In the General Body meeting held on 30-6-18, under the Presidentship of Com Ram Ji Dubey and in the presence of Com. J S Dahiya AGS CHQ , a New Circle of UTTARAKHAND has been formed as 23rd Circle Unit of our AIBSNLPWA. Com Ram Ji Dubey, Gopal Dadar, Dhan Singh Gosain have been unanimously elected as Circle President, Circle Secretary and Circle Treasurer respectively.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

On 22-11-18 itself Com. D Gopalakrishnan and myself gave this letter to Member (F) and discussed with her. Since no action has been taken till now , as a reminder we gave a copy of that letter but with dt.. 4-4-19.

15337.pdf

P Gangadhara Rao GS

Circle Conference of Assam Circle was held at Guwahati under the Presidentship of Com. M R Das. About 100 Delegates/ Observers attended the Conference.

Coms. Manoranjan Das ,Shyamalendu Bhattacharjee, Pradip kr. Bhagabati have been unanimously elected as Circle President, Circle Secretary and Circle Treasurer respectively.

CHQ congratulates the newly elected Office Bearers.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

Circle Executive Committee meeting of Punjab Circle was held on 5th April.2019 at Patiala. The meeting was attended by about 125 members from 11 SSAs of Punjab Circle . The membership of the Circle has risen to 1800. The meeting was addressed by Mr Subharao a prominent social worker and freedom fighter. All the district secretaries participated in vibrant deliberations. The gathering was addressed by Com Bajwa CS, Com Anupam Kaul, AGS and Com Atma Ram OS(CHQ). Com Sharma Circle Treasurer presented the accounts. Com Anupam Kaul in his adress deliberated on all issues including pension Revision. SSA representatives who enrolled maximum members were felicitated. Com Saini Circle President thanked the members

A new edition of a telephone directory of AIBSNLPWA Punjab was released . AGS Anupam kaul read out Com General secretaries messege to C E C .

DPE HAS ISSUED ORDERS FOR REVISION OF IDA @ 141.4% PAYABLE FROM 01-04-2019.

Click here ida-april-2019.pdf

Today (4-4-19) , I met Smt. Anuradha Mitra , Member (F) along with Coms. Changappa CS and Ganeshan CT at BANGALORE in the office of CCA KTK.

At the outset, I Congratulated her for having launched the SAMPNN successfully . While giving a good feedback from the Pensioners who are getting Pension directly from CCA including sending SMS etc. , we expressed still our concern about a) getting form 16 and b) givinglife certificate. Smt. Linda DDG Accts. explained regarding Digital Life Certificate and Form 16. Member (F) assured that required care will be taken so that no Pensioner will be put to any difficulty.

OTHER ISSUES DISCUSSED.

1). Family Pension case of Smt. Manonmani, Thanjavur.She assured that action will be taken to settle it immediately.

2) Arbitrary reduction of LPD of those in the scale of 2550-2750 by CCA TN.

She told that a policy decision has to be taken.

3). Grant of minimum Pension of 9000/-

She told that for this also a policy decision has to be taken.

We requested her to do what ever is required from her side.

Finally I requested her to take initiative to solve our PENSION REVISION issue from 1-1-17. She told that this is in the domain of Member (S). When she was mentioning that DOP&PW hasn't taken any decision still , I explained the actual position and made over the copies of our letters to Secretary , Pension on 14-12-18, to JS , Pension on 12-2-19 and DOP&PW letter to DOT on 8-3-19.

We made out a point that DOT Establishment section is not taking the required action. In DOT, if anyone feelsthatthe hike given to us at the time of absorption and according to 2nd PRC isto be adjusted in future revisions , we will not allow it. We should continue to draw higher Pension for all the times to come.

At the end , we requested her to take the initiative as theCUSTODIANof BSNL/MTNL Pensioners in DOT and sort out our PENSION REVISION issue at the earliest.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

CONGRATS TO COM. V VARAPRASAD & HIS TEAM.

AP Circle was bifurcated into AP & TELANGANA on 22-1-17. AP Circle has increased its membership from 3890 to 6373 by its FIRST BIENNIAL CIRCLE CONFERENCE on 1-4-19 at Rajahmundry. Hats off to CS & his team for this great achievement.

The hall was fully packed with over 650 Delegates and Observers from all the 13 SSAs.

Com. D Gopalakrishnan VP , P Gangadhara Rao GS and V Rama Rao Asst . Treasurer CHQ & President TN Circle graced the occasion and addressed the house.

East Godavari , the host Branch made excellent arrangements for accommodation, meeting venue and food.

Coms. MRS Prakash Rao, KS Koteswara Rao ( Ex CS , Telangana ) ,V Varaprasad and S Venkatappaiah have been unanimously elected as Hon. President, Circle President, Circle Secretary and Treasurer respectively for the next two years term.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

Our Advocate Shri Sreeraj informed that reply from Respondents has been received in r/o OA No 338/18 .

Now both cases 338/18 & 346/18 stand adjourned. We have to wait for the date of listing.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

Our CHQ TREASURER Com Vittoban is shifting his residence.

All CSs are requested to ensure that CHEQUES, MONEY ORDERS, DDs, REGISTERED LETTERS etc are NOT SENT to his existing address by any one from their circles, till further information. New address will be intimated to you after his settlement there.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers - AICPI (IW) FOR FEBRUARY 2019 remained stationary and stood at 307.

Therefore We are entitled for 2.6 % IDA increase from 01-04-2019.

Total IDA will be 141.4%