A nice meeting was held with Ms.Vandana Gupta, Controller General of Communication Accounts on today, 9th March, 2026 at her chamber, MTNL Buildings, New Delhi. Apart from Com.R.Muraleedharan Nair, General Secretary, Com.K G Jayaraj, Patron, M G Sasidhara Kurup, Treasurer and R S Chouhan, AGS were in the delegation.
At the outset, the delegation presented the memento to Ms.Vandana Gupta which was to be presented in the 5th Triennial Conference held at Coimbatore on 17-18 December, 2025 as the Chief Guest but could not attend due to administrative exigency. The delegation thanked CGCA for the valuable message sent to the conference which was duly presented in the Open session.
Then the following issues were discussed.
- Denial of Notional increment to the BSNL VRS 2019 retirees.
The copy of the detailed letter written to Secretary, DoT was handed over to her.
The CGCA responded positively and stated that the decision in this regard has to be taken by the DoT at Secretary level.
2. Opening of a Regional CCA office at Sri Nagar.
The letter in this regard was handed over to the CGCA and the delegation requested CGCA to consider the peculiar geographical situation of Jammu& Kashmir and the difficulties being faced by the pensioners in Sri Nagar. CGCA agreed to do the needful in the matter without delay.
3. Provision in the Sampann module to draw the arrears.
The delegation pointed out that the pensioners who fail to furnish the Life Certificate promptly and submit subsequently , the pension will be drawn for that month and the arrears of the previous months are delayed as it has to be done manually by the respective CCA office.
The CGCA replied that the required provision to draw the pension with arrears has been now provided in SAMPANN 2-0.