District Conference of Kamrup held on 21-09-2023 in the presence of Shalendu Bhattacharjee CS Assam. Office-bearers elected :

President : Com Tanju Sharma

District Secretary : Com Sachindranath Kakati

Treasurer : Com Dilip Kumar Sarkar

In the back ground of the Govt’s refusal to revise the pension with effect from 2017, we have filed the case in PB CAT Delhi on 10th September 2020. Our lawyers argued the case very well as per the inputs provided by Our CHQ President Com D Gopalakrishnan. This case was filed by the then General Secretary Com P Gangadhara Rao being he himself as applicant and Com P S Raman Kutty , Com Anupam Kaul, Com V Latha as co-applicants. It is a land mark judgement for BSNL pensioners. Our Case has been allowed by a judgement in our favour. CAT has upheld our view that the pension revision has nothing to do with pay revision of BSNL serving employees. It is now stands delinked. Today i.e 20-09-2023 is a good day for all BSNL Pensioners. The success belongs to entire membership of our Association. This is very precious for all of us.

As Hon’ble MOC has already shared his view that the demand of pension revision is genuine and justified with us when we met him in March 2022 and has been assuring us on the pension revision in subsequent meetings with him, we are confident that he will direct the DOT officers to process the case for approval with out resorting to appeal against historic judgement of PB CAT Delhi today. DOT officers should atleast now accept the genuineness of our demand and submit the note for Cabinet’s approval without further loss of time.

We congratulate all of you and all BSNL/MTNL leaders of other Pensioners’ Associations who have also filed the case on similar lines and fought this legal battle so victoriously.

V Vara Prasad // General Secretary // AIBSNLPWA

PENSIONERS' PATRIKA September-October 2023 is posted to all subscribers today.

Click here to see the PP pensioners-patrika-2023-issue-no-5.pdf

Formation day .... Cuddalore ..... 26-08-2023

Formation day .... Chidambaram ..... 27-08-2023

HISSAR - HARYANA - 28-08-2023

VIRUDHNAGAR - TAMILNADU 26-08-2023

RAMNAD AND SIVAGANGA - TAMILNADU 26-08-2023

A delegation consisting of Coms. N K Gandigwad, C H Shivanand , C K Hosamani, Vijaya kumar Mandi, S L Pujar of HUBLI DISTRICT lead by Com P Gangadhara Rao VP CHQ and Com R Changappa CS, Karnataka met Shri Pralhad Joshiji, Hon’ble Minister of Parliamentary Affairs at Hubli on 27- 8- 2023 .

We brought to his notice about undue delay in settlement of our Pension Revision issue and impressed him for his further intervention . He assured that he will discuss with MOC and inform us .

P Gangadhara Rao

VP , CHQ.