We are excited to announce that our Visakhapatnam SSA unit has enrolled 210 new Life Members this month. Congratulations to the leaders of our Vizag branch. They have already crossed the life membership of 1000.

Kerala Circle unit of AIBSNLPWA is organizing Dharna in front of all SSA offices on 26-2-2020 demanding:

1. Payment of Ex Gratia and other benefits offered to VRS optees without delay

2. Clear all pending medical claims from pensioners

3. Payment of medical allowance in full under BNLMRS to the pensioners.

KOTTAYAM

CALICUT

ERNAKULAM

PALAKKAD

QUILON (KOLLAM)

TRICHUR

TIRUR, MALAPPURAM

TRIVANDRUM

MALAPPURAM KERALA

Views of the special convention of VRS pensioners organized by our Chengelpet branch of Chennai TD circle on 24-2-21020. 130 VRS pensioners joined our organization in the said convention.

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Wet Bengal Circle Conference of our association was held on 12-2-2020 and elected Com. Ranjit Kumar Mukherjee as new President. Com. Dilip Kumar Deb is the new circle Secretary. Other office-bearers are;

Vice Presidents: Com Usha Ranjan Majhumdar, Com. S C Bose and Com. Mukul Kishore Das

Asst. Circle Secretary: Com. Dilip Kumar Paul\Treasurer; Com. Mrinal Kishore Das

Organizing Secretaries: Comrades. A K Ghosh, S R Dutta, Ranjit Das, R N Dutta, S K Banerjee,

S C Paul, Swapan Banerjee and Amit Banerjee.

NAGPUR ON 18-2-2020

ERNAKULAM ON 19-2-2020

GUNTUR KOTHAPET ON 19-2-2020

TIRUR MALAPPURAM 20-2-2020

VRS PENSIONERS RETIRED FOM TAMILNADU AND SETTLED AT PALAKKAD: ON 20-2-2020

ABOHAR PB

JANGAREDDYGUDEM, AP

ANANTHAPURAMU AP

JABALPUR

KATIHAR BIHAR

CHALLAPALLI VIJAYAWADA

For 14 years, the private Telecom mobile providers like Vodafone, Bharti Airtel etc. have been engaging Dept of Telecom in legal battle on the issue of AGR (Adjusted Gross Revenue) to be paid by them to the DoT. On 24-10-2019, the Supreme Court ordered that the companies should pay the dues with interest. It amounts to Rs 1.47 lakh crore.

Instead of paying the dues, the companies filed Appeal petition. Court rejected that. Again they approached the Court. They tried to pressurize the government also. Some Desk officer in Sanchar Bhavan, with consent of senior officers, issued an order that no coercive action should be taken to recover the amount from private companies.

On 14-2-2020, the Supreme Court pulled up the DoT and the private companies for disobeying its orders. Court said that they will face contempt of court case also. Justice Mr. Arun Misra was furious over the attitude of the DoT officers. Suddenly DoT withdrew the earlier instruction and asked the companies to pay the amount before 2359 hours on 14-2-2020.

Airtel may pay a portion on 20-2-2020 and rest before 17-3-2020, the date of next hearing of the case. Vodafone may not be able to pay the dues. It may withdraw from the mobile business in India even. Ambani’s JiO is waiting for the situation to grab the business. Will our BSNL management act now? It is a golden opportunity for them to increase the business attracting the 33 crore subscribers of Vodafone.

WE ARE GLAD TO SEE THAT OUR DEMAND FOR GRANTING PROVISIONAL PENSION TO ALL VRS OPTEES IS ACCEPTED BY DEPT OF TELECOM. WE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM MANY CIRCLES THAT BSNL OFFICES FAILED TO SEND THE HARD COPIES OF PENSION PAPERS TO CCA OFFICES PROMPTLY. NO DOUBT, THE VOLUME OF WORK IS HUGE. WE, THEREFORE, ANTICIPATED SOME DELAY IN GETTING PENSION BY THE VRS OPTEES WHO WERE SENT OUT OF THE OFFICE WITHOUT PAYING THEIR WAGES FOR DECEMBER 2019 AND JANUARY 2020.

HENCE WE TOOK UP THE MATTER WITH DOT. NOW, DOT HAS ISSUED ORDER TODAY APPROVING GRANT OF PROVISIONAL PENSION -- 50% OF THE LAST PAY DRAWN IN JANUARY 2020 - TILL REGULAR PPO IS ISSUED.

Our letters : Our Letters

THE ORDER IS ATTACHED HERE :provisional-pension-order-dated-140202020.pdf

We are receiving encouraging reports from all parts of the country about special meetings of VRS optees being held and their joining our Association. Some photos are given below. Some other photos received on mobile phone are not clear. Anyway it is quite inspiring that thousands of new pensioners have joined our Association.

ANANTHAPURAM AP

CHENNAI STR

CHENNAI TRAFFIC TN

CHIDAMBARAM TN

KHANNA PANJAB

RAICHUR KTA

RAJPURA PUNJAB

ROHTAK HARYANA

THANJAVUR TN

VELLORE TN

VILLIVAKKAM CTD

VIJAYAWADA AP

VISAKHAPATNAM

WARANGAL TELANGANA

BSNL LETHARGY

One again, BSNL has exhibited its lethargy despite all tall claims by new Head of the company. 77059 staff members have been thrown out of the offices on 31-1-2020 itself, very efficiently. But, two months wages are not yet paid to them even though the company has generated sufficient revenue during the period. The employees are frustrated very much.

PENSION

VRS pensioners expect their pension for February on 29-2-2020. Nobody is sure if they will get it on that day. Pension has to be paid by government. Respective CCA offices have to authorize the pension. Without the proper documents and checking up CCA office can not authorize it.

Earlier, pension was being paid in first month itself. There was no computer. There was no ERP; there was no SAMPANN; there were more staff those days. In the recent past, there was some delay. Since large number of people retired on the same day, it may not be possible to check all documents and authorize pension for all. It is understandable. At least, provisional pension can be sanctioned. Some of the retired Officers may wait. But the ordinary Group C and Group D Retirees want money immediately for their daily expenditure, especially as they have come out without getting wages for the two months they worked. If they do not get the promised pension, that too from the Govt; their frustration will be escalated. For granting provisional pension too, the CCA offices want some particulars from BSNL.

As on 6-2-2020, BSNL has forwarded only 25170 out of 77059 cases online to CCA offices. Just 33%.

51889 cases are still pending in BSNL offices. Worst is UP East with 96.98% pending in BSNL.

Then Maharashtra with 95.45% pending with BSNL.

ONLINE is not sufficient. Hard copies should also be submitted to CCA offices.

To See the details please lick here:status-6-feb-6-pm-1.pdf