We are happy to welcome the newly branch formed in Jalandhar district of Punjab Circle.

Comrades Rajkumar, R S Walia and O P Syal are elected as President, District Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

Com. G S Bajwa, Circle Secretary attended the formation meeting. held on 21-3-2017.

Madurai district branch in Tamilnadu also conducted a special general body to commensurate with the Womens' day

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BSNL-MTNL MERGER: WHERE IT STANDS?

According to the item appeared in the website of BSNLEU on 17-3-2017, the leaders of various organizations met CMD and discussed the matter. The report about the discussion is as:

[17.03.2017] Merger of BSNL and MTNL.

“Many rumours are doing the rounds among employees with regards to the merger of BSNL and MTNL. In view of this, the leaders who met the CMD BSNL today, raised the issue in the discussion. The CMD BSNL replied that he was not aware of any development on this issue. …..” (BSNLEU WEBSITE)

Then, read with the following news item appeared in PTI News on 19-3-2017

New Delhi: Amid renewed push for BSNL-MTNL merger, BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava has said the combination will be “advantageous” for both the state-owned telecom firms but issues pertaining to debt and salary structure will need to be sorted out first.

BSNL ASSETS: CMD informed the leaders as

“So far the Companies in India were following an Accounting Standard called GAP (General Accounting Principle). However, the Government of India has made it compulsory from this year onwards, that the Companies should follow a new Accounting Standard called Ind AS. As per this new Accounting Standard, a different methodology is to be adopted by the Companies, for calculating their net worth. Accordingly, the assets purchased by BSNL, after 01.10.2000, through the revenue it generated from it’s core business alone will be taken for assessing it’s net worth. At the same time, according to the new procedure, the value of the total assets of the Company, like land and buildings, will also figure in the account. For this purpose, BSNL has to bring in the value of it’s entire lands into the account. A consultancy, to be appointed by BSNL, probably KPMG, will assess the market value of these lands and will certify it. In this year’s account, BSNL’s lands worth atleast Rs.1,50,000 crore has to be brought into the account. And, this job has to be completed before 30th June, 2017. If BSNL’s assets worth Rs.1,50,000 crore figure in the account, it will greatly improve the image of the Company in the eyes of public.”

NITI AYOG Direction:

Niti Ayog (new version of Planning Commission) has listed BSNL and ITI for disinvestment.

PMO ASKS:

Prime Minister’s Office has asked the Department of Telecom what action the latter has taken on the direction from the Niti Ayog…..

When you read all the above items, you will come to some conclusion. Some very important structural change of BSNL can be expected….

The Thanjavur Disrict branch (Tamilnadu) of our Association organized a very special massive convention on 18-3-2017 in commensurate with International Womens Day. About 500 members including 250 ladies attended it. CGMT, TN, GM (Madurai) GM (Plng. TN Circle), GM Thanjavur as well as Com. D Gopalakrishnan and Com. V Rama Rao participated in addition to other leaders from Madurai, Tirunelveli etc.

On the occasion, Smt. K Poonguzhali, the CGM of Tamilnadu Circle and Smt S E Rajam (GM Madurai) were felicitated. The leaders of comrades led by A K Dhanapalan and K Swaminathan made all arrangements for the grand function.

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Salem West branch conducted a special meeting and obsevred International Womens Day, on 18-3-2017.

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A SPECIAL FUNCTION OF HOLI MILAN SAMAROH WAS CONDUCTED BY OUR MATHURA (UP WEST) BRANCH.

SENIOR MEMBERS ABOVE THE AGE OF 75 WERE HONOURED ON THE OCCASION.

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As already reported earlier, when we met Shri J S Deepak IAS, the then Secretary, Telecom on 22-2-2017, we brought to his notice inordinate delay in settlement of the revision process with 78.2% IDR even though the DoT had stipulated 31-12-2016 as the target date. Secretary admitted the delay and directed Member(F) to sit with DDG(Estt) to fix another date which should be practical but not far off.

Now, Member (F) of Telecom Commission has issued a new instruction fixing new date for the settlement of cases.

Pre-2007 cases : BSNL offices should send the cases to CCA offices latest by 15-3-2017 and CCAs should issue revision orders by 31-3-2017.

Post-2007 cases: BSNL offices should send the cases latest by 31-3-2017 to CCAS and the CCAs should issue orders by 10-4-2017.

See the letter from M(F) here:

Three new branches have been opened at Bijnore, Circle Office and Ghaziabad in our UP West Circle recently.

Comrades Dilawar Singh, Om Prakash Meena and Rajkumar are elected as President, Secretary and Treasurer of CGMT Office branch at Meerut.

Comrades Rohitash Singh, U P Gupta and Tarke Singh are elected as President, Secretary and Treasurer of Ghaziabad branch.

DOT HAS ISSUED ORDERS TODAY RAISING THE CEILING OF DEATH/RETIREMENT GRATUITY TO RUPEES TWENTY LAKH WITH EFFECT FROM 1-1-2016.

THE MINIMUM PENSION IS NOT RAISED. IT IS DELIBERATE.

To see the order click here: gratuity-20-lakhs.pdf

Within a few hours the historic strike of Central Government Employees including GraminDakSevaks, Casual, Part-Time, Contingent, Daily rated and Contract workers will begin. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from North East to Gujarat the strike will be a thundering success. It is an outburst of anger and protest against those who betrayed the central government employees and pensioners.

NDA Govt’s Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Shri ArunJaitley and Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu cheated and betrayed the cause of 33 lakhs Central Govt. Employees and 34 Lakhs pensioners.

Justice is on our side

Betrayers are on the other side

Ultimate victory will be ours as we believe in

HAPPY HOLI TO ALL OUR VIEWERS.

.... ... ... ... ... ... ... CHQ TEAM

Palakkad branch held a meeting of its District Executive committee on 11-3-2017 during the visit of Com. P S Ramankutty on his return to Trivandrum from Coimbatore.

A picture shows the Executive committee members attending.

COIMBATORE BRANCH HELD A GENERAL BODY MEETING ON 11-3-2017.

COM. P S RAMANKUTTY, ALL INDIA PRESIDENT ADDRESSED THE MEETING.

A view of the Audience:

VISAKHAPATNAM MEETING HELD ON 11-3-2017. COM. M R S PRAKASA RAO (CP OF AP),

COM. VARAPRASAD,CS OF AP AND COM. K S KOTESWARA RAO, CS OF TELENGANA ADDRESSED.

A general body meeting was held by Nagpur branch on 11-3-2017 in CTO Dormitory Hall. Com. R H Mitkary, All India Vice President, Com. M J PIllay, CS of Maharastra and Com. Jiddewr, DS addressed the meeting and explained the status of various issues.

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FREE NIGHT CALLS.....

BSNL Corporate Office has issued orders making calls made between 9 PM and 7 AM from the Rent free Residential telephones of BSNL retirees also free.

Lease click to see the order free-night-calling.pdf

Com.K. Santhanagopal, Vice President of our Thanjavur district unit (TN) reports:

On 18-3-2017, the District branch will organize a special meeting, celebrating the International women’s Day. Comrades D Gopalakrishnan, K Muthiyalu, V Rama Rao and N Mohan will attend it on behalf of our Association along with leaders of the District. On behalf of the BSNL following senior officers are also expected to participate:

1. Ms. P Punkuzhali ITS, CGMT TN

2. Ms. S E Rajam ITS, GM Madurai

3. Sri. P V Karunanidhi ITS, GM (P), TN

4. Sri C V Vinodh ITS, GM Thanjavur

Ms. Punkuzhali ITS, the CGMT will be conferred a special award of “Noblest Head” on the occasion. Debate will take place on “Women’s role in development of BSNL”, and “Women’s role in Social Service”. Various issues concerning the BSNL pensioners will also be discussed in the afternoon.

THEIR WORK IS NEVER FINISHED

THEIR WORK IS NEVER MEASURED

THEIR WORK IS NEVER RECOGNIZED AS WORK

THEY NEVER GOT ANY SALARY

NEITHER ANY PENSION EVEN AFTER 60-70 YEARS "QUALIFYING SERVICE".

AND

THEY DO NOT EXPECT ANY RESPECT FROM YOU.

THEY JUST WANT YOUR LOVE, AFFECTION AND CARE

PLEASE GIVE IT

ACCEPT HER AS A HUMAN BEING WITH FEELING,

DESIRES AND HOPES....

News:

J .S. Deepak IAS, Secretary, Telecom is abruptly transferred to Commerce Ministry. Mr Deepak is in Barcelona now, attending an international conference there.

New Delhi: The hasty removal and transfer of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) secretary J.S. Deepak – a government official who has been closely associated with the telecom department for seven years now and has butted heads with Reliance Jio and TRAI over the past year – will only serve to further muddy the waters for an industry wracked by recent allegations of crony capitalism and favouritism.

A new branch is formed in Ballari SSA of Karnataka. Com. K G Deshpande, AI Org. Secretary and Com. Changappa, CS of Karnataka addressed the formation meeting. CHQ welcomes the new branch.

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