WORLD ELDERS DAY HELD BEFITTINGLY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

TUI(P&R) had given a call to observe World Elders Day as the sixth Struggle Day on 01-10-2021 focusing the demand of a Decent and Dignified Life for the elders. Accordingly the call was endorsed by the three affiliated organisations of TUI(P&R), NCCPA, AIBDPA and AIPRPA. CHQ is happy to note that the Day has been observed in almost all the circles, in most of the places jointly with other pensioners organisations. Flag hoistings, demonstrations , meetings etc were held in various places braving Covid19 pandemic and inclement weather. In Tamil Nadu, a well represented webinar was held by the Circle NCCPA. CHQ heartily congratulate all the comrades for making it a memorable event.

NCCPA organised a National level Webinar at 4PM on 01-10-2021. Com. V A N Namboodiri, Patron, NCCPA predided. Com. A K Padmanabhan, Vice President, CITU delivered the keynote address and highlighted the point that the social security of the elders is cetainly linked with the social system being adopted in each country and the hope is the Struggle. Coms. Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, NJCM (Staff Side), K K N Kutty, Secretary General, NCCPA, K G Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA, Com.Mohan, Tamil Nadu Circle General Secretary, AIPRPA and Pabitra Chakraborty, Deputy Secretary General, NCCPA spoke on the issues of the pensioners and the elders.

OBSERVE WORLD ELDERS DAY BEFITTINGLY ON 01-10-2021.

As already been intimated , we have to observe the World Elders Day at all levels in a befitting manner. The call for the observance was given well in advance by the TUI(P&R) to highlight the genuine demands of the elderly people; DECENT AND DIGNIFIED LIFE TO ALL THE ELDERS. Ensure decent pension, Medical Care, Housing, Potable water and Transport Facilities, Entertainment and Ensure Old Age pension to all the senior citizens.

NCCPA has organised a National Webinar at 4PM on 01-10-2021. Com.A K Padmanabhan, Vice President, CITU will present the keynote address. Coms. Shiv Gopal Mishra, V A N Namboodiri, K K N Kutty, K G Jayaraj, K Ragavendran etc will also address. All the CHQ Office Bearers, Circle Secretaries and District Secretaries are requested to join the programme. The link will be sent later.

District Branches are requested to observe the programme according to local conditions, jointly with other pensioners organisations as far as possible, by holding demonstration, meetings etc exhibiting placards, flags and banners. The photos be sent to CHQ and ensure media coverage also.

KARIM NAGAR DISTRICT BRANCH FORMED.

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A new District Branch has been formed at Karim Nagar in Telangana Circle. Coms. D Shankar, CHQ Vice President, Ramachandradu, Circle Secretary and T Seshaiah, District Secretary, Hyderabad participated and addressed the meeting. The leaders explained the issues of the pensioners, crisis being faced by BSNL and the efforts and struggles of AIBDPA for settlement.

It is worth mentioning that a lady comrade, R. Sobharani has taken up the responsibility of District Secretary among the office bearers elected unanimously. Com. R Prathap (President) and Com.S Ramesh (Treasurer) are the other important functionaries. CHQ heartily congratulate Com.R Sobharani and her team and assures all the co-operation and help in the successful functioning of the district branch.

NEW DISTRICT BRANCH, CORE NETWORK TRANSMISSION EAST FORMED IN WEST BENGAL.

The first conference of ETR was held at Shibdas Banerjee Hall (Telephone Bhawan) on 25-09-2021. Coms. Asis Das and Biplab Das constituted the presidium and controlled the proceedings. Com.Imran Khan, District Secretary, BSNLEU inaugurated the conference. Coms.P K Modak, Branch Secretary and Debasish Chakraborty presented the report and accounts and were adopted after discussion. Com. Pijush Chakraborty summed up with an elaborate speech covering the recent developments and the ongoing agitational programmes of AUAB and Coordination Committee of BSNLEU, AIBDPA & BSNL CCWF. It was decided to upgrade the status of the branch to the Distrct. Coms. Asis Das (President) Samir Halder(District Secretary) and Debasish Chakraborty (Treasurer) are the important office bearers elected unanimously.

IMPRESSIVE AND ENTHUSIASTIC 3 DAYS DHARNA AT JANTAR MANTAR, NEW DELHI BY AUAB CONCLUDED.

DHARNA ON 23-09-2021
LEADERS IN THE DHARNA ON 23-09-2021
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DHARNA ON 22-09-2021

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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE DHARNA ON 22-09-2021

The three days Dhrna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 21,22,23 September, 2021 has been a morale booster to the employees and pensioners. The 10 point charter of demands including Pension Revision, Wage Revision, 30% SAB to BSNL recruited employees, Timely payment of salary, Immediate roll out of 4G services, Payment of Rs.39,000 cr by DOT has given a new hope to the employees and pensioners and they participated in large numbers and made the programme memorable.

CHQ had called upon our Delhi Circle and other nearby Circles to make suitable arrangements in consultation with the respective AUAB Units to ensure the participation of our members on all the three days. CHQ is happy that our Circles rose to the occasion and played a crucial role in making the programme a grand success. 256 Comrades from AIBDPA have taken part and the breakup figures are given here under;

September 21

NTR Delhi -50, Punjab 20 Total – 70

September 22

NTR Delhi-40 Haryana-82, ALTTC-03 UP(E)-03 Total-128

September 23

NTR Delhi-10,UP(E)-03,Rajasthan-05,UO(W)-40 Total- 58

Grand Total- 256.

CHQ heartily thank and congratulate all the participants who have displayed a high level of solidarity.

PRAKASAM DISTRCT CONFERENCE HELD SUCCESSFULLY.

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Prakasam District has held its biennial conference at Ongole on 19-09-2021. The open session was held jointly with BSNLEU and was addressed by a host of leaders including Com. P Asokababu, CHQ Vice President, K Ramadevi, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU. Com. V Venkaiah presided over the subject session. Com.S K Aziz, District Secretary presented the report and accounts which were adopted after discussion. Coms. Mohamad Yaseen, S K Aziz and Sastrulu have been unanimously elected President, District Secretary and Treasurer, respectively.

AUAB 3 DAYS DHARNA STARTED AT JANTAR MANTAR, NEW DELHI.

The three days Dharna by AUAB, a very important programme of Agitation has started at Jantar Mantar on 21-09-2021. The demands are prominently displaced which include Wage Revision, Pension Revision, 30% SAB to BSNL recruited employees, Immediate launching of 4G, Immediate payment of Rs.39,000 crore due from DoT, timely payment of salary. The Dharna is being addressed by leaders of the AUAB, including Coms.Chandeswar Singh(Chairman) P Abhimanyu (Convenor) K Sebastin, GS, SNEA.There is very good participation and pensioners are also participating as per the call of CHQ.

NCCPA CIRCULAR ON INTERNATIONAL ELDERS DAY.

Organize the World Pensioners and Retirees!

NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEEOF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.

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Dated: 12TH SEPTEMBER,, 2021.

Dear Comrades!


ORGANIZE EFFECTIVELY 1st OCTOBER TUI CALL

We send herewith a copy of TUI (P & R) letter calling upon its affiliates to observe Ist October, 2021 as the “DAY OF ELEDERLY’. Being an affiliate of TUI, we did observe the day on Ist October, 2020 in the midst of the raging corona virus pandemic. This year is no different as only a fraction of our country men could be vaccinated. However, the situation is slightly better as most of the government offices and private institutions have opened for operation, though not fully.

FOR A DIGNIFIED LIFE THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES is the slogan NCCPA calls upon its affiliates and state units to organise the programme through demonstration, rally, dharna, etc. as they deem fit as per the local conditions and send photographs to us for onward transmission to the TUI Headqarters.

With greetings,

fraternally,

Sd/-KKN Kutty Secretary General.

TUI CIRCULAR:

6th WORLD DAY OF STRUGGLE FOR PENSIONERSDAY OF THE ELDERLY OCTOBER 1, 2,021

The elderly, whose date of remembrance for the United Nations and of our struggle, is the 1st of October, that last year we spent more or less at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and the current one we face at the height of vaccination, although only for some countries and some sectors of the population.The pandemic, like any crisis, only uncovered the pot, to highlight the economic and social scourges, which are inherent (structural and systemic) to the capitalist system, such as the great inequality, between a small group of the world bourgeoisie, of those who are representatives of the imperialist phase, and the vast majority of the world population, limited and lacking all basic services, which must survive in a high percentage of subhuman conditions.

The pandemic has meant the worsening of working conditions, unjustified layoffs, wage cuts, the bankruptcy of small businesses, but none of this is new, only now the pandemic serves as an argument, the pandemic has become the front man of the capitalist system, because all the ills of the system are being put in the name of the pandemic.

The conditions through which we, the elderly, have had to travel, existed since before the pandemic, the abuses in homes, residences, and nursing homes, the lack of free medical care and medicines, the misery pensions for retirees, the absence of pensions for the majority of the elderly people in the world, which go hand in hand with the illicit and corrupt enrichment of private retirement fund organizations; in the assault of the world’s private banks on the resources of those who gave their lives to enrich them, before when we were active workers they exploited us, now when we are retirees they steal from us.

We older people are a responsibility of the State, beyond the fact that in the stage of our previous life we have worked more years or less years, with more or less remuneration, because to give us work and a decent remuneration, is also the responsibility of that State. Then every elderly person should have guaranteed conditions for a dignified life, like any human being.

It has become clear, as without a pandemic, that some people and countries are more important than others, because, for example, the pharmaceutical transnationals hand in hand with the rich countries have crowded a few countries with vaccines until they have surpluses, while the poor countries have a dropper, or it does not reach them. It is simply imperialist behaviour at this stage of capitalist development.But it has also become clear that there is an ideological pandemic, which created in the laboratories of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, is lashing out at our peoples, with a variety of social democratic theories of class conciliation, which is aimed especially at workers, in order to make them believe that their situation of misery is negotiable, and that it can be fixed without fundamentally altering the capitalist system as such.

They are even capable of questioning neoliberalism, to proposing supposed and non-existent variants of socialism, but without destroying the capitalist system. They are only proposing new economic strains of the same capitalist virus.Consequently, it is the task of the elderly, of those who were conscious workers, and of those who have once retired have decided to fight, to take up the theoretical tools of the class struggle, to train the new generations, in the understanding of what the current system based on the exploitation of the labor force by capital, to arrive at the need to move towards a new type of society, of a totally different society, more humane and without exploitation.

As the world’s only organization of retired persons, we have collected more than 600 signatures from various organizations in more than 60 countries, to the Open Letter that we announced at the ILO on the 14th of June. There are more and more organizations that join our fight, and with all of them we are going to make a GREAT DAY ON OCTOBER 1.

All kinds of activities (demonstrations, rallies, assemblies, various events, delivery of documents, etc., adapted to each reality) will surpass those that were already successful 5 previous World Days of Struggle of pensioners.The photographs, videos and documents that will capture this new Day will be the best demonstration that pensioners will help to end Capitalism, which is the great evil of Humanity.

FOR A DIGNIFIED LIFE, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!LONG LIVE THE SIXTH WORLD DAY OF STRUGGLE OF PENSIONERS!