Message from our lawyer

As you are aware, our matter was listed as Item 59 before Bench 5 today comprising of Ms.Pratima Gupta and Dr. Chhabilendra Roul.

Our Senior Counsel requested that the matter was of extreme urgency and required to be heard on priority since the issue involved was pertaining to the non-implementation of the recommendations of the 7th CPC in the BSNL qua the applicants who were absorbed from the erstwhile DoT into the BSNL upon corporatisation of the former and consequent formation of the latter. It was submitted that several thousand pensioners have been waiting for their lawful retiral benefits for several years. However, the lawyer appearing for the respondents was in some difficulty.

Keeping in view the urgency expressed by Senior Counsel , the bench was pleased to accept the request made by him and post the matter on the shortest possible date i.e. 29th March 2023- next Wednesday.

CGHS issues revised guidelines for setting up Local Advisory Committees for all Wellness Centres / Zonal Advisory committees at the level of AD CGHS throughout the country to ensure prompt redressal of grievances within the CGHS system.

grievance-7-10.pdf

Pensioners Patrika, March 2023 issue, has been returned from the following subscribers by Postal Department with various remarks. The concerned comrades are requested to check the address and intimate if there is any change. Else they may take up with their respective post offices,

District Secretaries are also requested to look into the matter .

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Pension Revision Issue :

Dear comrades

Today (13/3/23) Com M K Bagchi, President, RTOWA and self met Member (Services) and discussed the issue of pension revision in detail.

Before that, Member (S) had a discussion with DDG (Estt) and Director (Estt) for nearly 45 minutes when we were waiting outside.

Member (S) informed us

1) After several corrections in the calculation DoT finance wing has sent the file to Establishment section.

2) Discussion may be held with Member (F) and Telecom secretary during this week.

3) After getting their opinion/clearance it would be discussed with Hon MoC depending upon his convenience and quantum will be decided as directed by him.

4) We told him that since there should be a mechanism for future pension revision and hence reiterated our demand of 7th CPC fitment factor.

5) He noted down the point of hassle free future pension revision.

This is for your information and at last file has come out of DoT finance. Let us hope for the best.

Anupam Kaul , Dy.GS

pp-2023-march-april.pdf

Denial of benefit of fixation under FR22© for those executives who retired between July 2017 and May 2018.

Between 22^nd& 25^th March 2022 we visited Delhi and we discussed this issue with Director (Estt) and explained as follows:-

The Executives who retired prior to July 2017 and those who retired after May 2018 got the benefit of increment one for lateral promotion and another for vertical promotion in the same scale of pay under FR22©.There was objection by audit and through court intervention got the benefit by giving an undertaking that it is subject to final verdict from the court.But the same benefit was denied to those retired in the in-between period of 10 months.This issue was discussed with Director (Estt.).He told that there should be uniformity and either all should get or all should not get.We told him that DoT cannot go against the judgement and the officials who retired during this 10 months period also should get it by giving a similar undertaking.He said that it is getting examined.

On 26/07/2022 again we discussed this issue with Director (Estt) during our visit.

He said that will be looked into.

DoT has issued the order on 20th February 2023 vide No.40-12/2004-Pen(ST)(pt) conceding our request. DoT took one year to issue this order. Anyway we thank DoT for removing the discrimination.

DOT's order pension_dot-om-dated-20th-feb-2023.pdf

Click here for the letter : bsnlmrs-17022023.pdf

Nation wide agitation by BSNL/MTNL Pensioners: Joint action Program by six major BSNL/MTNL Pensioner's associations including ours was given demanding pension revision as per 7th CPC fitment formula. All of us have witnessed that the Call attention day on 19th December 2022 and two days dharna on 17th, 18th Jan 2023 was successfully observed throughout the country . Rally on February 8th to Sanachar Bhavan in Delhi and to CCA offices in Circles was also implemented successfully by these associations. Rally program was suitably modified depending upon local requirements.

Though Hon MOC was positive , because of negative attitude of authorities in Sanchar Bhan , we had resorted to the agitational approach demanding the immediate pension revision with effect from 1-01-2007 for pre 2017 retirees as per 7th CPC and the same benefit to be extended to Post2017 retirees also. More than 3.5 lakh pensioners are awaiting the settlement very eagerly. The enthusiastic response vindicated the anger of the pensioners against the inordinate delay and large majority of pensioners are convinced about the justification of our demand.

We congratulate all the leaders of these associations at all levels for the spectacular success of the 3 phase program of agitations.

Let us closely monitor the further developments on the issue and hope to jointly pursue for final settlement as per our demand.

Rally on 8th February Pictures - below.

Chennai

Bhopal

Ahmedabad

Salem

Lucknow

Nagpur

Kolkata

Patna

Delhi

Mumbai

Bhubaneswar

Trivandrum

Hyderabad

Bangalore

Vijayawada

Bharatpur

Punjab

AJMER

Ranchi

Indore

Virudunagar

Thanjavur

adobe-scan-15-feb-2023-1.pdf

Our Pension revision case in PB CAT Delhi has been adjourned to 21-03-2023.