The Union Cabinet has today, the 28th October, 2025 has finally formed the 8th Central Pay Commission after 10 months of declaration in January, 2025.
The three member Commission will be headed by Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. The other members are;
Prof. Pulak Ghosh, Professor, IIM Bangalore (Member, Part Time) and Shri Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas (Member, Secretary)
The Terms of Reference also has been released.
TRICHUR- FOUNDATION DAY AND REMEMBRANCE OF COM.PVC WAS INAUGURATED BY COM.V A N NAMBOODIRI.
Visakhapatnam District Branch in addition to holding the meeting , distributed sweets, fruits and blankets to the physically disabled children.
Dhar District branch in Madhya Pradesh held its conference on 14-19-2025. The inaugural session was converted to a Seminar on BSNL. Com. Madanlal Yadav, District President was in the chair. Com. Devilal Mandlekar, District Secretary welcomed one an all. Com.H S Thakur, Circle Secretary, Com.Prakash Sharma, CirclePresident, BSNLEU, Shri.Ghanasyam Namadev, GM(Operations), BSNL, and a host of leaders addressed. In the subject session office bearers were elected unanimously with Com. Madanlal Yadav (President) Com.Devilal Mandlekar ( District Secretary) Com.Rajendra Bavasthar (Treasurer).
16 Years of Glorious Struggles and Achievements
All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA) is completing 16 years of dedicated service to pensioners. Yes, we are celebrating the 17th Foundation Day of AIBDPA on 21-10-2025.
Our Journey
The last 16 years have been full of activities, particularly continuous struggles waged for settlement of the genuine demands of the pensioners and against the injustices meted out by the government and the bureaucracy. AIBDPA has been in the forefront of the struggles organised by NCCPA, Joint Forum of BSNL MTNL Pensioners Associations and the Coordination Committee of AIBDPA – BSNLEU – BSNLCCWF.
International Affiliations
AIBDPA is a founder Member of the Trade Union International (Pensioners & Retirees) and our General Secretary is the Vice-Secretary of the same. AIBDPA has implemented all the calls of WFTU and TUI(P&R) effectively.
Achievements
We have been able to achieve many important issues of the pensioners, viz:
Individual Cases
In addition to the general issues, some of the pending issues unresolved for long, particularly family pension cases, were taken up and settled with payment of lakhs of rupees as arrears to the beneficiaries. AIBDPA always paid much importance in settling of individual cases and have been successful in settling them to a large extent by continuous intervention at all levels.
Growth and Status
All these have helped us for the steady growth of the organisation and earned a prominent status not only at National level but at International level also.
Pending Issues
Still, we have to go a long way as some of the important issues like pension revision from 01-01-2017, payment of retirement benefits to the ST VRS Retirees of Maharashtra etc are still pending settlement despite our best efforts.
5th Triennial All India Conference
All these problems will be discussed seriously in the ensuing 5th Triennial All India Conference to be held at Coimbatore on 17-18 December, 2025 and appropriate decisions taken.
Call to Action
Under the Globalisation-Liberalisation-Corporatisation policy, hard earned rights of workers and pensioners are being attacked and denied. In the wider struggles against these, AIBDPA will be side by side with BSNL workers as also with the working class. It is under these circumstances that we are celebrating the 17th Foundation Day of AIBDPA on 21st October, 2025. Let us celebrate the Foundation Day by holding meetings and other programmes with massive participation.
Unity and Struggle.
AIBDPA ZINDABAD! PENSIONERS UNITY ZINDABAD! INQUILAB ZINDABAD!