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All Unions and Associations of BSNL (AUAB) ,in its meeting held on 07-09-2020 , has decided to observe Black Day on 01-10-2020 in protest against the trecherous stand of the government by denying 4G to BSNL.  Starting 4G services by BSNL is most important and crucial to the revival of BSNL. Unfortunately, the BSNL management is also dancing to the tunes of the government in this vital issue.

Therefore, AIBDPA, fully endorses the decision of AUAB to observe Black Day on 01-10-2020, the foundation day of BSNL. AIBDPA units are requested to co-operate with the local AUAB units for the successfull implementation of the decision, without hindrence to our own program of International Pensioners Day on the same date.

AUAB circular no.10, carrying the decisions taken in the meeting held on 07.09.2020.

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Dear Comrades,

As per the decision of WFTU and TUI{P&R}, October 1 is being observed as Internationay Day of Pensioners and Retirees. NCCPA has called upon all its affiliates to implement the decision effectively by holding demonstration on 01-10-2020 focusing the issues of the elders. CHQ requests all its units to take the initiative to hold the programme jointly with other organisations affiliated to NCCPA and whereever no other organisation exists ,AIBDPA has to conduct the program independently.

AIBDPA leaders while addressing the demonstration may also mention about two of our burning issues, pension revision and denial of medical facilities.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Trade Union International Calls to observe 1.10.2020 the World Pensioners Day and Hold Demonstration!

* NCCPA Calls Upon All Affiliates to befittingly observe 1st October World Pensioners Day by Trade Union International (Pensioners & Retirees)!

* The Circular received from the General Secretary Trade Union International is also given for the information!

NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE

OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS..

Website: nccpahq.blogspot.in.

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13.c Feroze Shah Road,

New Delhi. 110 001

PRESIDENT:       COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)

SECy. GENERAL:          COM.K.K.N.KUTTY. (98110 483030)

Dated: 10th September, 2020

To

All the affiliates, State Committees, CGPAs, State Cocs.

 Dear Comrades,

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR OLDER PERSONS.

OCTOBER IST.

OR DAY OF ELDERLY.

We send herewith the circular letter from the General Secretary, TUI (Pensioners and Retirees) of the World Federation of Trade Unions written in connection with the observance of International day for older persons . Throughout the world the retirees and pensioners observe Ist October as  a day of solidarity with all those who fight against exploitation.  It is also to express solidarity with all old people to ensure that the well-being of senior citizens is the responsibility of the society.  To have a decent standard of living and well looked-after old age is considered an inalienable human right.   Unfortunately few countries and fewer governments have recognised this  right of the old people. The welfare society concept in fact came into being in the capitalist society to ward off the threat from the socialist ideology which was pervading in a major segments of the world in the beginning of the 20^th Century.  Now that they could obliterate that threat by foul machinations,  In most of the countries the senior citizens are driven to a wretched life.  The world is now fed with the eulogy of free market, global economy, higher GDP growth rate, mega corporates, super profits and the consequent tickle down effect to serve the people and rescue from the misery and agony.  The greater the inequality , prosperous the country is the new propounded theory.  In our own country, social security and pension payment was considered a drain on the economy and a wasteful expenditure.  The next generation civil servants in the country shall live their retired life in uncertainty and penury as even their hard earned income would have been gobbled up by the so called mega corporations with the tacit help rendered by a Government elected by the same people in the hope that it will look after them. 

 It was the avalanche of the renewed idea of exploitation that has compelled many countries to make a relook into their social security system and ensure its demolition as has happened in our own country.  They are mocking at the person who made the chair in which the ruler is today sitting.  Observance of this day is to rededicate ourselves to the cause of a struggle to bring in a society sans exploitation; to have a better evening in the life of a human being and a non-dependent existence.  

 The world Federation of Trade Unions and the Trade Union International ( P&R)  have called upon us  to observe Ist October, 2020 in an appropriate manner. Not forgetting that we are in the midst of a deadly disease called corona virus covid 19 pandemic, we call upon our affiliates, State CoCs CGPAs and our members to organise demonstration by holding the placard, (specimen depicted hereunder) at-least for an hour. We know that this is a small step in the direction of the realisation of our dream – a world sans exploitation- but we are confident from our own experience that our small steps early in our life has enabled us to leap into giant strides. 

 With greetings,

 Yours fraternally,

 K.K.N. KUTTY

Secretary General.

TUI General Secretary’s Circular

THE TUI OF P&R

PREPARES THE ACTIONS FOR OCTOBER 1^st, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF STRUGGLE

FOR THE RIGHTS OF PENSIONERS AND RETIRED PERSONS (P&R)

October 1^st was established by the UN as International Day of Older Persons, or also Day of the Elderly. Since the creation of the International Union of Trade Unions (TUI) of Pensioners and Retirees of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), this date has become a world day to fight against exploitation, due to the requirement to defend the rights of pensioners and retirees, for a decent life based on the wealth that the working class produces every day with its work.

 Once again, from the WFTU TUI of the WFTU, we call all our organizations and friendly organizations to action, in order to make next October 1^st a day of vindication and fight for the rights of those who have already reached retirement and for the right to worthily retire for those who have not yet reached this stage of life, whether their activity has been carried out in the formal economy or in the informal economy.

 It is an inalienable human right that, after a life of work, people of working class and popular extraction can leave their habitual activity and live with dignity. We qualify a decent life as one in which, thanks to the retirement pension or the income to which one is entitled, sufficient resources are available, such as habitable housing, drinking water, healthy food and health care, culture, leisure and free, quality public commuter transportation. Today there is enough wealth on the planet for all this; it is only enough to distribute it fairly, instead of spending it in imperialist wars.

 However, the reality is very different and many people who should have reached retirement must continue working because they do not have access to a sufficient pension, while many of those who have retired cannot have a decent life, a situation that worsens in the case of those who have been unemployed for a time or have worked all or part of their lives in the underground economy or in caring for other people, something that especially affects women.

 The real and fundamental cause is the capitalist, unfair and exploitative mode of production, strengthened after the temporary defeat of the socialist countries. Currently, the capitalist governments are promoting new anti-worker measures, against pensioners, the working class and the people. In general, the working life is extended, the years of contribution are increased to be entitled to a pension and the amount received is decreased, all with the final objective of privatizing pensions and converting into another business for financial capital, what should be a universal right. That is the meaning of the existence and extension of the Pension Fund Administration entities (AFP) in numerous countries and the approval, by the European Union, of the so-called European Personal Pension Plan (PEPP), which as TUIof P&Rof the WFTU We have denounced (in Europe the First European Action of the P&R was held on June 17).

 In the name of capitalist competitiveness, retired people and pensioners around the world experience the worsening of their living conditions and those of their descendants, while social goods are commercialized and bloody conflicts and wars are promoted (with money from all citizens) imperialists.

 Against all this, we call for coordinated international action on October 1. We will fight with unity and common action as the working class, the people and those who suffer capitalist exploitation, for our immediate objectives, but always with the perspective of a society without exploitation, oppression, poverty, war or calamities.

Every October 1^st we will demand that a decent job is guaranteed for all people, adapted to their abilities, that allows them to live with dignity and generate a decent pension or, if this fails, that the state budgets assign them a decent pension. without the humiliating adjective of “non-contributory”.

Every October 1^st we will go out to the streets to approve, in the laws and constitutions of the countries, the obligation of the states to ensure, through public budgets, pensions that allow all people to retire from their jobs and live worthily.

LONG LIVE THE FIGHT DAY OF OCTOBER 1^st!

LET’S ALL PARTICIPATE IN IT!

July 2,020

TUI (International Union of Trade Unions) of Pensioners and Retirees (P&R) of the WFTU.

The relentless efforts of Com. G G Patil, the founder leader of AIBDPA in Karnataka and former AGS has yeilded the desired result. The meeting of the BSNL retirees, including VRS retirees , in Koppal was held on 05-09-2020 and decided to form a new branch. Office bearers were elected unanimously and the following comrades are the important functionaries;

President : Com. S D Dinni

Secretary: Com. B S Alur

Treasurer: Com. V R Kouthal.

News have been spread that the serving employees of BSNL will be getting another reimbursement of medical bills up to March, 2020 along with their salary of August, 2020. Earlier they were paid the medical bills upto September, 2019 along with the salary of May, 2020. AIBDPA had to launch countrywide Standing Dharna on 19-08-2020 against the apathy and discrimination to the BSNL retirees by the BSNL management which was a huge success. But the BSNL management is again indulging in their discriminatory action by repeatedly ignoring the more deserving BSNL pensioners in payment of medical bills and allowance, pending for more than 18 months.

In this backdrop, Com.V A N Namboodiri , Advisor had a detailed discussion with Shri.P K Purwar, CMD, BSNL on 31-08-2020 over telephone. Com. V A N brought to the notice of the CMD, the distress and difficulties being faced by the BSNL pensioners due to the non-payment of pending medical bills and allowance. He also pointed out that discriminatory action of BSNL management by making payment to the serving employees, ignoring the retirees,  has caused much resentment among the BSNL pensioners and urged the CMD to initiate urgent steps for early payment of pending medical bills and allowance to the BSNL pensioners. The CMD stated that BSNL is still in finacial difficulties and unable to make payment immediately and will consider the issue within two months, when the revenue income is expected to improve.

The response of the CMD, BSNL on this vital issue of BSNL pensioners is disappointing and condemnable. CHQ will definetly decide on future course of action without much delay.

Shri. Pranab Mukherjee (84), former President has breathed his last on 31-08-2020 at New Delhi. He was battling for his life after a major brain surgery in a New Delhi hospital and also had tested positive for Covid. 

Shri.Prnab Mukherjee has served the country in many capacities, including Defence Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister in the central cabinet of Smt. Indira Gandhi, Shri.P V Narasimha Rao and Shri. Manmohan Singh. He was elected as President of India in 2012 and continued till 2017. He was conferred Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award. 

AIBDPA pays respectful homage to Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, the great political leader and able  administrator and coveys heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family, relatives and friends.

State Bank of India has intimated CHQ, that our SB Account No.31211446886 has been shifted to State Bank of India, Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan, Janpath, New Delhi-110001 Branch.

The new IFSC code is  SBIN0006199.

All the Circle Secretaries and CHQ Office Bearers are requested to bring it to the attention of all our units.