CWC MEETING OF AIBSNLPWA WAS SUCCESSFULLY HELD AT PATNA ON 11th AND 12th .

RECEPTION COMMITTEE LED BY SHRI SHAMSHAD ALI, A K SINGH, H N SINGH, A K CHOUDHARY, R K CHOUDHARY, R N SINHA, P L SINHA A ND OTHERS MADE VERY COMFORTABLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR BOARDING AND LODGING OF ALL CWC MEMBERS.

OPEN SESSION WAS INAUGURATED BY COM. C SINGH, SECRETARY GENERAL OF NFTE-BSNL.

SHRI R P SINGH, RETIRED PGMT OF PATNA WAS THE CHIEF GUEST.

FEW PHOTOS ARE GIVEN BELOW. [Photos by Com. V V S Murthy, AGS]

INAUGURATION BY LIGHTING THE LAMP BY COM. C SINGH (SG, NFTE-BSNL), SHRI R P SINGH (Retd. PGM), COM. K MUTHIALU , SHRI D N CHOWDHARY(PATRON, BIHAR CIRCLE UNIT), SHRI SHAMSHAD ALI (CIRLE PRESIDENT, BIHAR)

PAYING HOMAGE TO THE DEPARTED...

WELCOME BY SHRI D N CHOWDHARY, PATRON, BIHAR CIRCLE

COM. C SINGH, SG OF NFTE-BSNL INAUGURATES THE CWC MEETING

P S RAMANKUTTY

D GOPALAKRISHNAN

G NATARAJAN

P GANGADHARA RAO

T S VITTOBAN

SHRI R P SINGH, Retd. PGM, ENROLLING HIMSELF HIMSELF AS A LIFE MEMBER OF AIBSNLPWA.

RECEIVING THE RECEIPT FOR Rs 1500.00 FROM COM. A K SINGH, CS, BIHAR

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SOME OF THE OFFICE-BEARERS PARTICIPATING IN THE DISCUSSIONS

CIRCLE SECRETARIES PARTICIPATING IN THE DEBATE

COMRADES OF RECEPTION COMMITTEE WITH P S RAMANKUTTY AND KERALA COMRADES

The 1000 years old Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur (Tanjore), in Tami Nadu is one of the largest temples in the whole world. It is amazing, astounding, inspiring.

Now, we have an astounding, amazing district Unit in Thanjavur SSA. Today, our CHQ has received Quota for 270 Life members and Rs 50,000 as donation. There are 570 Life members in the SSA now.

We have already published number of photos of the great charity work undertaken by Thanjavur comrades helping the hapless people in orphanages, blind schools, old age homes etc.

I congratulate the entire Thanjavur Team.

PSR

The number of Life Members of our Association, AIBSNLPWA, has crossed 30,000. Originally we had only annual members.In the end of 2011, the CWC discussed difficulties of collecting every year the membership from pensioners residing at distant places, and decided to enroll Life Members. Within six years, the number of Life Members has crossed 30,000.

Tamilnadu and Chennai TD Circles together have 8000.

Andhra and Telengana together have 5700.

Kerala has 3800.

Karnataka has 2800.

MP, Odisha and Punjab have crossed 1000 each.

This is the great response from BSNL pensioners.

This is the real reflection of their great confidence in AIBSNLPWA.

We have been publishing in Pensioners Patrika details of donations received from branches on account of pension revision with 78.2. Our dealings are quite transparent.

Karnataka Circle leaders were bit reluctant to ask for donation because they collected huge amount for the last All India Conference. However, after seeing the response from other Circles, Karnataka circle sent an amount of Rupees ONE LAKH yesterday to CHQ as part of their donation. Some pensioners from Karnataka contacted us directly and informed their willingness to donate. We advised them to do it through their branch/circle only.

............... P S Ramankuty

Corporate Office of BSNL has sent another letter to all Circles on 1-11-2017 about pension revision of DOT pensioners granting the benefit of notional revision of PAY of Last Pay Drawn and finally fixing the pension at 50% of the notional pay so revised. according to the figures given by Corporate Office, there are 99084 DOT Pensioners waiting for the said revision. Out of that only 18444 cases have been processed by SSA offices of BSNL. Here also we can find the lethargic attitude of BSNL authorities towards problems of retirees.

For the figures please click on this link: dot-pension-revision-figures.xlsx

Yesterday, on 1-11-2017, BSNL Corporate Office has again sent a letter to all Circles about pension revision with 78.2% IDR. As on 31-10-2017, out of the total 133854 cases for revision, 6640 cases are not yet processed and submitted by BSNL SSA offices.Corporate Office has given the circle wise figures also.

Andhra, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, UP East, Uttrakhand circles have sent all cases.

Delhi Circle stands with maximum cases pending in BSNL office.

The Circle-wise figures of cases pending with BSNL are as:

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Delhi: 2067

Kolkata TD: 1279

Panjab: 712

Maharastra: 695

West Bengal: 472

Assam: 330

J&K: 326

Kerala: 312

Orisssa: 118

Jharkhand: 106

NE: 90

HP: 52

Dir A/c: 52

UP West: 18

Gujarat: 7

MP: 3

Haryana: 1

Total 6640.

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Circles are directed to give due priority to the work and intimate the status position to Corporate Office by Fax every FRIDAY.

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According to Labour Bureau of India, the All India Consumer Price Index for September is 285.

For July it was 285 points.

For August also it was 285.

RAJAHMUNDRY (EAST GODAVARI) OF AP

HELD ANNUAL GB ON 29-10-2017.

CS AP, CS TELENGANA, DS OF EG SSA (COM. BHASKARA RAO) AND OTHERS ARE ON THE DAIS.

COM. SANNASI RAO IS RE ELECTED AS THE BRANCH SECRETARY.

THE TUNI BRANCH IN AP HELD A GB MEETING ON 28-10-2017. COM. VARAPRASAD, CS OF AP, COM. K S K RAO, CS OF TELENGANA, COM K VENKATESWARLU, DS OF EG ETC. ADDRESSED.

KAKINADA BRANCH IN AP HELD A GB MEETING ON 28-10-2017. COM. VARAPRASAD ( CS OF AP),COM. K S K RAO (CS OF TELENGANA), COM. R S N MURTHY, K VENKATESWARLU ETC. ADDRESSED IT.

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SALEM EAST (TN) BRANCH HELD A GENERAL BODY MEETING ON 27-10-2017. COM. D GOPALAKRISHNAN ADDRESSED THE MEETING AND EXPLAINED OUR DEMAND FOR FUTURE PENSION REVISION BASED ON CPC FITMENT FORMULA.

Following amounts have been transferred to CHQ Account. But details are not yet received.Treasurer is waiting for details to issue the Receipt with particulars. Concerned comrades may please contact Com. T S Vittoban, CHQ Treasurer and supply details:

Rs. 2000 received from Fatehpur on 14/6/2017: Details not yet received

Rs 7400 received on 7-10-2017. Remitter's name not known

Rs 6642 received from one Sursh Pratap Singh. Details not known

Rs 6740 Received on 13-10-2017: Particulars not known

Rs 3400 received from Etah. Names of Life members awaited.

Rs 8000 received on 23-10-2017 from Tutitcorin. Names of Life members awaited

Rs 3702.95 received on 23-10-2017: Particulars not known.

ODISHA CIRCLE UNIT HELD A SPECIAL CIRCLE CONFERENCE ON 22-10-2017 IN PURI, THE TEMPLE CITY WHERE WE ARE GOING TO MEET IN OUR NEXT ALL INDIA CONFERENCE.

Leaders of Odisha circle met in Puri to hold preliminary discussion on arrangements to be made by the host circle.

A view of the comrades attending the special meeting:

The two days Circle conference of Kerala concluded exactly at 5 PM today as scheduled. Com. P Narayanan Moosad, Retired DGM of Calicut is the new Circle President. Com. T P George is re elected as Circle Secretary and Com. C G Daniel is elected as the new Treasurer.

Com P S Ramankutty inaugurating the Delegate Session.

Com. G Natarajan addressing the Delegate Session.

Com. T S Vittoban speaking in Delegate Session

Com. A P Saraswathy, VP addressing the Delegate Session

Delegates attending the conference on second day.

The 2 Days Kerala Circle Conference commenced today evening at 5 PM. Dr. Sebastian Paul Ex MP and EX MLA, a prominent media personality, inaugurated the conference. Com. P S Ramankutty (CHQ President), Com. A P Saraswathy (CHQ Vice President), Com. G Natarajan (General Secretary), Com. T S Vittoban (CHQ Treasurer), Com. Sampath (Secretary, Chennai Anna Nagar branch), and Com. Vaidyanathan (Secretary, Chennai Villivakkam branch) are attending the conference.

Com. Natarajan, Shri D Manoj (CCA Kerala), Sri. J Sudhakaran Nair (President of Kerala State Electricity Board Pensioners Association), Com. G Madhusoodhanan Nair (Postal Pensioners' Forum), Com. Sadanandan (Kendriya Vidyalaya Pensioners Forum) etc. greeted the conference. Some of the senior DOT pensioners aged above 80, were felicitated by General Secretary on the occasion.

Conference will continue on 21-10-2017 also. Few Photos are given below:

Dr. Sebstian Paul Ex MP inaugurating the Kerala Circle Conference.

Com. Pada Nair (CP), Com. A P Saraswathy (CHQ VP), Shri D Manoj (CCA), Com. Natarajan

Sh. Sudhakaran Nair, P S Ramankutty and G. Madhusoodhanan Nair are seen in the pic.

Com. G Natarajan, GS speaks

A view of the audience in the inaugural function.

LET THE FESTIVAL ENLIGHTEN US ALL....

TODAY, BSNL CORPORATE OFFICE HAS SENT A LETTER TO ALL CGMs REGARDING STATUS OF PENSION REVISION WITH 78.2%. AS ON 3-10-2017, BSNL HAS NOT SENT 7022 CASES TO CCAs. 202 CASES ARE PENDING IN CCA OFFICES. 1634 CASES HAVE BEEN SENT BACK TO BSNL FOR CORRECTION OR SOME OTHER REASONS.

On 16-10-2017 the BSNL Corp. Office has sent another reminder to Circles on BSNLMRS without voucher facility.The letter reads as:

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“The decision of restoration of without voucher facility to retired employees is to be reviewed after six months based on the financial implications. Accordingly information was sought from all Circles in a prescribed proforma forwarded with this office letters dated 17^th April 2017 and 27^th June 2017 (Copies enclosed for ready reference). The information is still awaited.

Many retired employees and Unions have conveyed that the quarterly instalment of many retired employees have not been released by many circles.You are requested to furnish the status of release of quarterly instalment and also furnish consolidated information of the Circle sought in the letter for submitted it to Director (HR) for review of the case.Kindly furnishthe soft copy of the information in excel sheet also for further consolidation at Corporate Office.Soft copy may be mailed to dgmadmbsnlco@gmail.com and admnbsnlco@gmail.com.

(Sd/-)

AGM (Admn).

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We have reproduced the letter as it is with the mistakes.This is the third reminder.You can expect similar reminders again and again.This is BSNL administration.

As already reported through this Site, members of our Thanjavur SSA Unit in Tamilnadu organise lot of charity work every year. Again on 14-10-2017 and 15-10-2017 the Thanjavur comrades led by Com. Swaminathan, Com. Santhanagopalan, Com. Irudhayaraj and many ladies visited few more orphanages in the temple city and gave away clothes, food and money for crackers to the inmates sharing their happy moments on the eve of Deepawali.

The great service rendered by BSNL Pensioners of Thanjavur under the banner of AIBSNLPWA really lighted the lamps of hope in the mind of many hapless people, left in lurch by the society including their relatives.

Kudos to Thanjavur Pensioners.

IDA INCREASE FROM 2007 TO 2017

2008: 8.7

2009: 12.4

2010: 14.5

2011: 12.2

2012 : 15.3

2013 : 18.2

2014: 12.6

2015 : 9.8

2016: 12.4

2017 : 4.0

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TOTAL 124.3%