Letter

Tele Pensioner January- March,2013 issue has been posted to all the subscribers and utmost care was taken to ensure that all are incuded in the correct address.However if anybody does not get it within a fortnight it may kindly be intimated to CHQ for alternate arrangement.

Shri.M.F.Farooqui,Senior IAS Officer will be the new Secretary,Department of Telecom.
Mr.Farooqui is currently Secretary in the department of heavy industry is to replace Shri.R.Chadrasekhar,who retires at the end of this month.
Mr.Farooqui is a Tamil Nadu cadre IAS Officer of 1978 batch and will have a15 month tenure as DOT Secretary before he retires on superannuation.

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IDA increase is 3.4% w.e.f. 01-04-2013. The total IDA, thus payable comes to 74.9% ( 71.5% +3.4% =74.9%). Similarly, the IDA increase on pre- revised pay scales is 5.8% and the total IDA payable on pre- revised pay scales comes to 195.3% ( 189.5% + 5.8%= 195.3% )

General Secretary letter to Secretary, DOT and CMD, BSNL – conveying the decisions of the All India Conference

Letter to BSNL

Letter to DOT

BSNL ISSUES ORDER ON 22ND MARCH,2013 EXTENDING 60% BROADBAND CONCESSION TO ABOVE JAG LEVEL BSNL RETIREES.
WELL AND GOOD.
BUT THE SAME HAS TO BE EXTENDED TO THE DOT RETIREES.

Order

Order

Com. V.A.N. Namboodiri, President, BSNLEU & Advisor AIBDPA, Com. K.G. Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA and Com. Adhir Kr. Sen, Vice President, BSNLEU, met Shri V. Umasankar, Joint Secretary (T) Department of Telecom on 19th March, 2013 and urged for early approval of 78.2% IDA fixation. The Joint Secretary stated that there has been objection from the DPE (Department of Public Enterprises) in this issue on the plea that BSNL has become a sick unit. The leaders replied that it was the directive of DPE to revise wages in PSUs with 78.2% IDA fixation w.e.f. 01.01.2007 and at that time BSNL was not a sick unit. The Joint Secretary then assured that he will do the needful to settle the issue favourably without sending the file to DPE.

Regarding the USO Fund of Rs.1500 crore granted to BSNL, the payment is likely to be delayed as the proposal was submitted to the Department of Expenditure after finalization of allocation for the supplementary budget. However, the Joint Secretary agreed for early refund of Rs.6500 crore levied from BSNL towards additional spectrum charges.