The greatest footballer of all times, Pele, has passed away on 29th December, 2022. He was under treatment for sometime long for the dreaded cancer and the end came at a Savo Paulo hospital in Brazil at the age of 82. Pele rose to fame from barefoot and poverty. He started playing at the age of 15 for the football club, Santos and his dazzling form attracted the national selectors and he was included in the World Cup team of Brazil in 1958. Pele helped Brazil to win the World Cup first time by scoring a hatrick in the semifinal against France and a brace in the final against Sweden. He has scored 1281 goals in 1366 games and won the hearts of crores of people around the world. FIFA has honoured him with the coveted crown of ” Player of the Century.” AIBDPA mourns the demise of Pele, the greatest footballer and pays respectful homage to him.

Com. G G Patil belongs to Hubli, Karnataka and a pioneer of the P&T Trade Union movement of Karnataka. He has the vast experience of working with most of the stalwart leaders of Karnataka including Com.M Sadanad and has played a pivotal role in the advancement of the progressive telecom unions. Com.G G Patil was part of AIBDPA since its inception in 2009 and held the posts of CHQ Organising Secretary and Assistant General Secretary and contributed immensely for the advancement of our mighty organisation. Com.Patil volunterly relinqusihed the post of AGS in the Kolkata Conference in 2019 citing health problem. As the General Secretary I insisted him to continue but Com.Patil was determined and promised me that he will continue to work for the organisation without any post. He has fully kept up his promise and has been very active in each every cause. Of late in holding the 4th Triennial Conference in Karnataka, the initiative and coordination of Com.G G Patil with other leaders like Coms. Muddaiah, Circle Secretary, H C Prakash, AGS, C K Gundanna, AGS.BSNLEU, H V Sudharshan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Irfan Pasha, CHQ Treasurer, BSNLEU, R B Tatapati, Circle President , C G Annigere, Circle Treasurer was crucial. He is 78 and I was surprised to know him supervising the works of the Reception Committee even at the odd hours of 3AM. So it was apt and appropriate to honour Com.G G Patil in the conference. Hats off to Com.G G Patil.

The biennial district conference of Ahmedabad Circle Office was held on 21-12-2022.. Com.J G Nayak presided over the conference. Homage was paid to Com. B R Mistry , Treasurer who expired due to Corona. Com.H C Parmar, District Secretary welcomed all and presented the report and accounts which were adopted after discussion. Com.M M Sayd, Assistant Circle Secretary inaugurated the conference explaining the recent developments. A new set nof office bearers were elected with Com. J G Nayak (President) Com.M M Sayd (District Secretary) and Com.H C Parmar (Treasurer)

The 4th Triennial Conference in a resolution adopted heartily congratulated and thanked the Reception Committee for the excellent arrangements made for the most successful conduct of the conference at Mysuru. Karnataka Circle took up the huge responsibility to hold the conference within a short period. The Reception Committee headed by Com.R B Tatapati (Chairman) Com.Muddaiah (General Secretary) Com.C G Annigeri (Treasurer) Com.Basavaraju (District Secretary, Mysuru)and ably guided by Coms. G G Patil (Veteran leader & Ex AGS), H C Prakash (AGS) C K Gundanna, AGS, BSNLEU, H V Sudharashan , Circle Secretary, BSNLEU and Irfan Pasha , Treasurer, BSNLEU made the conference historic and memorable with the all round brilliance with the sincere and hard work of hundred of comrades of various district branches.

The 4th Triennial Conference has decided to intensify the struggle to acheive the pension revision with 15% fitment as per 3rd PRC , delinking wage revision. The resolution adopted in this regard authorised CHQ to chalkout further appropriate struggles urgently against the unwarranted delay. The attempts of certain pensioners organisations to dealy the pension revision by again demanding illogical and rejected demand of 7th CPC fitment has to be exposed among the pensioners.

The report on activities and audited accounts presented in the subject session held at 3PM on 20th inst was deliberated extensivley by the delegates. 40 comrades from 22 circles participated in the discussion which covered almost all the issues stretching to 4.5 hours. The circles from where nobdy could participate are NTR Delhi, ALTTC Gaziabad and J&K. The report and accounts were adopted after reply by the General Secretary. A presidium with Coms. Susanta Ghosh, S Mohandoss, A Dhupal and D Shankar controlled the proceedings. According to the credential report presented by Com. Swastika Dasgupta 869 delegates participated and 61 were lady comrades. The youngest delegate is Com.Bipul Hazarika from Assam (53) and the oldest Com.Gurucharan Singh from Punjab (82). Of course oldest participant is Com.V A N Namboodiri, Advisor (84).

The following office bearers were elected unanimously; Advisor : Com.V A N Namboodiri. Patron : Com. Ananta Kr Bhattacharjee. President : Com.M R Das (Assam) Vice Presidents : 1. Com. Susanta Ghosh (West Bengal) 2. Com. S Mohandoss (Tamil Nadu) 3.Com.A Dhupal (Odisha) 4. Com. M B Chaniyara (Gujarat) 5. Com.D Shankar (Telangana) 6. Com.P Ashokababu (AP) 7. Com.Swastika Dasgupta (Kolkata) General Secretary : Com.K G Jayaraj (Kerala) Assistant General Secretaries : 1. Com. R Muraleedharan Nair (Kerala) 2. Com. H C Prakash (Karnataka) 3. Com.K Govindaraj (Chennai) 4. Com.Pushpa Sadanand Pharate (Maharashtra) 5. Com.S C Bhattacharya (Chhattisgarh) 6. Com.Sanjib Banerjee (Kolkata). Treasurer : Com.M G S Kurup (Kerala) Assistant Treasurer : Com. V Seetha Lakshmi (Tamil Nadu) Organising Secretaries : 1. Com. Omprakash Singh (West Bengal) 2. Com. Santhosh A Soni (Maharashtra) 3. Com. Hari Narain (Rajasthan) 4. Com.Sunil Kr Dutta ( CORTO) 5. Com. Ramswaroop (UP-W) 6. Com.V Venkitaraman (Tamil Nadu) 7. Com.A A Asharaf ( AP) 8. Com. Eranna (Karnataka)

The 4th Triennial All India Conference of the mighty organisation, AIBDPA held at Mysuru on 20-21, December, 2022 has created another milestone in the glittering history of AIBDPA. The conference kickstatrted with the hoisting of National Flag by Com.V A N Namboodiri, Advisor and Association flag by Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary at 0930AM on 20th December at Com.P V Chandrasekharan Nagar, (Jayamma Govinda Gowda Auditorium) Mysuru. This was followed by homages to the great martyrs. The Open Session at 10AM was presided over by Com. V A N Namboodiri. Resolution on martyrs was presented by Com. Sanjib Banerjee, AGS and the condolences resolution by Com. R. Muraleedharan Nair, AGS. Com. K G Jayaraj delivered the introductory speech and paid rich tributes to the great visionary leader and Patron, Com.PVC. He explained the growth of AIBDPA during the 13 yeras as a fighting organisation of pensioners by organising numerous struggles for the settlement of genuine demands of the pensioners. He accorded a warm welcome to the distinguished guests and delegates who came from all parts of the country.

Com.R N Parashar, Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers inauguarated the conference. He recalled the militant and joint functioning of NFPTE till the bifurcation of the P&T Department into postal and telecom in 1986 and formation of BSNL in 2000. He came down heavily on the central government for its aggressive implementation of neoliberism and handing over of national assets to the corporates. Postal sector is also under the process of privatisation with a number of other core sectors. National Pension Scheme has been proved to be a No Pension Scheme and needs to be scrapped and Old Pension Scheme restored. He also explained the decisions of the National Convention of Confederation, All India State govt.employees & Teachers Federation and other independent federations held at New Delhi on 8th December.

Com.V A N Namboodiri in his presidential address rememberd Com.PVC who has been the main pillar of the movement with his immense contributions throughout his life. He highlighted the great tradition of P&T Trade Union Movement. AIBDPA has been following this legacy and some of the important demands of the pensioners through numerous struggles. The great challenge in the form of PFRDA act has to be resisted jointly.

Speaking on the occasion, Com.P Abhimanyu, General Secretary, BSNLEU deplored the anti-BSNL policy of the Modi government by preventing BSNL from launching the 4G services. Pay revision and pension revision are also being denied unjustifiably. He thoroughly exposed the pro-corporate policies of the government and the evil designs to divide the people by purposely inciting communal violences. He thanked AIBDPA comrades for the spectacular victory of BSNLEU in the 9th memebership verification.

Com.K Ragavendran, President, AIPRPA and Secretary General, NCCPA greeted the conference. He applauded the militant functioning of AIBDPA by organising struggles even during the Covid-19 pandemic. NCCPA has been strengthned after the formation of departmental wise pensioners organisations and its affiliation with NCCPA. The three organisation, NCCPA, AIBDPA & AIPRPA are the only three affiliates of TUI (P&R ) from India and playing an important role in its functioning.

Com. Animesh Mitra, Secretary General, BSNL CCWF focused on the miserable plight of the BSNL contract workers due to exploitation of the BSNL management. He congratulated AIBDPA for successfully holding the Sanchar Bhawan March. Com. Mahantesh, State General Secretary, CITU also addressed. BSNLEU leaders Coms. C. K Gundanna, AGS, Irfan Pasha CHQ Treasurer , H V Sudharashan, Circle Secretary, Karnataka etc participated. All the leaders were honourd in traditional Karnataka style by Com.R B Tatapati, Reception Committee. The messages from Com.Quim Boix, General Secretary, TUI(P&R), P K Purwar, CMD, BSNL and Com. Ananta Kr Bhattacharjee , President were read out by Com. V A N Namboodiri. With vote of thanks by Com.Muddaiah, General Secretary, Reception Committee, the open session was concluded by 2.30PM.

Mysuru, the beautiful city of Karnataka is all set to host the 4th Triennial All India Conference of AIBDPA on 20-21, December, 2022. The Reception Committee led by Coms. R B Tatapati (Chairman) Muddaiah (General Secretary) and C Annegiri (Treasurer) supported and guided by Coms.G G Patil Veteran leader & former AGS, C K Gundanna, AGS, BSNLEU , H C Prakash, AGS are making all out efforts to make the conference a stupendous success. Some of our leaders as well as delegates have already started their journey to Mysuru. The Central Executive Committee meeting is scheduled to meet at 5PM on 19-12-2022.

The conference will kickstart with the flag hoising and homage to the martyrs at 0930AM on 20th inst. The open session will begin at 10AM. Com.R N Parashar, Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers will deliver the inaugural address. Com.V A N Namboodiri , Advisor will preside. Dr. Mahesh Shukla, Member (Finanace), Department of Telecommunications and Shri.P K Purwar, CMD, BSNL, Shri.Prakash Gopalani, CGM ,Karnataka and Smt.Madhavi Das, CCA are the Chief Guests. Coms. P Abhimanyu ,General Secretary, BSNLEU, K Ragavendran, Deputy Secretary General, NCCPA and Asia Coordinator, TUI(P&R), Animesh Mitra, Secretary General, BSNL CCWF will address the open session. Welcome address by Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary and vote of thanks by Com. Muddaiah, General Secretary, Reception Committee.

The 3rd All India Conference of All India Postan and RMS Pensioners Association is being held at Com.M Krishnan Nagar (AKG Auditorium) Thiruvananthapuram on 13-14, December, 2022. Com.D K Rahate, President controlled the open session held at 10AM on 13th inst. Com.Pinarayi Vijayan, Hon’ble Chief Minister inaugurated the conference. The pro-corporate policies of the central government was thoroughly exposed in the inaugural address. The privatisation spree is also being implemented in the postal sector also. On the contrary , the LDF government in Kerala is implementing many developmetal programmes for the welfare of the common people and grabbed 1st position in the country in public health, education, public distribution of essential commodities and social welfare measures, Com.Pinarayi Vijayan explained. He called for joint struggles of all to resist the onslaught of Modi government. Com.V Sivankutty, Minister for Education & Labour, Kerala, Com.Janardan Majumdar, Secretary General, NFPE, Com.Aanathalavattom Ananadan, President, CITU, Kerala, Com.V A N Namboodiri, Patron, NCCPA, Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA, Com.T N Venikateswaran, General Secretary, CGPA, Com.Ragavendran, General Secretary, AIPRPA, Com.P V Rajendran and Com.H V Kurup addressed. The welcome address of Com.Arya Rajendran, Mayor, Thiruvanathapuram and Chairperson, Reception Committe was read out by Com.N C Pillai, Working Chairman and Com.V A Mohanan, General Convenor proposed vote of thanks.