A. mammoth national convention of BSNL employyees was held today,
the 3rd. August,2013 at Mavalankar hall in the auspices of Forum of
BSNL unions/associations , chaired by Com.Chandeshar Singh,General
Secretary,NFTE. and Chairman of Forum.
Com.V.A.N.NAMBOODIRI,Convenor of Forum and President,BSNLEU
presented.the paper of Declaration containing the issues confronting
BSNL and propsals for the revival of BSNL.
Thereafter representing the central trade unions,Com.Gurudas Dasgupta
M.P and General Secretary,AITUC,,Shri. Baijnath. Rai,General Secretary,
BMS,Com.Swadesh Dev Roy,Secretary,CITU spoke and assured all support
to the. Struggles to protect BSNL.
All the. General. Srsretaries of the constituent unions incuding. Com.K.
Sebatian(SNEA),Com.Prahlad Rai(AIBSNLEA),Com.Animesh. Mitra(BSNLEU)
Com.K.Mathivanan(NFTE),Com.K.Jayaprrakash(FNTO),Com.Sureshkumar
(BSNLMS)Com.R.Venkitaraman(TEPU) etc also spoke.
Similar conventions will be held at circle and SSA. levels to give wide
propaganda of the issues.
The convention also decided to fight against the anti-BSNL policies of the
Govt and.also for a better future of the employees.
Representing AIBDPA,Com.K.G.Jayaraj,General Secretary and some of the
Cirrcle Secretaries,Com.B.P.Petkar(Maharashtra)Com.H.S.Thakur(MP)
etc participated in the convention.

The supreme court has agreed to hear the pleas of all the accused in the
2G spectrum allocation case against its earlier order barring any other
court from taking up the matter.It has issued notices on a petition filed by
Reliance Telecom to set aside the order.
The Reliance Telecom has stated in the petition that the apex. Court’s
order directing the accused in the 2G case to come directly to it,bypassing
the high court,was illegal..
What. actually irked the telecom giant.may be summoning of it,s Chairman
Anil. Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani by a special. Court as witnesses. The
Company has also challenged the jurisdication of the court to monitor the
case and sought to quash the chargesheet.
It was only after the sttrong intervention of the supreme court the central
government was compelled to take some action in the. 2G case.

According to the consumer price index,the. Central government
Employees and pensioners have become eligible to get 10% hike
in their DA/DR.from 1st July,2013.Now the DA/DR will increase from
the present 80% to 90%.
The order is yet to be issued.

The proposal of the central government to sell 10% of its stake in Coal. India
toraise Rs.20000 crore was resisted strongly by the unions who prepared for
Strike.Now eventually the sale has been .halved to 5% after an
agreement with the. Unions,Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal has
said.

The. Central government is bent upon to privatise even profit
makking PSUs despite opposition from all the unions and continue
the same policy even after successful two dayss.strike on February
20,21-2013.
National Convention of Centra. Trade. Unions.
In. this context,the decision of the central. Trade unions to hold
the. National. Convention on. 6th August,2013 to decide. future
course of. action ,is most significant.

The Supeme court has issed notices to the central government,
Reliance Industries Ltd and Oil. Minister Veerappa Moily on a
petition that challenges the cabinet decision to raise natural gas
price and seeks a bigger financial penalty on RIL for alleged
suppression of gas output in anticipation of higher prices.
The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P.Sathasivam,Ranjana
Desai and Ranjan Gogoi.on 29th July heard the petition filed by
CPI MP Gurudas Das Gupta and former power secretary E A S
Sarma.
Dasgupta had earlier written to. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
against the cabinet decision to raise the gas price from the current
$4.2 per unit to $8.4 next April.
The Chief Justice has said “We can”t dismiss the assertions made by
a senior member of paliament in limeline and. We will examine the
reliefs”
The petition against the government as well as RIL”s partners BPA &
Niko Resources seeks an addiitional penalty of $1 billion on the
stakeholders in the KG-D6 Block.When Jaipal Reddy was the oil
Minister,he had withheld recovery of $1 billion of field-development
costs saying the relatively small quantity of gas produced did not
justify the expenditure.

TRAI has asked telecom operatos to make avilable a system
to the mobile users whereby they can make complaints against
poor net work coverage or inflated bills throug text messagges,
email,regular post or couriers.

TRAL proposed this amendment in complaint norms on. 30th
July,2013,adding that customers be allowed to appeal before
Appellate Authority,the top body in customer grievence redressal.
The apex boody has observed that customer care and nodal officers
has not been able to resolve problem faced by customes.
Directives and suggestions are many but how far the private
Telecom companies bother to implement!

Even while the ruling combine at the Centre claims of economic growth after persuing neo-liberal policies since 1991, the result is that the disparity between the rich and poor widened many-fold.

According to the data collected by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO),the average spend of the richest group in urban areas was 12 times that of the poorest group in 2000; In 2012, it has increased to 15 fold. In rural areas, the disparity increased from 7 to 10 times in these 12 years.

The new economic policy has resulted in the GDP Growth for most of this period; but has not tickled down to the neediest. Rather is benefiting the already affluent sector more. The Reliances, Tatas and other richest have flourished and the poor perished or cornered.

THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF AIBDPA IS
DECIDED TO BE HELD AT. JAIPUR,RAJASTHAN ON 5TH & 6TH
OCTOBER,2013!
ALL THE. CEC. MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO RESERVE THEIR
TICKETS FOR. THE TO AND FRO JOURNEY WELL. IN. ADVANCE
AND ENSURE THEIR PARTICIPATION..

The following contributions are received towads the
Uttarakhand Relief Fund.
Tuticorin District in TamilNadu circle.Rs.3000
North East II Circle Branch-Rs.2500

Karnataka circle has donated Rs.40000(Forty. Thousand)
as the first installment to the Uttarakhand relief fund.