BSNL Withdraws Unlimited Sunday Free Voice Calling from Landline and Broadband Plans Across India ONE STEP FORWARD AND TWO STEPS BACKWARD..?

 


State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has made yet another massive change, but this time for its broadband section. The company has now announced the withdrawal of unlimited Sunday free voice calling with its landline/combo/FTTH broadband plans. This new change will be effective from February 1, 2018, and is applicable to both new as well as existing customers. BSNL, a while back released a press statement on the same.

This new change comes after the broadband free voice calling timings change from 9 PM to 7 AM to 10:30 PM to 6 AM. This change is already effective across the country. Already, customers are heavily disappointed with this change from the government-owned PSU, and the withdrawal of free Sunday voice calling will be a huge setback for them.

For the unaware, BSNL is currently the leading broadband service provider in India with over 12 million wired subscribers. Thanks to some affordable and luring broadband plans, BSNL achieved this feat, and notably, the company has coverage across major parts of the country.

Corporate Office letter on withdrawal of Unlimited Free calling to any network on all Sundays from BSNL landline.<<<view letter>>>

MAVELIKARA AREA BRANCH MEETING

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Com.N.Guruprasad, Circle Secretary inaugurated a well attended meeting of Mavelikara Area on 14-01-2018. He explained the current developments especially the agitational programme calle by All Unions and Associations for wage revision and pension revision and CHQ decision to participate. Com.K.P.Kesavan Nair, President presided over the meeting. Com.P.Surendran, District Secretary also addressed. Com.P.Sasidharan, Area Secretary welcomed all.

BELGAUM DISTRICT CONFERENCE HELD BEFITTINGLY WITH GOOD PARTICIPATION.

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The District Conference of Belgaum was held with good participation at M.G.Auditorium, Belgaum on 11-01-2018. Com.R.B.Tatapati, District President presided over the conference and delivered the keynote address. Inaugurating the conference, Com.G.G.Patil, AGS,  explained the issues in detail and the efforts and struggles being organised by CHQ for settlement. Coms.Muddaiah, Circle Secretary, Bhosale, and Gaste also addressed. Com.S.S.Sarapure, District Secretary wecomed all and submitted the biennial report which was adopted after discussion. Participation of more than 50 lady comrades is worth mentioning.

Com. R.B.Tatapati (President), S.S.Sarapure (District Secretary) and Com.M.V.Kulkarni are the important office bearers elected unanimously.

Date of March to Sanchar Bhawan changed as 23-02-2018, in view of Holi.

The All Unions and Associations of BSNL had fixed 28-02-2018 as the date for March to Sanchar Bhawan. However, difficulties are expressed by comrades in the availability of train tickets, in view of Holi, which falls on 1st and 2nd March. In view of this, the Steering Committee, in consultation with all the unions and associations, has now fixed 23-02-2018 as the date for the March to Sanchar Bhawan. Inconvenience caused due to the change in date is regretted. Comrades are requested to book their tickets immediately, and to make the March to Sanchar Bhawan programme, a big success.

(BSNLEU website)

AIBDPA comrades from NTR,Delhi and nearby circles of Haryana, Punjab, UP(E), UP(W), Rajasthan,MP etc are requested to participate in the Sanchar Bhawan March in large numbers and make it a resoundung success.

DEMOCRACY IN DANGER- SAYS FOUR JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

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Four senior judges say situation in SC ‘not in order’

In an unprecedented move, four senior most judges of the Supreme Court on Friday  called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was “not in order”+ and many “less than desirable” things have taken place.
Unless this institution is preserved, “democracy will not survive in the country”.
Justice J Chelameswar, the second senior judge after the Chief Justice of India, said “sometimes administration of the Supreme Court is not in order and many things which are less than desirable have happened in the last few months”.

The four judges also wrote a seven-page letter to the CJI.

Senior SC judges’ press conference: Five main issues that annoyed them

1) The four senior judges+ believe that all important cases get heard by CJI-led bench and do not get distributed to other senior judges heading benches.

2) The four judges also said there have been instances where cases that have far-reaching consequences for the nation and the judiciary were assigned by the Chief Justice selectively – to benches of their preference – and not based on rationality. “This must be guarded against at all costs,” said the 4 senior SC judges.

3) Specifically, the Four judges were annoyed that a public interest litigation seeking a probe into Judge B M Loya’s “mysterious” death was assigned to court no. 10 and not to any of the first four benches other than the CJI-led bench.

4) The judges further had a simmering grievance about the medical college admissions scam being sent to court no 7 after a Justice Chelameswar headed bench sent it to a five-judge bench of himself, the CJI, himself, and Justices Gogoi, Lokur and Joseph. The medical college admissions scam is to do with the role of sitting and retired judges of high courts in enabling private medical colleges admit students to MBBS courses despite the apex court’s order to the contrary.

5) The four judges also said that it was wrong on part of CJI to head a small bench and deal with the memorandum of procedure when it was earlier heard by a five-judge bench.

(The Times of India)

JALGAON DISTRICT BRANCH HELD A SPECIAL GENERAL BODY MEETING ON 11-01-2018

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A large number of pensioners participated in the special general body meeting held at Jalgaon on 11-01-2018. Com.R.N.Patil, Circle Secretary inaugurated the meeting and explained the current developments about pension revision based on 3rd PRC, programme of agitation by All Unions and Associations in which AIBDPA also has to participate, holding of Central Executive Committee meeting at Jalgaon etc. Com.A.S.Ingale, , President presided. Coms. H.K.Patil, District Secretary and A.S.Chaudhary, Circle Vice President also addressed. The meeting decided to launch local agitation for settlement of medical bills and non-payment of quarterly medical allowance from April, 2017.

There are approximately 100000 Central Govt Employees retiring every year

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

MoS (Personnel) Dr. Jitendra Singh addresses Pre-Retirement Counselling Workshop “Sankalp

Superannuating employees can be inducted into advisory bodies in their respective offices.

Addressing the Pre-Retirement Counseling (PRC) Workshop ‘Sankalp’ for the retiring employees of Ministries/Departments, organised by the Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOP&PW) here today, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the superannuating employees can be inducted into advisory bodies of their respective offices and also to dispose of grievances. Due to increasing life expectancy, an active life lies ahead of an employee at sixty years of age and the individual is at his prime capacity and energetic. Retirement should rather be viewed as the beginning of a new innings, he said. Such interactive workshops should come out with ideas on how best the services of retired employees can be utilized, he added.

Dr Jitendra Singh said for the first time this Government has cared for Pensioners as much as for the working employees. Minimum pension has been raised to Rs.1,000, Jeevan Pramaan biometrics introduced for submitting digital Life Certificate, more than 1,500 obsolete rules scrapped and the Anubhav platform introduced for the first time for retiring employees to share their experience.

In his address, Shri KV Eapen, Secretary, DOP&PW and Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), said the DOP&PW has so far registered more than 2,000 pensioners and conducted Pre-Retirement Counselling for more than 3,300 employees under the Sankalp project. The Department has registered 19 Pensioners’ Associations and 16 NGOs to involve Central Government Pensioners in social activities.

The PRC workshops target retiring personnel two to two-and-a-half years before the retirement date. Topics covered are (i) Formalities to be covered for timely payment of retirement dues (ii) Financial planning for the amounts received at retirement (iii) Preparation of Will (iv) CGHS facilities after retirement and (v) Post-retirement opportunities through Sankalp.

The “Sankalp’ programme has been initiated by the Department towards this end and a web portal of the same name has also been launched. Pensioners, Pensioner Associations and NGOs can register on the website http//www.pensionersportal.gov.in/sankalp.

There are approximately 40,000 fresh retirees every year from the Central Government Civil establishments alone. This number could be close to 1,00,000 including defence, railways, posts and telecom. In addition there is a pool of around 50 lakh existing pensioners.

The central government should post sufficient staff in CCAs

The payment of pensionary benefits, including revision of pension etc. are unduly delayed for the DOT and BSNL pensioners. When the issue is taken with the CCA, they are telling that there is acute shortage of staff and they are not able to cope up with the large number of cases of pensioners, increasing every year.

AIBDPA has already demanded that sufficient staff should be posted for dealing with the issues of the pensioners and there should be no difficulty and delay in getting pension and connected benefits to the senior citizens

General Strike in Greece on January 12, 2018

PAME, the central union of Greece has called upon the entire workers to organise a strike on 12th January 2018 against the anti-workers decisions of the government, cutting the wages etc. The Circular issued by PAME is given below: AIBDPA support and extend solidarity to the strike.

“PAME Calls the Unions, the National Federations, the Regional Trade Union Centers to join the Strike action all over Greece against the new antiworkers’ bill forwarded by the Government on Friday January12.
Against this new attack PAME has called for General Strike on Friday, January 12. Dozens of
National Workers’ Federations, Regional Trade Union Centers and Trade Unions have already
responded to the call.
The GSEE-ADEDY (members of ETUC in Greece) and their unions have refused to call for Strike, so as to give time to the Government to abolish workers’ basic rights.
The new bill includes a series of antiworkers’ measures (abolition of any protection of
workers’ homes so as to be auctioned by the banks, new taxes, etc) as well as imposition of new
laws on trade union action and organization aiming to ban our right to go on strike.
The class trade unions are organizing a series of actions to strengthen workers’ response to the new attack and prepare massive participation to the strike under the Slogan “Hands off! From our Right to Go On Strike”
On Tuesday January 9 the class unions of Athens held a militant demonstration and protest to
the Ministry of Labour. When the Minister of Labor refused to meet with delegation of the class unions the workers entered the Ministry with force, hanged banners to the building, naming it “Ministry of Employers-European Union and IMF” and not of the labor. The protest forced the Minister to meet with delegation of the Unions, who demanded the cancellation of the bill that bans workers’ right to go on strike. The Minister refused to withdraw the bill and slandered the class unions.”