France: Meeting of the General Secretary of WFTU and the French Workers in Refineries

01 Jun 2016

 

The General Secretary of WFTU is visiting France to express the WFTU solidarity in action. The WFTU General Secretary, George Mavrikos held a meeting with the workers’ trade union in the Raffinerie Ineos / Petroineos Lavera in Marseille, the 2nd larger refinery of France. (photos of the meeting in the offices of the trade union inside the refinery, source: journal La Marseillaise on 1st June 2016 and http://cgt-ineos.fr/index.php/2016/06/02/visite-du-secretaire-general-de-la-fsm/).

78.2%- MODIFIED CABINET NOTE BEING CIRCULATED TO DOT OFFICERS.

Shri. S. K. Jain, DDG (Estt), DoT when contacted by Com.K.G.jayaraj, General Secretary has stated that the finalized cabinet note incorporating the modifications sought by the cabinet secretariat is being circulated to Member (Services), Member (Finance) and Secretary, DoT for their approval. Most probably the modified cabinet note, if approved by the above officers, will be submitted to the cabinet secretariat on 3rd June, 2016.

AIBDPA Welcomes Retired BSNL Employees

 

Hundreds of BSNL employees have retired on superannuation on 31st May 2016. AIBDPA conveys its Best Wishes to these retirees for a very happy retired life with good health. They have served the nation and BSNL for their entire period of service.

AIBDPA also welcomes them to join  AIBDPA, the mighty organisation, which is fighting for the benefit of the retired employees/pensioners of BSNL and DOT.

Many of the employees retired on 31st May 2016 have joined the AIBDPA on the day itself

BSNL got Income Tax Refund of Rs. 6,000 crore

It is double delight.

It is informed by CMD BSNL that out of Rs.8,000 crore or so, BSNL has got an amount of Rs.6,000 crore as refund of Income Tax. This was pending for some time. BSNL is trying to get the balance also as per the information received from CMD BSNL

Good News! BSNL gets more operational profit in 2015-16

As per CMD BSNL, Shri Anupam Shrivastava, BSNL has got a revenue of Rs. 30,000 crore in 2015-16 and an operational profit of around Rs. 2,000 crores. The following circles have posted profit: Andaman & Nicobar, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala and Odisha. Andaman and Nicobar and Karnataka are the circles which joined the profit making circles this year. These glad news have been conveyed to the Core Committee of Forum by the CMD.

The joint effort of the management and the employees are making good results. Let the other circles also try to get profit by next year

NCCPA CIRCULAR ON GOVERNMENT APPROACH ON 7TH PAY COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS.PENSION PARITY TO BE REJECTED.?

 

NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE

OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c  Feroze shah  Road,
 New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 30.5.2016
 
Dear Comrades,
                We send herewith a copy of the NJCA Circular letter dated 27th May, 2016.  The same is self-explanatory.  You could see there-from that the  Government might not positively react to the demands placed by the NJCA over the recommendations of the 7th CPC.  Simply raising the minimum wage by a few rupees without any consequential change in the fitment formula or pay matrix will not bring about any tangible benefit. The revision of the minimum wage along would benefit only those who are likely to be recruited to the cadre of MTS in future.  As you are aware, the 7th CPC had not accepted any demand of the employees.  It is beset with dissenting notes in many chapters.  The fight between the personnel in the organized Group  A Services and all India Services had triggered such dissenting note on the part of the Member who retired from the IAS.  A significant section of the Secretaries to various Departments, we were told, were against any revision over the recommendations of the 7th CPC.  In any case, we are to await the outcome of the discussions at the NJCA meeting scheduled to be held on 3rd June, at New Delhi.
 
                 Coming to the issues pertaining to the Pensioners, we must recall that the 7th CPC had rejected almost all the demands unanimously placed before them by the Pensioners organizations. While tendering oral evidence the Staff Side had inter alia pressed for the parity for the past pensioners before the Commission, especially in the background of the granting of one rank one pension to the Defence Personnel.  It is ironic to note that the Defence Ministry which had piloted the demand of the Ex-service men for one rank one pension i.e.parity between the past and present pensioners has now taken a stand against such parity for civil servants.  No personnel either in the organized Group A services or All India Services would stand benefited by the present recommendation of the 7th CPC except a few as most of them were in receipt of almost time bound promotion in their career.  The modified parity one must recall has only benefited the upper echelons in the bureaucracy.  One can understand that the Govt. refusing to make improvements over the suggestion made by a Commission.  But it must be most intolerable when the Govt. refuses to implement a recommendation which was the outcome of a persistent presentation jointly by almost all the beneficiaries.  The plea advanced for non acceptance of the recommendation is the alleged impracticability due to the non availability of the relevant records.  Should the pensioner suffer for the reason that the concerned department of the Government has not kept the records properly? It is the most callous approach and must be resisted with all the force that we can command. We cannot afford to have this situation to develop. We are certain that most of the individual pensioners would be able to provide the requisite information needed to consider the first option in the pension fixation to the concerned department and most of the Departments would be able to verify the same with the available documents with them.  We must however await the decision of the NJCA in the matter.
 
                In the meantime, all affiliates will take such action needed to mobilize the pensioners and undertake a serious educational campaign.
 
                With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
 
KKN.Kutty.
Secretary General.
Copy of National Joint Council of Action circular letter dated 27.5.2016.

KANNUR DISTRICT CONFERENCE HELD MOST SUCCESSFULLY.

Kannur District Conference has been held most successfully at Payyannur on 28-05-2016. The conference started with flag hoisting and floral tribute to the martyrs. Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri , Advisor inaugurated the conference giving a detailed account of the recent developments in the international-national spheres, 7th Pay Commission recommendations, revival of BSNL, pensioners issues including latest position of 78.2% etc Coms. N. Guruprasad, Circle Secretary, K. Mohan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, K.P.Jithesh (SNEA), S.V. Padmanabhan (AIBSNLEA), V.P.Somasekharan (CGPA), Puthiyadavan Narayanan (AIPRPA) and V.V.Krishnan (BSNLCCLU) addressed. Com. P.V.Unnikrishnan, District President was in the chair. Com.K.Kunhiraman, District Secretary presented the report and Com. K.Ramachandran, Treasurer the audited accounts. 20 comrades including the 10 Area Secretaries participated in the discussion after which the report and accounts were adopted. Com.Kunhappan, Chairman, Reception Committee welcomed and Com. K.Rajan proposed vote of thanks.

 

Office bearers were elected unanimously with Com. P.V.Unnikrishnan (President), Com.K.Kunhiraman (District Secretary) and Com.K.Ramachandran (Treasurer) 

78.2% IDA MERGER- FINAL CABINET NOTE YET TO BE FORWARDED TO CABINET SECRETARIAT.

Com. K.G. Jayaraj, General Secretary has contacted Shri. S. K. Jain, DDG (Estt), DoT on 27-05-2016 to ascertain whether the final cabinet note on 78.2% IDA merger to BSNL pensioners retired before 10-06-2013 is sent to the cabinet secretariat. The DDG stated that the cabinet note is ready with incorporating the modifications sought by the cabinet secretariat. But some of the higher officers were not available on 27-05-2016 and as such he hoped to forward the final cabinet note by 30th or 31st May, 2016.