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As informed by our Advocate Shri Gowtam Narayan, Our matter was taken up today and arguments were addressed by Mr Ghose Learned Senior Advocate. The bench was in agreement with the submissions made and observed as such as much to the respondents. However, since counsel for the DoT was unavailable, owing to some personal difficulty, the matter has been kept as ' part heard ' on 17 May 2023.
Dear Comrades,
Last CIRCLE CONFERENCE of MADHYA PRADESH CIRCLE was held at Bhopal on 25th and 26th June 2022. CHQ received two lists of office-bearers claiming that they got elected in the said conference.
Prior to that, some dispute arose in Jabalpur District
branch also. District Secretary moved a resolution to suspend the District
President on the charges of financial irregularities in the District Accounts
which was passed by the circle conference. District President has ceased the
bank account. Both the groups have started functioning parallely.
CHQ sent a Fact Finding Team consisting of Com. R H
Mitkary, the then Vice President and Com. J S Dahiya, Asst. General Secretary
to enquire into the allegations. After
verifying the records made available to it, the Team reported about financial irregularities
committed by the then Circle Secretary and about admission of delegates to
Circle Conference and on election of office bearers. Based on the report of the
fact finding team, the circle conference of June 2022 has been declared null
and void.
Some of the comrades from Jabalpur brought this matter to
the venue of last AIC at Visakhapatanam also.
The AIC decided that CHQ will conduct the election of MP Circle with the
participation of same circle office-bearers/District Secretaries and delegates
who attended the last dissolved conference under its direct supervision and
also to hold general body meeting of Jabalpur to resolve the dispute there.
Accordingly, a general body meeting of Jabalpur was held
on 25-3-2023. Com. P Gangadhara Rao
(Vice President) has conducted the proceedings in the presence of Com. Varaprasad (GS) and Com. Anupam Kaul (Dy
GS). Two sections led by Com. K S Jat (Former District President) and Com.
Saket Shukla (DS) raised allegations and counter allegations. However election
was conducted by secret ballot. The
panel led by Com. Saket Shukla got 115 votes out of 201 polled and the other
panel led by Com. Jat got 61 votes. 25
votes were found invalid. After the elections Com. Jat and some of his friends
walked out.
CIRCLE CONFERENCE:
Then the Circle Conference was held at Bhopal on
27-3-2023, as notified. All those district branches who attended the previous Circle
conference of 26-06-2022 and newly elected delegates from Jabalpur in their
District Conference on 25-03-2023 have participated in the present Circle conference.
Conference was presided over by Com.
Gangadhara Rao in the presence of General Secretary and Dy. GS. A heated debate took place on the organizational
activities in the Circle. Finally, at
the time of election of office bearers, some delegates from Districts like
Gwalior, Indore, Morena, Guna and Shivpuri boycotted it alleging that entire
proceedings are illegal and unconstitutional. The election process was continued and the following
office-bearers were elected unanimously:
Circle President
: R K Tiwari
Circle Secretary
: V S Thakur
Circle Treasurer
: J P Karve
Com Saket Shukla has been elected unanimously as Org Secretary, CHQ, the post which was kept vacant for MP Circle in the AIC.
District Conference of
JABALPUR was held on 25-3-2023 under
the Presidentship of Com . P Gangadhara Rao, Vice President , CHQ and in the presence
of Com.
V Varaprasad, GS and Com. Anupamkaul,
Dy. GS.
Election was
inevitable. Secret Ballot
voting was conducted .
ELECTION RESULTS.
Total votes polled..... 201
Votes polled for the Panel of Com. K S Jat. 61
Votes polled for the Panel of Com. R K Tiwari. 115
Invalid votes..
. 25
Total. .... ...
201
President. Com. R
K Tiwari
Secretary. Com. Saket
Shukla.
Treasurer. Com. N
D Paraswani.
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.
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 .
The List The List
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
Denial of benefit of fixation under FR22© for those executives who retired between July 2017 and May 2018.
Between 22nd& 25th 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
Our Pension revision case in PB CAT Delhi has been adjourned to 21-03-2023.
Audio of Com D Gopalakrishnan Our CHQ President narrates the case of Pension Revision in a chronological way.
GS / AIBSNLPWA spoke to Dr Mahesh Shukla, Member (Services), DOT, over phone today. Enquired about the status of our pension revision issue. Member (S) confirmedthe receipt ofcalculations from CGCA, on probable expenditure. Member(S)further told he has an appointment to meet Hon Minister for Communicationstoday in the evening. Member (S) told that he will inform the minister that pension revision is one of important pending point which is to be decided as the entire liability of cost of pension revision lies with Govt of India. He says he is hopeful for a favourable decision by MOC on fitment factor. On our behalf, we extended our greetings to him who is retiring on superannuation tommorrow .
2nd day dharna on 18-01-2023 was also held at all SSA/Circle headquarters throughout the country successfully as per joint call of 6 BSNL/MTNL associations demanding pension revision as per 7th CPC fitment formula w.e.f from 01-01-2017. Few of the photos received are given in the attached file. 18th-program.pdf
Nation wide Dharna done on 17-01-2023 is a very successful as seen from the reports received from 18 circles . More than 600 photos have come in whatsapp. Here for the information of our leaders , members, few of them have been posted in the pdf file attached herewith. Hundreds of our members from all SSAs have participated with firm commitment to our demand and program.
DPE issued orders for revised IDA rates @ 201.2% due from 01-01-2023 in respect of Pay scales of 01-01-2007.