Shri. Prachish Khanna, Director (Establishment) ,with whom General Secretary, Com.K. G. Jayaraj had a talk today, the 27th June, 2014 has stated that the file on 78.2% IDA merger to BSNL pensioners is still held up at DOT as no decision is taken on the reply to the Department of Expenditure on the issue of 60-40.

The new Prime Minister is reported to be very strict to avoid bureaucratic procedural delays. Whether it is not applicable to the Department of Telecommunications. 

Efforts are on to meet the Secretary, DOT and to see that the indecisiveness on this issue is solved and the reply is sent to the Department of Expenditure at the earliest.