All India Insurance Employees Association has decided to strike work against the move of the Central Government to raise the cap of FDI in insurance from the current 26% to 49%,  only to appease the imperialist forces. The public sector insurance companies, both Life Insurance and General Insurance are performing well and contributing much to the development of the country. As such there is absolutely no need to increase the FDI limit in insurance. But Narendra Modi government is all set to introduce the Insurance Laws (Amendment) bill in the Parliament,

CHQ calls upon all the AIBDPA units to conduct solidarity demonstration on the day of the strike of the insurance employees.

According to the Labour Ministry, the DA for the Central Government employees and pensioners from !st July,2014 will be 107%. The orders in this regard is yet to be issued.

Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri, Advisor AIBDPA has addressed massive meetings at Vellore and Chennai in Tamilnadu.

At Vellore, the meeting was held on 31st July,2014 in which more than 250 comrades participated. Com. V. Elumalai, District President presided over the meeting and Com. Jothi Sudanthiranathan, District Secretary welcomed the gathering. Inaugurating the meeting Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri explained in detail the issues confronting the pensioners, current position with regard to 78.2% IDA merger, issues presented to the 7th Pay Commission and the decisions of Coimbatore CEC.  Com.C. K. Narasimhan, Circle Secretary, Com. K. Arumugam, CHQ Organising Secretary and Com. C. Gnanasekharan, District Secretary, BSNLEU addressed the meeting.

CHENNAI MEETING ON 01-08-2014.

The meeting was held jointly by the Circle units of AIBDPA ,BSNLEU and BSNL CCWF. Com. K. Govindarajan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU welcomed the gathering of more than 400 including about 100 women comrades. Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri, in his inaugural address gave a good account of developments taking place in the country and the various issues on which the CECs of the three unions have taken decisions for agitations. Com. C. K. Narasimhan, Circle Secretary, AIBDPA, Com. Punitha Udayakumar, CHQ Vice President, BSNLEU and Com. K. Arumugam,CHQ Organising Secretary, AIBDPA spoke. The meeting was presided jointly by the Presidents of three organisations.

Com. K. G. Jayaraj, General Secretary has contacted the Department of Expenditure on 31st August and has learnt that they are proposing to seek cabinet approval for 78.2% IDA merger for those retired between 01-01-2007 and 09-06-2013 also. According to them , the pension paid to BSNL retirees is more than 60% of BSNL payments after 2010 and therefore cabinet approval is necessary. CHQ is trying to meet the higher officers at the Department of Expenditure to avoid such an eventuality. 

Coimbatore District Conference was held on 29th July, 2014 and a large number of pensioners participated. Com.K. Murugan presided over the meeting which was inaugurated by Com. C. K. Narasimhan, Circle Secretary. Com. K. G. Jayaraj, General Secretary, Com. K. Kaliprasad & Com. K. Arumugam, CHQ Org. Secretaries, Com. S. Mohandoss, CHQ Vice President & Circle President, Com. C. Rajendran, District Secretary, BSNLEU, Com Presannan, District Secretary, SNEA and Com. Ravi, District Secretary, TNTCWU addressed the conference. Com, L. Umapathy, Dist Secretary presented the biennial report and accounts and passed after discussion.

Office bearers were elected unanimously with Com. V. Subramoniyam (President) Com. L. Umapathy (Dist.Secretary) and Com. Makaliappan (Treasurer)

Coimbatore CEC has decided to call upon all its units to support the agitations of JAC of Non Executives Unions of BSNL on pending issues starting with Demands Day on 07-08-2014. The Casual Contract Workers Federation has decided  to conduct a phased programme of action,  to achieve their genuine demands, as follows;

1. Dharna  at SSA level on 26-08-2014.

2. March to CGMT office on 25-09-2014

3.March to CMD office on 15-10-2014.

The Coimbatore CEC held on 29th & 30th July, 2014 had nominated a resolution committee comprising Com. P. Asokababu,Vice President, Com. Susanta Ghosh, Vice President and Com. M. R. Das, AGS. They presented resolutions on the following issues and were adopted unanimously.

1. Pending issues including 78.2% IDA merger, restoration of quarterly medical allowance, anomaly in pension, Rs.2500 FMA to DOT pensioners and demands incuded in the memorandum submitted to  the 7th Pay Commission, viz merger of DA in full, 25%  interim relief etc.

2.Scrap PFRDA act.

3. Revival of BSNL in Consultation with the unions.

4. Maintain communal harmony.

5. Stop attacks on trade union workers including BSNLEU, AIBDPA by Trinamool goons in West Bengal.

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The participants in the Coimbatore CEC were all in appreciation for the excellent arrangements made by the Reception Committee led by Com. L. Umapathy, General Convenor and District Secretary, AIBDPA, Coimbatore . There is no second opinion that this was one of the major factors for the spectacular success of the Central Executive Committee held at Coimbatore on 29th & 30th July,2014. In the resolution, adopted by the CEC, the Reception Committee was congratulated and thanked for the sincere and hard work of the Reception Committee comrades of both AIBDPA and BSNLEU.

The Coimbatore CEC has nominated, Com. M. P. Kunhanandan, Assistant Circle Secretary, Kerala  as CHQ Treasurer after accepting the resignation of Com. G. B. Salakki

Com. M. P. Kunhanandan, ever since joining duty was an active worker of the union and served in several capacities including Assistant Circle Secretary of Engineering Class III union. After his promotion as JTO, he was elected Circle Organising Secretary of SNEA and continued until his retirement as SDE.  Being a committed comrade, Com. M. P. Kunhanandan had no hesitation to take up the responsibility of Assistant Circle Secretary, AIBDPA, Kerala and now the CHQ Treasurer.

He belongs to Kozhikode and can be contacted at  94460 17530.

The two days Central Executive Committee Meeting held at Coimbatore on 29th & 30th July,2014 has created another milestone in the history of All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Association. The CEC discussed threadbare all the important issues with  seriousness  which helped to take suitable decisions.

The CEC under the presidentship of Com. A. K. Bhattacharjee, President was effectively guided by Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA & President, BSNLEU. The meeting decided to launch another agitational programme, proposed by Com. K. G. Jayaraj, General Secretary,  to achieve the genuine demands including, scrapping of PFRDA act, Revival of BSNL, 78.2% IDA merger, Restoration of quarterly medical allowance, Anomaly in pension, merger of DA in full and 25% interim relief.   

The programme is as follows.

1. CAMPAIGN WEEK BY HOLDING DISTRICT LEVEL CONVENSIONS DURING THE LAST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER,2014.

2. SANCHAR BHAWAN/ BHARAT SANCHAR BHAWAN MARCH IN NOVEMBER, 2014 (EXACT DATE TO BE DECIDED LATER)