With profound grief we report sad demise of Com. K. Venkateswarlu, our District Secretary of Kurnool in AP Circle on 8-11-2016 in a hospital in Secunderabad due to liver and heart problems. He was 69. We lost a very dedicated and active leader.

We convey our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members of Com. Venkateswarlu.

If Shri Manoj Sinha, MOC, confirms his participation, we will change the programme accordingly.

THE ORDER ON CDA RATE FROM 1-7-2016 IS GIVEN IN PAGE DA:

Welcome to Special Victory Conference at Bangalore

Accommodation:

..1..Comrades coming from Chennai and Tamil Nadu will be accommodated at Shri Ramanshri Convention Hall (the same hall arranged earlier for at the time of all India conference very near to Cantonment railway station. The accommodation will be available from 11th evening to 12th evening

..2.. Arrangement for all other circles and CWC members, accommodation is made at Patel Bhavan (the same hall arranged earlier for at the time of all India conference very near to Cantonment railway station The accommodation will be available from 11th evening to 13th evening.

To make arrangement a success, all the delegates should intimate the Reception team their arrival and departure details immediately

Venue

The special conference will be held at Sheesh Mahal, gate No 7, Palace Grounds Bellary Road about a km distance from Cantonment railway station.The special conference will start at 10 am on Saturday 12th as notified.Almost all the trains except trains terminating at Yeswantpur, stop at Bangalore Cantt RS. Bengalore city Railway Station is just 5 km away.

Weather in Bangalore

The weather now is pleasant and comfortable .

Volunteers

Please get down at Bangalore Cantt station and meet the volunteers at the main exit gate in platform No 1.Volunteers will be available in Bangalore City and Yeshawantapur railway stations depending upon requirement.

Food

Breakfast and lunch for all the comrades attending the special conference has been arranged at the venue of the conference (Sheesh Mahal, Palace grounds)

Contact Numbers of Reception Team

President :G Babu. 9448040355, Email gbabublr@gmail.com

Circle Secretary :R. Changappa 9448353132/ 08023353132, Email Changappa25@gmail.com

Transport convener :Ganeshan - 9449034300, ganesh.shanthi.333@gmail.com

Accommodation convener: Subramanyam - 9449026622, subramaniam6622@fmail.com

Please contact the above conveners for any requirement regarding transport, accommodation or for any information needed

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Now it is for you to act.

Circle Secretaries may please inform the Number of comrades attending the above conference.

Shri Ananthkumarji has given his consent to attend the Conference.,

We have invited Shri Manoj Sinha, Honourable Minister for Communications also. We are awaiting his confirmation.

Yours sincerely,

G. Natarajan,

GS

PROGRESS IN 78.2% CASES

We have already reported about the work done by our Madurai comrades in settling 78.2% case. It is not repeated here. There are reports from other SSAs of Tamil Nadu saying that the cases are being processed with utmost priority.

Salem: 380 pre-2007 cases and 584 post-2007 cases are being finalized.

Trichy: 345 pre-2007 cases and 324 post-2007 cases are being finalized.

Cuddalore: 140 pre-2007 cases and 331 post-2007 cases are being finalized.

Karaikudi: 101 pre-2007 cases and 225 post-2007 cases are being finalized.

Dharmapuri: 69 pre-2007 cases and 97 post-2007 cases are being finalized.

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District Secretaries of other SSAs are called upon to meet the concerned Account Officers and pursue the matter. Else there will be delay. We are observing that instructions from BSNL Corporate Office are not given due importance by field offices of BSNL.This is the new work culture.

Shri Ananthkumar, Honourable Minister for Parliamentary Affairs will attend the Open Session to be held at 4 PM on 12-11-2016 in Sheesh Mahal, Palace Grounds, Bangalore in connection with our ensuing CWC meeting.

Other details about the arrangements made for stay of CWC members, the programme of the meeting etc. will be intimated through this website shortly.

Madurai (Tamil Nadu) is our biggest branch in the entire country with 1500 members.

Com. G R Dharmarajan is the District Secretary. Regarding the 78.2% case he reports:

1.The Madurai SSA office sent 522 pre-2007 cases to Pr. CCA, Tamil Nadu on 13-09-2016.

CCA office has issued authorization letters in all the 522 cases. More than 100 Pensioners received their copies too.

2. Madurai SSA office has forwarded 620 post-2007 cases also to CCA office on 31-10-2016.

We congratulate Com. Dharmarajan and his team who are doing very systematic work.

Today, the Union government approved 2 per cent dearness allowance and relief benefiting about 50.68 lakh employees and 54.24 lakh pensioners. The decision to provide 2 per cent DA on basic pay was taken by the Cabinet and will be effective from July 1, 2016.

For the last many years, the CDA increase from July was used to be announced in September, This time it is delayed by one month. In fact, the quantum of increase is quite unsatisfactory. See the calculations given below:

Earlier Basic Pay (under 6th CPC): Rs 10000. CDA increase as per old formula: 7% =

Rs 700.00

New Basic Pay (under 7th CPC): Rs 25700.00 CDA @ 2%: Rs 514.00

Same futile action of sending reminders. Director (HR) of BSNL Board has once again written a reminder letter to all Circles not to delay pension cases. Instead of sending reminder after reminder the BSNL Board should take action against those who delay the Pension cases.

See the latest reminder...Inordinate delay in pension processing

Yesterday, on 26-10-2016, the Supreme Court of India delivered another landmark judgement.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said any employer paying less wages to temporary staff was indulging in an “act of exploitative enslavement”.

It has already been held that ‘equal pay for equal work’ is a constitutional principle, said the apex court. The court also decried any move to make differential treatment with temporary employees at times described as daily-wage employees, ad hoc appointees, employees appointed on casual basis, contractual employees and the like.

“It is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to deny fruits of labour. An employee engaged for the same work, cannot be paid less than another, who performs the same duties and responsibilities. Certainly not, in a welfare state. Such an action besides being demeaning, strikes at the very foundation of human dignity,” a bench of Justices J S Khehar and S A Bobde said.

The court said any one, compelled to work at a lesser wage, does not do so voluntarily as he has to provide food and shelter to his family “at the cost of his self respect and dignity, self worth, and his integrity.”

“Any act, of paying less wages, as compared to others similarly situate, constitutes an act of exploitative enslavement, emerging out of a domineering position. Undoubtedly, the action is oppressive, suppressive and coercive, as it compels involuntary subjugation,” the bench said.

FEW PHOTOS

DS Com. Ramalingam speaks

Com. Natarajan, GS speaks

Dr. Niranjana, Pr. CCA addressing

Guntur branch held a general body meeting on 25-10-2016.

Com. M R S Prakasa Rao (Circle President) and Com. K S Koteswara Rao (Circle Secretary)

attended and spoke on the current issues.

SAD NEWS

Com. R V Ramaiah, our Assistant Circle Secretary of AP Circle breathed his last today early morning at Vijayawada. He was 78. Com. Ramaiah was an active, dedicated comrade of our Association.

We convey our heartfelt condolences on the demise of Com. Ramaiah.

Karim Nagar branch in AP Circle organsied a victory celebration meeting on 23-10-2016.

Com. T P George, Circle Secretary reports:

Kerala Circle Adalat was conducted by CCA at Tiruvalla today.Circle President (Com. Pada Nair), Circle Secretary (T P George), District Secretary (Com. PMG Menon) and others represented our Association. Out of 19 items taken up, 16 were settled. Some information of general nature of the discussion is:

1.78.2% Cases: There are 8000 cases in total in circle.2500 cases have been received by DoT Cell from SSAs so far. 825 cases have been settled and authorization issued. The SSA-wise figures will be uploaded in the Website of Kerala CCA shortly. Priority is given to pre-2007 cases. Remedial action will be taken to avoid delay in the ‘dispatch section of DoT Cell’.

2.CCA will take up with concerned Postal authorities to avoid delay in grant of enhanced rate of IDA by post offices.

3.Extra increment cases: action is being taken to give the benefits to those pensioners placed in similar situation.Service books are required from the SSAS. Reminder will be sent to SSAs on the matter.

4. Action will be taken to improve the Website of CCA.

Com. R L Kapoor reports from New Delhi that the Anomaly Case was posted for today. But, as expected, it was once again postponed to 16-12-2016. This will be repeated again and again till our turn comes.

Dept of Telecom has issued fresh instructions that the corresponding Pay Scales and Grade Pay should be recorded in the PPO so that there should not be any problem in determining the rate of premium to be paid by the willing officials who want to avail the CGHS Facilities.

To see the order click here:cghs..ppo.pdf