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TODAY, THE KARNATAKA CEC MEETING WAS HELD IN BANGALORE. COM. P GANGADHARA RAO, CIRCLE PRESIDENT HITHERTO RESIGNED FROM THE POST CONSEQUENT TO HIS ELECTION AS OUR GS. SENIOR LEADER COM. VIRUPAKSHAIAH HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE CIRCLE PRESIDENT IN HIS PLACE. COM SHREEDHAR OF BELLARY IS ELECTED AS VICE PRESIDENT IN THE PLACE OF COM. VIRUPAKSHAIAH, VP TILL THE DAY.
The District Conference of Bangalore SSA was held today. More than 550 members participated. Newly elected CHQ office bearers from Karnataka - Com. P Gangadhara Rao GS, Com. G Babu VP and Com. Radhakrishna, AGS - were felicitated on the occasion.
Comrades K Ranganayakulu, R Janrdhana Rao and Deepak are elected as District President, District Secretary and Treasurer respectively.
Today, the Budaun (UP WEST) branch held a meeting. Com. Gautam Kailash (CS) and Com. R C Sharma (Circle VP) addressed it.
Mother in Law of Com. D Gopalakrishnan expired today. She was 93. The funeral will take place in a village near Guduvancherry, outskirts of Chennai city tomorrow on 28-12-2018 after arrival of some relatives from other places.
CHQ conveys heartfelt condolences to Smt. Gomathy Gopalakrishnan and other members of the family..... PSR
According to the notification issued by Pr. CCA Mumbai, the Comprehensive Pension Management System will be launched by Honourable Prime Minister of India on 29-12-2018.
In this connection two documents released by Dept. of Telecom are given below.
Dear Comrades,
The Comprehensive Pension Management System (CPMS) is being inaugurated formally on 29-12-2018. CCAs are organizing some function in every Circle in the afternoon of 29, December 2018. Our leaders are called upon to attend the function, understand the system properly to enable them help the pensioners in future.
When a new system is introduced, there will be some teething trouble. We should point out the difficulties.
There is lot of complaint that even now many Post Offices are not crediting the enhanced IDA promptly. When CPMS is in operative, the CCAs will be crediting the pension and DA etc directly to the account of the pensioners. So, there may not be any delay in getting IDA, provided the CCA office is efficient.
Pensioners will receive their pension from the Bank or the Post Office as the case is now.
…P S Ramankutty...
We are happy to note that a new branch has been formed at Bareilly, in UP west in a meeting held on 26-12-2018. Com. Kailsah Gautam (CS) and Com. R C Sharma (Circle Vice President) attended the meeting and explained the various issues. Comrades A R Arya, B R Verma and R P Singh are elected as District President, District Secretary and District Treasurer of Bareilly respectively.
ON 26-12-2018, OUR CHQ HAS WRITTEN THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO Smt.. SUJATA T RAY, DIRECTOR (HR), BSNL.
Our CHQ has requested the authorities to honour the recent judgement from the apex court in favour of the section of pensioners who retired from service on 31-12-2015.
In 1990, the new cadre of Phone Mechanic was introduced.Gr. D officials, on qualifying in the departmental examination and completion of due training were promoted to the PM cadre. In Tamilnadu circle, for want of vacancies some of such officials could not be given the promotion. As decided in JCM DC they were temporarily posted as Linemen and promoted to PM later on. The pay drawn in LM post was taken while fixing their pay in PM cadre and subsequently in the pension also. But, recently the Pr. CCA of Tamilnadu circle arbitrarily reduced their Last Pay Drawn and Pension. CHQ has taken up the case.The letter from CHQ is attached hereunder.
The All India conference of BSNLEU held at Mysuru, Karnataka has concluded electing unanimously Com. Animesh Mitra of West Bengal as President, Com. P Abhimanyu of Pondicherry as General Secretary and Com. Gakul Borah of Assam as the Treasurer.
We congratulate them. We hope that they will pursue the resolution passed by their Ghaziabad CEC meeting demanding pension revision of BSNL retirees at par with other central service pensioners covered by CCS Pension rule 1972 without waiting for wage revision of serving staff in BSNL.
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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LETTER WRITTEN BY COM. GANGADHARA RAO, CONVENER OF COMMITTEE OF BSNL/MTNL PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
DEAR COMRADES,
WE ARE HAPPY TO NOTE THAT THIS TIME LARGE NUMBER OF OUR BRANCHES OBSERVED THE PENSIONERS DAY, EITHER ON 17-12-2018 ITSELF OR ANY OTHER CONVENIENT DAY, TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF THE LANDMARK JUDGEMENT GIVEN BY SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ON 17-12-1982 AND TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE GRATITUDE TO THE PERSONS WHO GAVE THE GREAT SERVICE TO INDIAN PENSIONERS SOCIETY THROUGH THE SAID JUDGEMENT.
IN ANDHRA, OUR COMRADES OBSERVE THIS DAY IN A NOVEL WAY, ORGANIZING CHARITY SERVICE. THEY VISIT ORPHANAGES, POOR HOMES, OLD AGE HOMES, BLIND SCHOOLS ETC. AND DISTRIBUTE CLOTHES, UTENSILS, MEDICINES, FRUITS AND OTHER MATERIALS REQUIRED BY THE INMATES OF SUCH INSTITUTIONS.
Hereunder we are giving some photos received from branches:.......PSR
AGRA
AJMER
ANANTHAPUR AP
ARA BIHAR
BHUBANESHWAR
BHAVNAGAR
BHIMAVARAM AP
BILASPUR CGT
COIMBATORE.....GS SPEAKS
COM. NATARAJAN SPEAKS IN CHENNAI
CALICUT: GS SPEAKS
DHANBAD
ELURU
ERNAKULAM: PENSIONERS DAY AND RECEPTION TO ALL INDIA LEADERS
ERNAKULAM: GS SPEAKS. COMS. PSR, RADHAKRISHNA, SARASWATHY, PADANAIR etc ARE ON THE DAIS
HYDERABAD: COM. VARAPRASAD, DY GS SPEAKS
INDORE MP
JAMSHEDPUR
JABALPUR MP
KANCHEEPURAM: Coms Thangaraj, G Natarajan and V Rathna and others
KAVALI AP, MATHURA UP
KOTTAYAM: AGS COM. RADHAKRISHNA SPEAKS
KURNOOL AP
MANGALORE
NAVANSHHR PB
NAGERCOVIL
NAGPUR
PATNA
RAJAHMUNDRY AP
SALEM WEST
SAMBALPUR
TANUKU AP
TIRUPATHI AP
THANJAVUR
UJJAIN
VIJAYAWADA: DESPITE HEAVY RAINS...
VISAKHAPATNAM
WEST BENGAL
RETIRED, BUT NOT TIRED
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COMMITTEE OF BSNL/MTNL PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS HAS WRITTEN THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO THE NEW ADDITIONAL SECRETARY, TELECOM ON PENSION REVISION IN BSNL AND MTNL.
Click here to read the letter cbmpa-letter-to-a.s..pdf
PENSIONERS’ DAY: 2018
On 17.12.1982, the Supreme Court of India pronounced its landmark judgement in D S Nakara vs. GOI case. A Bench of SCI headed by the then Chief Justice Y V Chandrachud, J.D A Desai, J. O Chinnappa Reddy, J. V D Tulzapurkar and J. Bahrul Islam gave the classic judgement which is relevant even today. The judgement tells a lot beyond the particular issue,because Late Shri H D Shourie raised many basic issues concerning pension in their Affidavit.The Judgement said:
1) Pension is neither a bounty nor a grace
2) Pension is not an ex gratia payment
3) Pension is a social welfare measure
4) It creates a vested right subject to 1972 rules which is statutory in character
5) A pension scheme must enable the pensioner live from want and with decency and self respect…
EFFECT OF THE CASE:
a) Till then there was no pension revision in central services. From 1986 onwards the pension revision came into effect.
b) While Sri Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister (1984-89) a new Ministry of Personnel was created to take care of pensioners.
c) A new Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare was created
d) Standing Committing of Voluntary Agencies was introduced to discuss the pension related issues of central service staff. Now SCOVA is not effective.
e) Pension Adalat was introduced.
f) Administrative Tribunals were started to quickly hear and dispose the cases of central govt employees and pensioners, though it failed in recent time.
g) Fifth CPC gave ‘complete parity’ and ‘modified parity’ in pension fixation.
h) Sixth CPC and Seventh CPC also granted parity to the old pensioners.
Let us remember these while observing Pensioners Day on 17-12-2018. Let us pay our homage to late Shri D S Nakara (some people write as Nakra, which is not correct) and late Shri H D Shourie and also to the eminent Judges.
….. PSR
Belgaum, Hublid-Dharwad and Raichur branches of our association in Karnataka accorded very affectionate reception to Com. Gangadhara Rao (GS) and to Com. Radhakrishna (AGS) last week. Com. R Changappa, CS KTK also attended these meetings.
Few photos:
It is quite heartening to note that Chandigarh SSA Unit in Punjab has added 141 life members.
Congratulations to Chandigarh comrades,
Congratulations to Punjab circle comrades.
OUR HYDERABAD DISTRICT SECRETARY INFORMS THAT THE DISTRICT UNIT HAS CROSSED LIFE MEMBERSHIP OF 1900.
THERE IS NO ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP. 100% LIFE MEMBERSHIP. CONGRATULATIONS TO COMRADES OF HYDERABAD.
Dept of Telecom issued the official minutes on the talks held between the Minister Shri Manoj Sinha and the AUAB leaders on 3-12-2018. Regarding Pension Revision to BSNL retirees w.e.f 1-1-2017 the Minutes says:
“Minister emphasized that follow up action should be expeditiously taken…”
There is no commitment on the fitment formula or anything related to that. However,
- We can confidently say that there is a positive shift in the attitude of Minister and DOT towards our pension revision. This is most welcome.
Pay Revision in BSNL may take some more time. But, before that, the DoT may move the file for pension revision. So, DoT admits that pension revision can be done without Pay Revision. In effect, Pension revision is delinked from Pay revision. This is the victory of pensioners.
I have no doubt that it is the result of mass FAST all over the country on 22-11-2018 and the unity of BSNL/MTNL pensioners and formation of Committee of BSNL/MTNL Pensioners’ Associations (CBMPA).
Even if DoT proposes delinking pension revision from pay revision the DoPW has to approve it. Then the proposal has to be approved by other nodal ministries/departments also. Then only the DOT will prepare the cabinet note and submit to the Cabinet. These procedures cannot be avoided. It should happen before Lok Sabha elections are announced.
Elections are in May 2019. Code of Conduct may be imposed in March or April 2019. Code of conduct should not come in our way.
We must continue our efforts to get Pension revision with CPC fitment benefits; not only for BSNL but for the MTNL pensioners also.
We should not criticize anybody for posting their views/understandings in the whatsapp groups. Understanding may differ sometimes. We are all human beings.
We are thankful to AUAB for raising the issue of de-linking of pension revision from Pay Revision.
Same time, we should strengthen our unity and organize further programmes under the banner of the new united forum- CBMPA.
We have placed a new unique demand. It is a new concept; it is a new path. It is not that easy to get something new approved by the authorities.
We have to cross many a hurdles. We have to cross many bridges.
Who started first and who joined later is not an issue. Destination is important.
We want a permanent solution to the problem. Most significant is that the File has started moving. We shall get pension revision. That will be the VICTORY of all BSNL/MTNL pensioners.
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