We convey our Republic Day Greetings

to all our Members and Friends.

The East Godavari District conference was held at Rajahmundry on 23-01-2016. About 250 members from all the eight branches attended.Com. D Gopalakrishnan (VP), Com. V V S Murthy (AGS) and Com. N Adinarayana ( Org. Secretary) participated on behalf of CHQ.Com. K S Koteswara Rao, Circle Secretary also addressed the meeting.

Shri K Srinivasa Rao, young energetic GM of EG Dist while addressing the conference assured prompt action to settle the grievances of pensioners. It is worth noticing that Shri Srinivasa Rao takes utmost interest in getting sufficient funds for BSNLMRS in the district.

Conference unanimously elected Comrades S K Basha, K BhaskarRao and A V Bappi Raju as President, Secretary and Treasure of the District Unit.

It is understood that the Department of Telecom is processing the File, containing the Cabinet Note, on 78.2% case for the signature of the Minister for Communications . Before it goes to the MOC, the File has to be signed by many officers like DDG, Member (F), Member(S), Additional Secretary, Secretary etc. etc. It is Government business.

Once the Minister signs it then the Cabinet Note will be submitted to the Cabinet Secretariat.

It is reported that the Ministry of Law has conveyed their comments to Department of Telecom on the Cabinet Note for extending benefit of 78.2% IDA in pension revision. It is being studied by the Directorate of DoT.

Details are awaited.

BSNL Retirees of Mahabubnagar District in Andhra has formed a new branch of AIBSNLPWA.

Com. Shankar Rao is the President, Com. Bala Swamy is the Dist Secretary and Com. J V Rao is the Treasurer. With this, AP Circle has formed branches in all the SSAs.

Congratulations to AP Circle and Mahub Nagar comrades.

The Relief Committee in Chennai met today in presence of Com. Natarajan, Com. DG etc. and assessed the situation.The Committee has received about Rs 8.48 lakh as donations.50% of the donations has been utilized to compensate partially the loss of BSNL pensioners affected by the floods. And the other 50% was utilized to give relief to the Schools and Institutions which take care of poor and destitute children.Details will be published soon after finalizing the accounts and getting it audited.

Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications was in Ujjain yesterday, 17 January 2016. On the occasion, our MP Asst Circle Secretary Com. Atneriya and Ujjain District Secretary Com. Prabhakar Sharma met him and submitted a memorandum on 78.2% case. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji told them that the matter has already caught his attention and a decision would be taken very soon.

On 13-1-2016, Government decided to set up a high-powered panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which will have bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners. The Cabinet has approved the setting up of Empowered Committee of Secretaries to process the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission in an overall perspective, Parliamentary affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries will function as a Screening Committee to process the recommendations with regard to all relevant factors of the Commission in an expeditious detailed and holistic fashion, an official statement said.

The implementation of the new pay scales is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore on the exchequer in 2016-17. Subject to acceptance by the government, they will take effect from January 1, 2016. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said earlier that he was not worried about fiscal deficit and government would be able to meet its target despite additional outgo on account of higher pay.

As reported earlier, Mr Rajeshkumar, son of our Member Mr. Elumalai, in Chennai STR branch lost his life during rescue operations after the floods in the city. Our Association decided to purchase two National Savings certificates of Rs 50,000 each in the name of the two small children of late Rajeshkumar. In a touching function organised by STR branch today, the Certificates were handed over to Mrs. Rajeshkumar. Everybody was in tears.

Smt. Anbarasi, wife of deceased Sri Rajeshkumar was honoured with shawl. Members stood up in silence and conveyed their feelings.

Comrades D Gopalakrishnan, T S Vittoban, V Rama Rao, M Govinda Rajan, A Sugumaran, S Narasimhan etc. spoke on the occasion. Mr. Elumalai, father of the deceased, explained the pain he had undergone on those days and thanked the Association for the help extended.

Occasionally, I am sending Email to our active members and leaders conveying the latest developments with regard to 78.2% case etc. I have a limited number of Email ID only with me at present. Sending Email is cheap and easy.Information will reach the addressees very quickly also.

When you get an information you should convey the same to at least ten people.I can send Email to 2000 people.If all of you repeat it to ten people each or convey it through personal contacts then, 20,000 members will get the information.

If you are really interested to join this Group, please send your Email ID to me in the following Email address:

psramankutty@rediffmail.com

With Regards,

P S Ramankutty

Meeting of the committee to review BSNL MRS was held on 8th January under the Chairmanship of Shri S.K. Sinha GM (Admn).

From the Staff Side, Com. Chandeshwar Singh, General Secretary NFTE and Com. Abhimanyu General Secretary, BSNLEU attended. Both NFTE and BSNELU have reported briefly the discussion held.

Staff Side leaders raised the difficulties faced by the staff as

(1)None of the good hospitals are ready to provide treatment on CGHS rates which are very low.

(2)In New Delhi, Same hospitals are empanelled for corporate office and NTR but the similar treatment are not available for NTR staff. The management side reported that difficulties are arising due to delay in payment of bills of concerned hospitals by NTR management.

Finally it was decided

1. Collect information from other PSUs like Coal India, SBI, BHEL etc to study how those organizations are dealing with the Medical issues.

2.To explore the systems of Mediclaim through insurance companies. Study of financial impact and other aspects are needed.

NOTE: PENSIONERS ARE BEING IGNORED IN SETTLING CLAIMS OF MRS EVERYWHERE. THE STAFF SIDE LEADERS DID NOT CARE TO RAISE THE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF PENSIONERS.

Our Chennai TD Circle comrades distributed the Flood Relief materials to the 51 students, affected by the recent flood, of Chennai Primary School at Vyasarpadi, Chennai- 600039.

On behalf of flood Relief Committee Coms DG, Muthiyalu, A Sukumaran, V Ramarao, M Ghouse Basha, S Sampathkumar, P Satyanarayana and S Killivalavan distributed uniform to 128 girls & 92 boys studying in 6 th Std to 11th Std in Govt. Higher secondary school, Kovilambakkam in South Chennai. The school was affected in the recent flood. More than 1600 students are studying in the school. The management has identified 400 students who are affected and very poor. We distributed 220 uniforms and 400 pouch with pencil, scale, eraser, sharpner. The management was very helpful and requested to provide Mike and bell if possible. The committee members reacted positively. DG/ KM/ AS/ VR /MG and SK spoke and inspired the students to study well and develop social consciousness. AHM Mrs Indani presided the meeting and expressed heartfelt thanks. For this purpose we have spent nearly 1.15 lakhs. In North Chennai Coms GN, MGR & Kannappan are distributing Mat, School bag, stainless steel plates to School students and Mat, Blankets to old age home affected by recent flood which cost about Rs,30,000/-.

Com. S Appa Rao, Treasurer, West Godvari of AP circle informs that today he has transferred a sum of Rs 42000 towards Chennai floods Relief fund. Earlier, Bhimavaram branch of the same District sent Rs 12000.

Hence the total donation from the District is Rs 54000.-

DPE ORDERS DATED 4-1-2016 ON IDA RATE FROM 1-1-2016

Please click on the links given below

ida-01012016-2007.pdf

ida-01012016-1997.pdf

RAJASTHAN CIRCLE UNIT OF AIBSNLPWA HAS DONATED Rs 15000

Com. R C Malhotra, AGS reports from Delhi:

The Cabinet Note has reached Secretary, Ministry Law on last Friday.

He has to record his views on the File. It is pending for his action.