Kolkata Circle Banch has remitted an. amount of
Rs.7600/ to the Uttarakhand Relief Fund.

Com.K.G.Jayaraj,General Secretary has joined CHQ. on today,the
26th July,2013.He will be available at CHQ for about three weeks.
He may be contacted at his Delhi mobile No.09013714470.
Actually he was to join CHQ on 20th July and started his journey
on 18th July.On 19th just before reaching Panvel,he got a message
stating that his first cousin,Shri.D.Rajendra Babu(76),who was dear to him more than his brother was dead.So he got down at Panveel and reached Andheri,
Mumbai late in the night.He took part in the creamation held on
20th July evening and had to remain in Mumbai upto. 25th July
Therefore he could not attend the National Executive Committee
Meeeting of NCCPA held on 20th July and also BCPC.meetng on 21st
July in New Delhi.However,Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri,Advisor has attebded
both meetings onbehalf of AIBDPA..

Contributions received from the following disticts in. Kerala
Circle are acknowledged.

Kottayam. -Rss.10000
Alappuzha. -Rs. 5000
Palakkad. -Rs. 5000
Kozhikode. -Rs. 3000
Malappuram. Rs. 2500
Ernakulam. Rs. 1000

The follwing donations are also received to the
Uttarakhand Relief Fund.

Jamnagar District in Gujarat Circle.-Rs.12250
Gujarat Circle Branch. -Rs. 2100
Tuticorin. Disttrict in TamilNadu. -Rs. 3000
Bangalore District in Karnataka. -Rs. 5000

Few more donations are received to Uttarakhand Fund.

Kurnool in Andhra Circle-Rs.5000
Rajasthan Circle. – Rs.5000

Kindly intimate CHQ any payments made towads
Uttarakhand Fund by SMS message in mobile
No.09447455633.

More districts have contributed to the Uttarakhand Relief Fund.
Kannur in Kerala Circle. -Rs.10000
Vellore in Tamil Nadu. -Rs. 8200
Muzaffarnagar in UP(W). -Rs. 5000
Thrissur in Kerala. -Rs 2000
Chennai inTamil Nadu. -Rs.2000p

Chennai Telephones. -Rs2000
Erode inTamilnadu. -Rs.3000
Nagercoil in Tamilnadu. -Rs.1500
Virudhunagar in TamilnaduRs.3000
Pondicherry in Tamilnadu. Rs.1500

The department of expenditure has decided to alloot. Rs.1300 cr to the
proposed Post Bank. of India to meet the capital equirements.
Tomeet Reserve Bank of India’s norms,the postal department proposes
a new entity-Post Bank of India with an independent board and seperate
operations.Apart from independent directors,the board will have
repesentatives from the finance ministrry and the postal department.
Post Bank of India will have 50 branches in the first year which will be
increased to 150 branches by fifth year.
These branches will be located in select Head Post Offices in tier 1-4 centres
and select Sub Post Offices in tier 5-6 centres.
Post Bank of India has already sought a banking licence from RBI to initiate
operations as a commercial bank.

It is eported n the press that home ministry has opposed the commerce
minisrty’s proposal to hike the cap. on foiegn direct investment
in print and broadcasting media int the country.
Home ministry has expressed strong opposition against allowing increase
in the FDI from 26% to 49%,as it would cause serious consequences even
endanger the the internal security of the country.
The report. in the press furthur says that a high level meeting chaired by
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Jully 16,did not clear the proposal for
increasing FDI in broadcasting and print media through the automatic
route.
This is nothing but a drama.It is very much in our memory,Shri.A.K.Antony
had opposed hike in. FDI cap.in defence using sharp language but surrendered
meekly later on intervention by the higherups,as the ruling class is bent upon
to mortgage the country to their foriegn masters.

Revision of provisional pension sanctioned – View details

All India BSNL-DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA) has been formed at Indore in a largely attended meeting. The meeting was organised under initiative of the BSNL Employees Union. Com. Jagdish Soni, senior leader and president of BSNLEU presided. Com. Prakash Sharma, District secretary, BSNLEU welcomed all. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President BSNLEU and Advisor AIBDPA inaugurated the Convention. He spoke in detail about the latest developments in the telecom sector, the issues facing the revival of BSNL, issues of the workers like early implementation of 78.2% IDA fixation both for employees and pensioners etc. Shri G.C.Pande, General Manger, BSNL, Indore, H.S.Thakkur, Circle secretary, AIBDPA, M.L.Chaudhary and other leaders addressed. Com. T.R.Deharia proposed vote  of thanks.Com. Namboodiri and other leaders were warmly welcomed and honoured. Leaders of the various associations/unions in BSNL attended the convention.

The meeting of the pensioners were held after the convention. The issues of pensioners and the decisions of AIBDPA were explained by Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri. The AIBDPA SSA union was formed with election of  office-bearers unanimously with Coms. Sriram Tiwari (Advisor), V.R.Kolhapure (Patron), Jagdish Soni (President), S.M.Lekhre (Secretary) and M.B.Naidu (Treasurer)