SEMINAR BY WEST BENGAL CIRCLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OBSERVANCE OF THE CENTENARY YEAR OF THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION.

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A Seminar was held  ON 12-04-2017 at the aegis of AIBDPA WB Circle and Kolkata District at CTO union room to observe the centenary year of the great November Revolution. Com. Hirak Sengupta controlled the proceedings. Com. Pijush Chakraborty CS placed the initial speech. Prime speaker was Com Dhananjay Ganguly who happened to be the DS Durgapur and the helm of T.U. Class organised by BSNLEU WB Circle.  Com. Ganguly narrated vividly the relevance of present scenarios in the world with the November Revolution. The well attended audience gave  patience hearing to the long more than one hour speech of Com Ganguly. 

 A slide show on the background of November Revolution will be the next program.

KOLKATA CENTRAL BRANCH DISTRICT CONFERENCE HELD.

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Central Branch, Kolkata under Kolkata Telephones Circle has held its district conference on 11-04-2017. The conference was formally inaugurated by Com.Snajib Banerjee, Circle Secretary with an elaborate speech covering the recent developments. Coms. Ananta Bhattacharjee, CHQ President, Supriyo Mitra, Circle President, Biplab Das, Secretary, BSNL Co-Ordination Committee and  Arup Sarkar, Secretary, BSNL Casual,Contract Wokers Union addressed the conference.

Office bearers were elected unanimously with Com.P.M.Das (President), Com. Biplob Datt (District Secreatry) and Com. Samirendu Sarkar (Treasurer)

NCCPA DISTRICT UNIT FORMED IN NAGERCOIL.

The representatives NCCPA affiliated pensioners organisations of Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu met on 10-04-2017 and formed the district unit.

Office bearers were elected unanimously with Com. A.Meenakshisundaram of AIBDPA (President), Com.S.Subramaniam of CGPA (Vice President), Com.Rajanayam of AIPRPA (Secretary), Jayachandran of Railways (Joint, Secretary) Com.K.Kaliprasad of AIBDPA (Asst.Secretary),  Com.Johnson of Railways (Tresaurer) and Com.Amalraj of Excise (Organising Secretary)  

FLASH NEWS AND GLAD NEWS- MEDICAL ALLOWANCE TO BSNL RETIREES RESTORED.

Our continuous efforts and struggles have at last  yielded the desired result. BSNL management has issued letter restoring the quarterly medical allowance to BSNL retirees, which was stopped unilaterally in 2011.

AIBDPA thanks the BSNL management and congratulates all the BSNL pensioners who have participated in all the struggles for restoration of medical allowance.

We sincerely thanks BSNLEU who took the initiative to rally round all the working unions to agree for restoration of medical allowance to the retirees- view letter>.medical allowance to retirees restored.RetdEmployeeswithout voucher (1)

IMPLEMENT KAILESH CHANDRA COMMITTEE REPORT-NATIONWIDE MASS DHARNA ON 27.04.2017 BY POSTAL WORKERS

NFPE has called upon all its divisional branches to organise day long mass dharna on 27th April 2017 demanding implementation of the Kailash Chandra Committee report on the Gramin Dak Sevaks. The report has been submitted on 24-11-2016, but so far it is not implemented citing the various procedure. There are certain recommendations which will benefit the GDS, the most exploited section in the postal department. The government has to take an early decision and implement the favourable recommendations.

AIBDPA fully support the agitation of the postal comrades.

Order Issued for Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners w.e.f 1.1.2017; it is 2% and total 4%.

F.No.42/15/2016-P&PW(G)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare

3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,
Khan Market, New Delhi – 110003
Date : 07th April, 2017

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners – Revised rate effective from 1.1.2017.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM No. 42/15/2016-P&PW(G) dated 16th Nov, 2016 on the subject mentioned above and to state that the President is pleased to decide that the Dearness Relief admissible to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners shall be enhanced from the existing rate of 2% to 4% w.e.f. 1.1.2017.

2. These orders apply to (i) Civilian Central Government Pensioners/Family Pensioners (ii) The Armed Forces Pensioners, Civilian Pensioners paid out of the Defence Service Estimates, (iii) All India Service Pensioners (iv) Railway Pensioners/family pensioners (v) Pensioners who are in receipt of provisional pension.

3. These orders shall not be applicable on following categories
(i) The Burma Civilian pensioners/family pensioners and pensioners/families of displaced Government pensioners from Pakistan who are Indian Nationals but receiving pension on behalf of Government of Pakistan and are in receipt of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance.

(ii) Central Government Employees who had drawn lump sum amount on absorption in a PSU/Autonomous body and are in receipt of 1/3 restored commuted portion of pension.

(iii) CPF beneficiaries, their widows and eligible children who are in receipt of ex-gratia payment in terms of this Department’s OM No.45/52/97-P&PW(E) dated 16.12.1997 and revised vide this Department’s OM 1/10/2012-P&PW(E) dated 27.06.2013.

Separate orders will be issued in respect of the above categories.

4. Payment of DR involving a fraction of a rupee shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee.

5. Other provisions governing grant of DR in respect of employed family pensioners and reemployed Central Government Pensioners will be regulated in accordance with the provisions contained in this Department’s OM No. 45/73/97-P&PW (G) dated 2.7.1999 as amended vide this Department’s OM No. F. No. 38/88/2008-P&PW(G) dated 9th July, 2009. The provisions relating to regulation of DR where a pensioner is in receipt of more than one pension will remain unchanged.

6. In the case of retired Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, necessary orders will be issued by the Department of Justice separately.

7. It will be the responsibility of the pension disbursing authorities, including the nationalized banks, etc. to calculate the quantum of DR payable in each individual case.

8. The offices of Accountant General and authorised Pension Disbursing Banks are requested to arrange payment of relief to pensioners etc. on the basis of these instructions without waiting for any further instructions from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Reserve Bank of India in view of letter No. 528-TA, 11/34-80-11 dated 23/04/1981 of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India addressed to all Accountant Generals and Reserve Bank of India Circular No. GANB No. 2958/GA-64 (ii) (CPL)/81 dated the 21st May, 1981 addressed to State Bank of India and its subsidiaries and all Nationalised Banks.

9. In their application to the pensioners/family pensioners belonging to Indian Audit and Accounts Department, these orders issue after consultation with the C&AG.

10. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure vide their OM No.1/3/2017-E.II(B) dated 30th March, 2017.

11. Hindi version will follow.

(Charanjit Taneja)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

BERHAMPUR DISTRICT CONFERENCE HELD WITH ENTHUSIASM.

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The 3rd biennial conference of AIBDPA Berhampore District was held on 9th April 2017 at Telecom Recreation club room. After flag hoisting and garlanding martyrs’ column, portraits of Com KG Bose and Moni Bose the inaugural session commenced.

Com Pijush Chakraborty Circle Secretary inaugurated the conference. Other speakers in the inaugural session were Coms Tapan Bhowmick (BSNL Officers’ pensioners welfare Association), Jamaluddin (AIBSNLEA), Sekhar Sarkar and Mamata Sarkar (BSNLEU), Amal Saha (AIBDPA) and Laltu Roy (CMU).

The subject committee started with report and accounts placed by Coms Avijit Sen and Santosh Maitra respectively. Coms Avijit Sen and Pijush Chakraborty summed up at their respective levels.  The report and accounts adopted unanimously after some amendments.

Among others the conference adopted two resolutions -1) The BSNL officers pensioners’ welfare association will be merged with our Association as proposed by the former and 2) rigorous well planned campaign will be made to increase the membership as no of members is far less than those of retirees.

The conference  unanimously elected  Coms Kalidas Biswas, Manoranjan Ghosh and  Dipankar Dutta as President, Secretary and Treasurer respectively. The conference was conducted by the presidium consisting of Coms Kalidas Biswas, Samir Dutta and Biswaroop Hazra.

WFTU solidarity statement for the workers of Maruti Suzuki in India

The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 92 million workers in the 5 continents, expresses its dissatisfaction and denounces the sentence of life to 13 workers and of 5 years jail to four more workers of Maruti Suzuki, regarding the incident of violence in the Manesar plant of Maruti in 2012.

The violent incident in 2012, plotted by the management of the factory, through the hiring of musclemen in order to crush the trade unions and the workers who were fighting for their rights. The convicted workers are not responsible for the incident in which a general manager of the factory was killed.

The WFTU is greeting the demonstrations and the initiatives to take place on 5th April 2017, expressing the Trade unions’ solidarity and demanding the unconditional release of the Maruti workers and reinstatement of dismissed workers.

The Secretariat

Female Labour % abysmally low in India; only 27%

International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ranked India at 121 out of 131 countries in Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) with an abysmal 27%, which means out of 100 jobs, only 27 jobs are with women. Nepal has got FLFP of 79.9%, China 63.9%, Bangladesh 57.4%, 56.3% in US, 50.8% in European countries and 35.1% in Sri Lanka. The few countries which are below India include Pakistan 24.6% and Arab countries 23.3%.
The jobless women in India are mainly in rural area. It is also reported that the FLFP is continuously reducing in India. In the Central government the ratio between men and women workers were 9.15 : 1. Lack of education among women in backward rural areas is one reason.

The continued governments at the centre have not paid any serious attention to this matter. Government of India and State governments have to seriously tackle the issue.