The much awaited meeting convened by the Member(S), DoT with representatives of BSNL/ MTNL Pensioners Organisations was held at Sanchar Bhawan at 4PM on today,the 17th October,2022.

Com.K.G. Jayaraj, General Secretary and Com.Sanjib Banerjee,AGS participted and presented a detailed note demanding early settlement of the most important issue.Initiating the proceedings,the Member (S) stated that to break the bottleneck pending for the last five years DoT had sent a proposal to DOP&PW for zero percent fitment delinking wage revision with notional fixation for the post 2017 retirees. However, DOP&PW has returned the file with some observations which were shown on the screen.

All the associations stoutly protested against the zero percent fitment which is not based on any rules or precedence and demanded a fitment not lower than given to the Central Government pensioners.In the concluding remarks, the Member (S) stated he has heard all the organisations and take further action . The representatives wanted minutes of the meeting but the official side remained non-committal. The date for further meeting was also not decided.\The note presented by the General Secretary in the meeting is given above.

5Kainakari Shibu and 4 others