AIBDPA/ CIRCULAR.4/2021 30thAugust,2021.
All CHQ Office Bearers, Circle Secretaries,
Affiliates and District Secretaries.
DearComrade,
Hope the pandemic situation is improving in most of the states and you have taken both the vaccine. Still we have to be careful and adhere to the Covid 19 protocol, as covid afflicted cases are being reported to those who have taken both vaccine. So let us be cautious and safe
.Membership Register.
It is mandatory to keep a membership register by every unit of the organisation with all the relevant details including name, Pensioner/ Family Pensioner, date of enrollment as member, Life Member or Annual Member, Receipt No with date etc.
CHQ is experiencing some difficulties in maintaining a full fledged Membership Register due to the following reasons.1. Only very few Branches are sending the names of the members.2. Some of the branches while sending the quota are not intimating the break up figures of the amount of quota, viz life membership, annual membership, Family Pensioner membership, both life and annual. If annual, the period is not mentioned.It is therefore requested that all District Secretaries to send their membership list covering all the above details. Separate lists for Life Member, Annual Member for Pensioner and Family Pensioner. Such a full fledged list may please be sent to both CHQ and Circle. Please take it as a serious responsibility and urgency so that the list is sent by 30th September, 2021.
Agitation on Important Demands.
As you are aware, CHQ has been conducting a series of Agitation on our most burning issues of pension revision and denial of medical benefits for the last three years. CHQ is also utilizing the opportunity to take up these issues in the charter of Demands for Joint Agitation by AUAB, NCCPA and Co-Ordination Committee of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNL CCWF.
3 Day Dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 6,7 & 8th September,2021 by AUAB.
AUAB is holding a significant program of Agitation at Jantar Mantar New Delhi on 6-8 , September,2021 demanding settlement of the 10 point Charter of Demands including Pension Revision. AIBDPA is committed to support and participate. So, Circle Secretaries of NTR Delhi, ALTTC, Haryana, Punjab, UP(W), UP (E), Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are requested to ensure our participation in consultation with the respective AUAB Circle Unit. Com.R S Chauhan, Asst General Secretary is authorised to coordinate with these Circle Branches to ensure the participation of AIBDPA members on all the three days.
Confederation and NCCPA Dharna on 07-09-2021 at State Capitals
.Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers and NCCPA ( National Co Ordination Committee of Pensioners Associations ) have decided to have a joint program of Agitation , Mass Dharna on 07-09-2021 for settlement of the following issues;
- Grant the arrears of DA/DR for the period between 1.1.2020 to 1.07.2021. held back by the Government to the employees and pensioners immediately.
2. Take immediate decision on the following covid related issues;(i) Grant compensation of not less than Rs. 15 lakhs in case of all covid affected deaths;
(ii) Reimburse the hospitalisation bills for all covid patients irrespective of the fact whether the hospital is recognised or not
(iii) Ensure that all employees are provided with the vaccination facility preferably in the CGHS dispensaries.
(iv) Provide compassionate appointments in all death cases irrespective of the 5% ceiling.
(v). Ensure that the pensioners who do not have any health care facility especially for in-patient treatment are provided with insurance coverage at the cost of the Government.
3. Revise the Pension of:(a)BSNL pensioners with effect from 1.1.2017 with 15% fitment, delinking wage revision. (b)Punjab National Bank Pensioners.
4. Grant the medical benefits to the BSNL pensioners.
A resolution is to be adopted at the meeting (dharna programme) on 7th September, 2021. Individual email also to be sent to the Finance Minister by all the members. The format of both resolution and email will be sent shortly.Circle Secretaries are requested to initiate early action to make the program successful in consultation with the constituents of NCCPA and Confederation State Secretaries.
A three phased programme of action by the Co-ordination Committee of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF.
A meeting of the Co-ordination Committee of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF was held on 18.08.2021. The meeting discussed and finalised the following 14 point charter of demands and a three phased agitational programme.
*Charter of demands.*
(1) Stop privatisation of the Public Sector.
(2) Payment of salary on the last date of every month.
3) 3rd Wage Revision.
(4) Pension Revision with 15% fitment, by delinking from Wage Revision.
(5) Immediately pay the wage arrears of the contract workers.
(6) Implement 30% Superannuation Benefits to the Directly Recruited Employees.
(7) Immediately hold the various LICEs.(
(8) Introduce a New Promotion Policy, to solve the problem of stagnation.
(9) Do not reduce the posts, in the name of “Restructuring”.
(10) Settle the medical bills of the serving and retired employees without delay.
(11) Implement 7th CPC pay scale for the casual labourers.
(12) Settle the Rule 8 transfers of the DR JEs and other employees.
(13) Implement E 1 pay scale for the Non-Executives, as has already been approved by the BSNL Management Committee.
(14) Re-engage the retrenched contract workers. *Dates of the* *programmes.*
The meeting fixed the dates for the agitational programmes as follows:
– (1) Demonstrations on *14.09.2021.*
(2) March to SSA and BA (Business Area) Offices on *22nd September, 2021* .
(3) March to the CGM Offices on *05th October, 2021* .
The circle and district secretaries of AIBDPA are requested to form the Circle and District level Co-ordination Committees of the three organisations and plan to organise the programmes successfully.
Hold Circle Executive Committee meetings.
It has come to the notice of the CHQ that certain circles have not held the CEC meeting despite repeated requests. So it is once again requested to hold the meeting and decisions on holding District and Circle Conferences be taken wherever is due.Exact position of Payment of quota to Circle and CHQ by each District be ascertained strictly and if in arrears should be arranged to send without delay.
Tele Pensioner.
The April -June,2021 issue of the Tele Pensioner could not be published due to unforeseen events which is regretted. However a combined issue of both April-June and July- September,2021 will be brought out shortly.
IDA due from 01-07-2021 and Arrears of frozen IDA.
Many of our Comrades are asking CHQ about the delay in issuing the order for the additional instalment of IDA due from 01-07-2021. The Department of Public Enterprises has been brought under the Finance Ministry during recent reshuffle. Earlier, being under the Ministry of Heavy Industries, DPE used to issue the IDA orders within one week of the publication of CPI ( Consumer Price Index) by the Labour Bureau of India. However, contrary to the usual practice, DPE didn’t issue the order of IDA due from 01-07-2021 when the orders for restoration of 3 frozen IDA instalments was issued. Though efforts were made for issuance of the order by CHQ , the bueaurocrats at DPE has not divulged the actual reason for the abnormal delay.
Regarding the arrears of the three frozen IDA instalments, CHQ is trying through our advocate to get a final order from the Kerala High Court as the DoT has not implemented the interim order.
Comrades, the days ahead are of serious struggles and let us rise to the occasion to rejuvenate the organisation and make the struggles a stupendous success.
( Circle Secretaries may kindly forward this circular to all the District Secretaries.)
With warm greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K G Jayaraj.
General Secretary.