Com. K G jayaraj, General Secretary visited Sanchar Bhawan to meet the Member (Finance) to ascertain the progress on payment of the first installment of ex-gratia to the VRS retirees. Unfortunately he was not available and has met Shri.Amitab Ranjan Sinha, DDG(Accounts) Department of Telecommunications on 27-02-2020.  

The DDG( Accounts) stated that the amount for the first installment of ex-gratia to the VRS reirees will be  made over to BSNL once BSNL gives the required data on the actual requirement and hoped to fulfil before the target date of March 31, 2020.

On issuing PPOs to the VRS retirees, DDG clarified that the work is being carried out satifactorily in almost all CCAs. 

Kharagpur District delegation led by Coms.Susanta Ghosh, CHQ Vice President & Circle President and Madhup Sengupta, District Secretary have met Shri. Kunar Hembram, MP, Jhargram on 26-02-2020. The delegation brought to his notice the issue of pension revision pending unsettled for the last three years and gave him a letter on the issue and handed over a copy of the memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister. The MP assured the delegation appropriate action in the matter. Coms.Anupam Saha (District President), R Singh and C R Majumdar were the other members of the delegation.

Our Berhampore District delegation had a nice meeting with Shri.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury ,MP and leader of Congress in Lok Sabha on 25-02-2020. The delegation briefed him on BSNL pension revision issue and handed over a letter and copy of memorandum being submitted to the Prime Minister. The MP was very positive and assured the delegation all the possible efforts on his part.

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The second phase of the agitational program called by AUAB, Hunger Strike on 24-02-2020 has been held successfully throughout the country. The agitation was oraganised demanding immediate payment of salary of January, 2020, timely payment of salary, immediate payment of 10 months wages to the contract workers, immediate implementation of revival package etc. In New Delhi , the hunger strike was addressed by the leaders of AUAB constituent unions and associations. Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary along with a good number of AIBDPA members participated fully. Reports received indicate that in almost all places, AIBDPA members joined the Hunger Strike as per the call of CHQ.

The 5th biennial District Conference of Tripura District Branch has been held with large participation of pensioners at Matangini Pritilata Sabhagriha, Agartala on 22-02-2020. Com.B C Pal, District President and the Vice Presidents were in the presidium. Com.M C Bhowmik, District Secretary welcomed and presented the biennial report followed by the audited accounts by Com.Ganesh Goswami., Treasurer.  20 delegates participated actively in the discussion on the report covering various issues of the pensioners, current political situation, BSNL revival package and the struggles being launched by AIBDPA for pension revision. Thereafter the report and accounts were adopted by the conference. Leaders of BSNLEU,SNEA, AIBSNLEA, AICCWF also addressed the conference.

Office bearers were elected unanimously with Coms. B C Pal (President), Mintu Chandra Bhowmik (District Secretary) and Mohendra Bebnath (Treasurer)

Com.N Guruprasad, Circle Secretary inaugurated the Kottayam District Convention at NGO Union Hall, Vaikom on 22-02-2020. Com. K E Abraham, District President presided over the convention. Com.C R Ponnappan , District Secretary welcomed the gathering including VRS retirees. In his inaugural address, Com.N Guruprasad explained the issues of the pensioners including pension revision and the ongoing agitations, medical claims, issues of VRS retirees and efforts of CHQ for grant of provisional pension and the post VRS scenario in BSNL. Coms. T K Gopi (KSSPU),V S Thankappan (CGPA), Amruthakumar and Karthikeyan also addressed. Senior comrades and the VRS retirees were honoured by Com.N Guruprasad. With vote of thanks by Com.Jose T George, the convention came to an end.