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PROTESTS GALORE IN SPAIN AGAIST AUSTERITY MEASURES.

 

Madrid, Mar 22 Thousands of demonstrators from across Spain gathered at one of Madrid’s main squares to protest against the way the government has tackled the financial crisis by implementing harsh austerity measures.

Organisers had hoped to attract 20,000 protesters to the event, labelled Marches for Dignity, and yesterday evening much of Colon Square and part of Paseo de Recoletos boulevard were packed with people carrying republican flags and banners calling for a general strike.

Hairdresser Dolores Cerezo, 32, who had arrived from southern Sevilla, said the government had cut back “savagely” on public services such as education and the national health service, “but we are seeing many of them now appearing in court suspected of fraud and corruption, of stealing money.”

Scuffles broke out after the main rally ended. Riot police clashed with about 200 protesters who had attacked a bank and a police car.

FOUNDATION DAY OF BSNL EMPLOYEES UNION- 22-03-2015.

BSNL Employees Union is celebrating the 15th Foundation Day of the mighty organization on 22nd March, 2015 all over the country.

It was on 22nd March,2001 the seven telecom unions merged together at Visakhapatnam and formed the BSNL Employees Union in the National Convention held on 21st & 22nd March, 2015. Prominent leaders like Com.E.Balalnandan, President, CITU, Com.K.Adinarayana, Secretary General, NFPE etc had participated in the foundation convention. Office bearers were elected with Com.Sisir Bhattacharjee and Com.Moni Bose, Patrons, Com.J.N.Mishra, President and Com.V. A. N. Namboodiri, General Secretary.

BSNL Employees Union conducted a series of agitations including strikes for the settlement of the genuine demands of the workers. This naturally enthused the workers to rally behind BSNLEU and enabled its victory in all the membership verifications barring the first one. Now,when the 15th foundation is being observed ,BSNLEU has taken the initiative to launch a two day strike on 21-22 April, 2015 under the banner of Forum of BSNL Unions/ Associations for the revival of BSNL.

All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Association and BSNL Casual Contract Workers Federation were formed at the initiative of BSNLEU, which have become major organisations in the respective sectors. And as such, BSNLEU is our parent organization and we are also bound to observe the foundation day of BSNLEU.

46 PSUs TO BE REVIVED AND 9 TO BE CLOSED-SAYS MINISTER FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES

 

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The fate of 9 sick  PSUs and their staff are sealed. The Heavy industries minister has stated in the Parliament that out of 55 sick units, efforts will be made to revive 46 and the rest 9 will be closed down.

The 9 sick units which will be closed include HMT Bearings, Tungabhadra Steel Products, Hindustan Photo Films, HMT Watches, HMT Chinnar Watches, Hindustan Cables and Spices Trading Corporation.

These were all profit making companies. HMT watches was one of the best PSUs manufacturing the best watches in India. It is only due to the anti-PSU policy of the government that all these PSUs have become loss making.

The government is on the move to close down the PSUs, one after another. These should be opposed and defeated. 

78.2% IDA MERGER- MEETING WITH MEMBER(TECHNOLOGY),DOT

 

Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA today, 20th March 2015, met Shri A.K.Bhargava, Member (Technology) and discussed about the early finanlisation of the Cabinet Note on 78.2% IDA pension fixation for the BSNL Pensioners, who retired before 10-06-2013. While the representatives of the AIBDPA met Shri Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Telecom, last week, he has stated that M(T) has been entrusted with the work.

Com. Namboodiri expressed his serious concern and unhappiness in the extreme delay in preparing the Cabinet Note and stated that already many pensioners have already expired without getting the fixation and more may die, if the issue is delayed further. He also pointed out that while the BSNL pensioners retired after 10-06-2013 had got the fixation, it is denied to all who retired before 10-06-2013, which is a big discrimination. He demanded for early preparation for the Cabinet Note.

Member(T) assured that the matter is being examined and the Cabinet Note will be prepared at the earliest.

BSNL REVENUE EXPECTED TO BE Rs.29000 CRORE IN 2014-15-SAYS CMD,BSNL.

BSNL Eyes Rs 29,000 Cr Revenue This Year

 
State run telecom firm BSNL is expected to garner revenue of Rs 29,000 crore in FY 2014-15. The company also believes that it can manage a growth rate of 4 to 5 percent by the end of this fiscal year, its CMD said.
 
“At a growth rate of 4 % to 5%, we hope to cross Rs 29,000 crore this year,” BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava told TeleAnalysis. (News Report)
 
If this happens, it is a turn around for Revival of BSNL.

 

 

STOP SALE OF PSU SHARES.

 

The government is proposing to sell shares of BHEL, NMDC, NALCO, ONGC, PFC, REC etc. in the financial year 2015-16 to mop up about Rs.41,000 crores. These sales are nothing but handing over of the nation’s assets to the corporate bigwigs for a portion of their real worth. There has been huge corruption in the sale of shares earlier and it will be there in future also. These sales of share are nothing but the steps towards privatisation

Handing over the assets of the nation to the corporate should stop.

 

BSNL TO START WiFi AT TOURIST SPOTS.

 

It is reliably learnt that BSNL has plans to start WiFi services in the following tourist spots  for the benefit of the people visiting there. Following are the 10 spots.

Monuments to get WiFi hotspot:

  • Taj Mahal – UP West circle
  • Fatehpur Sikri- UP West circle
  • Sarnath Temple- UP East circle
  • Konark Temple- Odisha circle
  • Jagannath Temple- Odisha circle
  • Bodh Gaya- Bihar circle
  • Shore Temple- Tamil Nadu circle
  • Hampi- Karnataka circle
  • Khajurao- MP circle
  • Thanjaur- Tamil Nadu circle
  • BSNL should start the WiFi in many other places.

 

SPECTRUM AUCTION- BID REACHES Rs. 1.07 LAKH CRORE.

 

By 17th March, 2015 the Spectrum bids have reached Rs. 1.07 lakh crore. The government will certainly get a bonanza.

But what about the consumers? It is afraid that the private companies who have taken thousands of crores of rupees from the Banks for bidding will certainly raise the charges. The consumers will be compelled to pay more. Since BSNL and MTNL are in the field, it will not be so much easy for the private companies to increase much. We can watch the developments

BROADBAND- BSNL LOOSES FIRST POSITION.

BSNL was always in the first position in Land lines and Broadband with its valuable cables and OFC. It was thought no body can capture that position. But unfortunately, the latest statistics from TRAI gives another picture. BSNL has been relegated to the second position by Airtel.

The present market share in Broadband is as follows: Airtel 21.48%, BSNL 20.18%, Vodafone 18.91%, Idea 14.94 % and Reliance 14.94%. The balance are with small companies.

Now it is only in landline that BSNL is in No. 1 position. But again, BSNL lost 1.32 lakh connections in January 2015 alone. At present BSNL has got 1.68 crore connections only.

In mobile sector BSNL lost 12.36 lakh connections in January 2015. At present it has got only 8.01 crore mobile connections just more than one third of what Airtel has got, which is 22.0 crore.

SAVE BSNL – SAVE NATION Campaign has to be energitised. The Management and workers have to discuss why the loss is happening and find out remedies to improve our position.