Coms.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary, R S Chauhan,AGS and R.Prabhakar, Circle Vice President,NTR, Delhi have met Shri. Sushil Kumar Gupta, MP (RS), Delhi on 02-03-2020 and had a brief discussion on pension revision. A letter and copy of memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister was also handed over. Shri.S K Gupta immediately asked his Private Secretary to write to the government.
It was a rare and happy occasion in a typical Gujarat Viialge on 01-03-2020.
Com.H D Jadeja, District President, BSNLEU invited all the VRS retireesof Jamnagar along with AIBDPA leaders to a getogether party held at his native village, Makhaji Meghper. The Chief Guest was Shri. Hakubha Jadeja, Gujarat State Minister for Food. Coms.N N Patel, Circle President, M B Chaniyara, Citcle Secretary, V D Dhamsania, Circle Vice President, A U Anjaria, Circle Treasurer, I K Borkhtaria, District President and N N Kaneria, District Secretary attended from AIBDPA. Com.S S Dubey ,District Secretary, BSNLEU also participated.
Com.H D Jadeja along with 45 other VRS retirees who participated in the function readily joined AIBDPA and another 75 VRS retirees have alrady promised to join.
CHQ heartily congratulate Com.H D Jadeja and other leaders of Gujarat .
CHQ is getting calls from many comrades ,asking whether the Parliament March will be postponed in the wake of riotous situation prevailed in certain parts of Delhi State. Now the situation has almost returned to normalcy . So we will go ahead with our decision for the Parliament March on 12-03-2020. In this connection CHQ calls upon the Circle and District Secretaries to mobilize maximum comrades for the Parliament March to make it a historic success.
Kindly bring the banners of the respective Circle and District Branches and maximum number of flags to make the Parliament March impressive and colourful.
Special care should be taken that all the participants reach Eastern Court by 0930 AM on 12-03-2020 as the Parliament March will start at 10 AM. Those want to come in metro may get down at Janpath Station and get out through gate No.4.
Comrades, CHQ is happy to have very encouraging and enthusiastic response to the 4 phased agitational programme and no doubt it will boost our morale and confidence to serve the pensioners more vigourously.
There are 2,816 billionaires across the world according to the Global Rich List released by Hurun. 346 billionaires were added in a single year of 2019 and India added 34 people to the billionaires list making a total of 138. Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian figured on 9th in the Global list with a net worth of $67 billion.
First rank is retained by Jeff Bezos of Amazon with Net worth $140 billion, followed by Bernard Arnault of LVMH with Net worth $107 billion and Bill Gates of Microsoft with a Net worth of $106 billion.
The net result of richest people amazing more wealth is that gap between the poor and rich widened alarmingly.
Well, the inevitable has happened at last. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has added more subscribers than any other telecom operator in India in December 2019. After the prepaid tariff hike in December 2019, everyone expected that BSNL would lead the subscriber addition chart, which is true if the subscription data released by Trai is anything to go by. During the month of December, BSNL added 4.2 lakh new users which was followed by Reliance Jio which added just 82,308 new customers. For the first time since its inception, Reliance Jio has added less than five million users. This will put a lot of questions on Jio’s goal of reaching 500 million subscriber base in the next two quarters. As always, Vodafone Idea lost the most number of subscribers in the month, followed by Bharti Airtel and MTNL.
BSNL Beats Reliance Jio for the First Time in Subscriber Additions
Reliance Jio emerged as the winner in almost every month since it launched services to the public back in September 2016. The company averaged more than five million users every month, but the latest prepaid tariff hike and the continuation of IUC have dented its monthly additions for the first time. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco added just 82,308 new users in December 2019 and it is still the leading telco with 32.14% market share.
Government-owned BSNL has managed to grab 427,089 users in the same month, beating Jio for the first time and securing a market share of 10.26%. At the start of December 2019, private telecom operators hiked prepaid tariff prices by up to 40%, but BSNL did not make any major changes to the tariffs except reducing validity in select circles.
The decision of not hiking prepaid tariffs helped BSNL grab more new customers than Reliance Jio in December.
Vodafone Idea Lost 3.6 Million Users in the Same Month
The situation is getting worse for Vodafone Idea as the telco lost 3.6 million users in December 2019. Bharti Airtel also lost just over 11,000 subscribers in the last month of 2019. So the tariff hike effect can also be seen on Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. In November 2019, Vodafone Idea lost over 30 million existing customers which dented its overall user base by a considerable margin. And the subscriber losses for the telco continues.
As for the overall standings, Reliance Jio is still the leading telecom operator in India, followed by Vodafone Idea with 28.89% and Bharti Airtel with 28.43%. BSNL continues to be India’s fourth-largest telco with a market share of 10.26%.
Com. K G jayaraj, General Secretary visited Sanchar Bhawan to meet the Member (Finance) to ascertain the progress on payment of the first installment of ex-gratia to the VRS retirees. Unfortunately he was not available and has met Shri.Amitab Ranjan Sinha, DDG(Accounts) Department of Telecommunications on 27-02-2020.
The DDG( Accounts) stated that the amount for the first installment of ex-gratia to the VRS reirees will be made over to BSNL once BSNL gives the required data on the actual requirement and hoped to fulfil before the target date of March 31, 2020.
On issuing PPOs to the VRS retirees, DDG clarified that the work is being carried out satifactorily in almost all CCAs.
Kharagpur District delegation led by Coms.Susanta Ghosh, CHQ Vice President & Circle President and Madhup Sengupta, District Secretary have met Shri. Kunar Hembram, MP, Jhargram on 26-02-2020. The delegation brought to his notice the issue of pension revision pending unsettled for the last three years and gave him a letter on the issue and handed over a copy of the memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister. The MP assured the delegation appropriate action in the matter. Coms.Anupam Saha (District President), R Singh and C R Majumdar were the other members of the delegation.
