " It would help you ". But the mindset of other officers has not changed.
However, they have assured to examine the judgement and take a decision.
( L to R ) S/S V Vara Prasad GS, Anupam Kaul Dy GS, P Gangadhara Rao Vice President, Ajay Kumar Sahu Member ( Services), S K Jain , Director General, Telecom.
27-10-2023
Met Shri Ravindra Kumar Director (Pension), DOP&PW and ascertained that his office has received the certified copy of judgement from Establishment Section of DOT for their comments. He told that it is the prerogative of the administrative ministry to take a decision on implementation of CAT order. We requested him to actively involve in implementation of the same as DOP&PW is also a respondent in the petition.
After inauguration of conference of India Mobile Congress by Hon'ble PM, we tried our best to meet MOC but we could not succeed during the day. Late in the evening, we came to know that Minister will be leaving to Bhopal early in the morning of 28th.
Joint Letter to Secretary Telecom for implementation of Judgement of Hon'ble CAT Delhi on Pension Revision committee-of-bsnl-mtnl-3110.pdf
Shri Anupam Kaul DY GS , AIBSNLPWA has been unanimously co-opted as Vice-president Head quarters & NCR BHARAT PENSIONERS' SAMAJ (BPS) W.E.F 16-10-2023. Congratulations to Com Anupam Kaul.
Mangalore crossed 1000 membership , congrats to Karnataka leadership, Mangalore DS and his team, members
CEC meeting of MP Circle held on 27-10-2023 . Circle Secretary Com V S Thakur, Org. Secretary (CHQ) Com Saket Shukla addressed.
As directed by Ahmedabad CWC, CHQ did some ground work regarding implementation of CAT verdict. After knowing that Conference of India mobile Congress is being held at Delhi fom 27th to 29th Oct 2023, myself and Com P Gangadhara Rao have reached New Delhi on 25th to take a chance of meeting both Secretary Telecom & MOC.
26-10-2023
We both along with Com Anupam Kaul Dy.GS met
1. Sri Neeraj Mittal, Secretary Telecom.
2. Sri Manish Sinha,Member, Finance and
3. Sri. Ajay Kumar Sahu , Member, Services .
We requested the Officers to implement the judgement of PB CAT New Delhi without preferring an appeal in High Court After going through the operative portion of the Judgement, Secretary Telecom, Commented " It would help you ". But the mindset of other officers has not changed. However, they have assured to examine the judgement and take a decision.
( L to R ) S/S V Vara Prasad GS, Anupam Kaul Dy GS, P Gangadhara Rao Vice President, Ajay Kumar Sahu Member ( Services), S K Jain , Director General, Telecom.
27-10-2023
Met Shri Ravindra Kumar Director (Pension), DOP&PW and ascertained that his office has received the certified copy of judgement from Establishment Section of DOT for their comments. He told that it is the prerogative of the administrative ministry to take a decision on implementation of CAT order. We requested him to actively involve in implementation of the same as DOP&PW is also a respondent in the petition.
After inauguration of conference of India Mobile Congress by Hon'ble PM, we tried our best to meet MOC but we could not succeed during the day. Late in the evening, we came to know that Minister will be leaving to Bhopal early in the morning of 28th.
V Vara Prasad
General Secretary
Letter addressed to DOT pbcat-judgement-to-dot.pdf
Letter addressed to DOPimplement-pbcat-judgement-to-dop.pdf
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REPORT ON CWC AND THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY ON PENSION REVISION
cwc02oct2023.pdf
Our Case OA 338/2018 before CAT Ernakulam for 78.2% arrears for Pensioners from 01-01-2007 to 09-06-2013 came up on 03-10-2023 and again adjourned to 11-12-2023.
Secretary Telecom has been addressed to take a positive decision to implement the judgement of Hon'ble PB CAT Delhi without preferring an appeal letter-to-dot-on-cat-judgement.pdf
Hon'ble MOC has been requested to direct the DOT to revise the pension on par with the Central Govt Pensioners as per PB CAT's Judgement. moc-28092023.pdf
District Conference of Kamrup held on 21-09-2023 in the presence of Shalendu Bhattacharjee CS Assam. Office-bearers elected :
President : Com Tanju Sharma
District Secretary : Com Sachindranath Kakati
Treasurer : Com Dilip Kumar Sarkar
In the back ground of the Govt’s refusal to revise the pension with effect from 2017, we have filed the case in PB CAT Delhi on 10th September 2020. Our lawyers argued the case very well as per the inputs provided by Our CHQ President Com D Gopalakrishnan. This case was filed by the then General Secretary Com P Gangadhara Rao being he himself as applicant and Com P S Raman Kutty , Com Anupam Kaul, Com V Latha as co-applicants. It is a land mark judgement for BSNL pensioners. Our Case has been allowed by a judgement in our favour. CAT has upheld our view that the pension revision has nothing to do with pay revision of BSNL serving employees. It is now stands delinked. Today i.e 20-09-2023 is a good day for all BSNL Pensioners. The success belongs to entire membership of our Association. This is very precious for all of us.
As Hon’ble MOC has already shared his view that the demand of pension revision is genuine and justified with us when we met him in March 2022 and has been assuring us on the pension revision in subsequent meetings with him, we are confident that he will direct the DOT officers to process the case for approval with out resorting to appeal against historic judgement of PB CAT Delhi today. DOT officers should atleast now accept the genuineness of our demand and submit the note for Cabinet’s approval without further loss of time.
We congratulate all of you and all BSNL/MTNL leaders of other Pensioners’ Associations who have also filed the case on similar lines and fought this legal battle so victoriously.
V Vara Prasad // General Secretary // AIBSNLPWA
PENSIONERS' PATRIKA September-October 2023 is posted to all subscribers today.
Click here to see the PP pensioners-patrika-2023-issue-no-5.pdf