Today,October 1 is the 12th Foundation Day of BSNL.Let us strive hard to stregthen BSNL and renew and reaffirm our pledge to protect BSNL by resisting the nefarious game of the UPA government to dismantle it.

5.8% IDA/IDR increase from 1st October 2012.Now the total IDA will be 67.3%(61.5+5.8).Orders not issued.

No matter how the Manmohan Singh government spins the 2G Presidential Reference judgment, the principle at stake in the Supreme Court’s hearing on the allocation of natural resources was not the method of allotment but the need for transparency and fair play. Air and water, for example, are natural resources that no sane person would suggest allocating via an auction. But in the case of 2G spectrum and coal, the allocations made were arbitrary and often mala fide. The government gave the resources away knowing full well there was a better way of allocating them. Aiming to keep call and power prices low was an afterthought, a “policy” invoked to justify caprice. Senior Ministers are now hailing the court’s acknowledgment that the government has the right to allocate natural resources and that auctions, though preferred, are not mandatory. But even as they toast their “victory,” government managers ought to realise what the court has handed them is a poisoned chalice. Indeed, its opinion has placed new riders that will make it harder for discretionary powers to be abused. From now on, the state’s actions have to “be fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory, transparent, non-capricious, unbiased, without favouritism or nepotism, in pursuit of promotion of healthy competition and equitable treatment. It should conform to the norms which are rational, informed with reasons and guided by public interest, etc. All these principles are inherent in the fundamental conception of Article 14,” the judgment says, invoking the constitutional guarantee of equality.

This language makes it virtually impossible for the government to resort to any arbitrary process of allocating scarce, valuable resources, since methods like first-come-first-served, lotteries and beauty parades cannot even begin to pass the new tests. In essence, then, the government can have any process for allocation it wants, so long as it’s an auction. The order’s carefully worded tests on allocation allow an aggrieved party to approach the courts to get an unfair or capricious allocation set aside, even those involving auctions. After all, auctions too can be compromised, as some of the privatisation deals struck by the former National Democratic Alliance government most likely were. While the court said policymaking is the government’s domain, it added “the implementation of policy will be tested and interfered with when found wanting”. The government can celebrate all it wants, but the court’s opinion in no way diminishes the scam taint from 2G and coal. If anything, the court has dealt a blow to crony capitalism by making the process for future allocations far stricter.

Source: The Hindu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted a party to celebrate the anniversary of the UPA Government and the food served costed only Rs.7721 per plate. This is happening in a country where 77 percent of people have a daily income of below Rs.20 and these people are being subjected to furthur miseries in the name of reforms.

Onslaught of central govt against the people continues unabated-In the name of the so called reforms the Manmohan Singh govt has inflicted another burden on the people.This time service tax is imposed on railway passenger fares,cargo and auxilary services.Any hike in cargo would invariably result in furthur  price rise of essential commodities and people are already reeling under rocketing price rise due to various anti-people measurers.

Giving its advisory opinion on the 2G Presidential matter,a five judge constitutional bench has stated auction not sole mode of disposal of resources,but cautioned the centre,alienating scarce natural resources by other means for private gain may be arbitrary and may face the wrath of Article 14

All India Conference being held at Ludhiana has reelected Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri(President)Com.P.Abhimanyu(General Secretary) and Com.S.C.Bhattacharjee(Treasurer) Com.Animesh Mitra from West Bengal is the new Deputy General Secretary.The conference has adopted resolutions on important issues.AIBDPA congratulates all the newly elected comrades.

50000 people joined the march in central Athens on 26th Sep during the general strike against new austerity measures planned in Greece. Everyone-from shopkeepers, pharmacists, teachers, customs workers, railways, civil aviation and bus workers participated in the strike.The govt has hammered out a $14.87 billion package of spending cuts.

It is reported in the press that a proposal of the labour ministry to fix a minimum daily wage to Rs.110 for the workers in the country who are subjected to sheer exploitation,is opposed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.The demand of the central trade unions is Rs.10000 per month and the labour ministry agreed only for Rs.3500 per month.What a  aam aadmi government!