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BERHAMPUR DISTRICT CONFERENCE HELD WITH ENTHUSIASM.

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The 3rd biennial conference of AIBDPA Berhampore District was held on 9th April 2017 at Telecom Recreation club room. After flag hoisting and garlanding martyrs’ column, portraits of Com KG Bose and Moni Bose the inaugural session commenced.

Com Pijush Chakraborty Circle Secretary inaugurated the conference. Other speakers in the inaugural session were Coms Tapan Bhowmick (BSNL Officers’ pensioners welfare Association), Jamaluddin (AIBSNLEA), Sekhar Sarkar and Mamata Sarkar (BSNLEU), Amal Saha (AIBDPA) and Laltu Roy (CMU).

The subject committee started with report and accounts placed by Coms Avijit Sen and Santosh Maitra respectively. Coms Avijit Sen and Pijush Chakraborty summed up at their respective levels.  The report and accounts adopted unanimously after some amendments.

Among others the conference adopted two resolutions -1) The BSNL officers pensioners’ welfare association will be merged with our Association as proposed by the former and 2) rigorous well planned campaign will be made to increase the membership as no of members is far less than those of retirees.

The conference  unanimously elected  Coms Kalidas Biswas, Manoranjan Ghosh and  Dipankar Dutta as President, Secretary and Treasurer respectively. The conference was conducted by the presidium consisting of Coms Kalidas Biswas, Samir Dutta and Biswaroop Hazra.

WFTU solidarity statement for the workers of Maruti Suzuki in India

The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 92 million workers in the 5 continents, expresses its dissatisfaction and denounces the sentence of life to 13 workers and of 5 years jail to four more workers of Maruti Suzuki, regarding the incident of violence in the Manesar plant of Maruti in 2012.

The violent incident in 2012, plotted by the management of the factory, through the hiring of musclemen in order to crush the trade unions and the workers who were fighting for their rights. The convicted workers are not responsible for the incident in which a general manager of the factory was killed.

The WFTU is greeting the demonstrations and the initiatives to take place on 5th April 2017, expressing the Trade unions’ solidarity and demanding the unconditional release of the Maruti workers and reinstatement of dismissed workers.

The Secretariat

Female Labour % abysmally low in India; only 27%

International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ranked India at 121 out of 131 countries in Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) with an abysmal 27%, which means out of 100 jobs, only 27 jobs are with women. Nepal has got FLFP of 79.9%, China 63.9%, Bangladesh 57.4%, 56.3% in US, 50.8% in European countries and 35.1% in Sri Lanka. The few countries which are below India include Pakistan 24.6% and Arab countries 23.3%.
The jobless women in India are mainly in rural area. It is also reported that the FLFP is continuously reducing in India. In the Central government the ratio between men and women workers were 9.15 : 1. Lack of education among women in backward rural areas is one reason.

The continued governments at the centre have not paid any serious attention to this matter. Government of India and State governments have to seriously tackle the issue.

KOLKATA TELEPHONES CIRCLE CONFERENCE; RECEPTION COMMITTEE MEETING HELD.

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The Reception Committee formed for the sucessful conduct of the 3rd biennial circle conference reviewed the progress. Com.Prasant Banerjee, Chairman ,Reception Committee and former Kolkata Mayor presided over the meeting and gave valuable guidance. Coms. Sanjib Banerjee, Circle Secretary and Com.Supriya Mitra, Circle President also addressed the meeting. The circle conference is scheduled to be held on 27-04-2017

The USA role and the bombings in Syria–WFTU STATEMENT.

It is known all over the world that the USA, the European Union, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies have founded, financed and armed the ISIS. Their goal was dismembering Syria and founding new puppet states in order to steal the region’s wealth.

Today, with the USA bombings against Syria, the government of Trump continues the policy of the previous Presidents. Through these bombings, it supports the ISIS. It makes the situation even more dangerous for a generalized war.

The class-oriented trade union movement demands:

– The foreign troops to leave the Region

– To stop the imperialist intervention against Syria and the whole Middle East

– The wealth-producing resources of Syria belong to its people.

– The peoples of the Region are the only ones who have the right to decide freely and democratically on their present and future.

– to stop chemical weapons use by everybody

PACHORA AREA BRANCH UNDER JALGAON DISTRICT IN MAHARASHTRA FORMED.

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A new Area Branch, Pachora, has been formed under Jalgaon District in Maharashtra. The meeting held for this purpose on 08-04-2017 was inaugurated by Com.R.N.Patil, Circle Secretary. Com.A.S.Ingale, Circle Treasurer and Com. M.D.Badhe addressed.

Office bearers with Com.M.S.Patil (President), Com.B.L.Slunke (Secretary) and S.G.Ahire (Treasurer) have been elcted unanimously.

BSNL continues its forward march on new mobile connections

A new achievement by BSNL – Added 29.5 lakh mobile customers in March, 2017.
BSNL has once again did the wonder. It has added 29,52,251 new mobile customers in the month of March, 2017. This may be the highest number of mobile connections given by BSNL in any month. It is very important to note that BSNL has made this achievement, in the face of cut-throat competition from Reliance Jio. Gujarat has come first, by adding 2,82,982 new mobile customers. UP (East) circle has come second, by adding 2,54,542 new mobile customers. BSNLEU heartily congratulates the entire Non-Executives and Executives of BSNL, as well as the Management, for making this achievement. (BSNLEU Website)

SPECIAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF CHENNAI TELEPHONES.

Chennai Telephones circle held a special general body meeting on 05-04-2017 participated by more than 100 members. Com.B.Subramanian, Circle President presided over the meeting. Com.G.S.Narasimhan, Circle Secretary welcomed the gathering. Com.K.Govindaraj, AGS inaugurated the meeting giving a good account of the decisions of the Mysuru CEC and appealed to make the agitational programme a grand success. Com. Vasudevan, Circle Vice President proposed vote of thanks.