THE CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF WEST BENGAL CIRCLE
HAS BEEN HELD SUCCESSFULLY AT THE BSNLEU OFFICE HALL IN CTO
BUILDING,KOLKATA ON TODAY,THE 23RD NOVEMBER,2013.
COM.K.G.JAYARAJ,GENERAL SECRETARY INAUGURATED THE CEC MEETING
EXPLAINING IN DETAIL THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS AS WELL AS THE ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES.COM.DIPAK
MITRA,CIRCLE PRESIDENT PRESIDED.COM.ANIMESH MITRA,DEPUTY
GENERAL SECRETARY,BSNLEU,COM.A.K.BHATTACHARJEE,ALL INDIA PRESIDENT,
COM.D.BASU,AGS AND COM.BIPLAB DAS,SECRETARY,COORDINATION
COMMITTEE OF BSNL UNIONS ADDRESSED THE CEC.
COM.SUSANTA GHOSH CIRCLE SECRETARY PRESENTED THE REPORT OF
ACTIVITIES AND COM.P.K.NANDI,CIRCLE TREASURER PRESENTED THE
ACCOUNTS.ALL THE DISTRICT SECRETARIES AND MOST OF THE OFFICE
BEARERS PARTICIPATED IN THE DISCUSSION.
THE CEC DECIDED TO MAKE THE CCA/CIRCLE OFFICE MARCH ON 28TH
NOVEMBER FOCUSING THE 23 POINT CHARTER OF DEMANDS A GRAND
SUCCESS..

Supreme Court on Thursday restrained Subroto Roy and other senior
officials of Sahara from making foriegn travel.
The upex court clamped down on Sahara for making mockery of its order
of last month in which Sahara was asked to deposit the title deeds of its
assets as two group companies had failed to pay Rs.20000 crore found to
be irregularly collected from investors.It had directed the amount to be
refunded to investors through SEBI.
Sahara firms had refunded only Rs.5120 crore to Sebi and said only Rs.2000
crore were outstanding as the rest was refunded through
its field offiices
The order was passed by the Supreme Court on the complaint of Sebi
for failure of Sahara to comply with the upex courts earlier oder..

AS PER THE DECISION OF THE JAIPUR CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 5-6TH OCTOBER,2013,WE HAVE ALREADY CONDUCTED THE PROTESTDAY ON 25TH OCTOBER BY HOLDING DEMONSTRATIONS AT DISTRICT/CIRCLE LEVEL AND SENDING FAX MESSAGES TO THE MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SECRETARY,DOT MOST SUCCESSFULLY ON THE 23 POINT CHARTER OF DEMANDS,FOCUSSING 78.2% IDA FIXATION.

ON THE INITIATIVE OF BSNLEU,THE CMD ,BSNL WROTE A DO LETTER TO THE SECRETARY,DOT CLARIFYING THE EXACT AGREEMENT PROVISION WITH REGARD TO THE ARREARS OF 78.2% IDA FIXATION,SINCE THE DOT ORDER DATED 10-06-2013 HAS A CLAUSE WHICH STATED “NO ARREARS WILL BE PAID”.

THESE DEVELOPMENTS HAD THE DESIRED RESULT AND THE DOT APPROVED PENSION REVISION BASED ON 78.2% IDA MERGER AND SENT TO THE PENSION DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR APPROVAL.HOWEVER THE FILE HAS NOT BEEN RECIEVED BACK TO DOT.WE ARE PURSUING AT THE PENSION DEPARTMENT FOR EARLY APPROVAL.

MEANWHILE WE HAVE TO IMPLEMENT THE SECOND PROGRAMME OF THE JAIPUR CEC,MARCH TO CCA OFFICE WITH MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION OF THE PENSIONERS ON 28TH NOVEMBER FOR PUTTING FUTHUR PREASSURE TO GET THE ORDERS ISSUED ON 78.2% AND FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE OTHER IMPORTANT DEMANDS.

SHRI.PRACHISH KHANNA,DIRECROR (ESTABLISHMENT),DOT HAS TOLD COM.K.G.JAYARAJ,GENERAL SECREARY,WHEN CONTACTED TODAY,THE 19TH NOVEMBER,THAT THE FILE ON 78.2% IDA  FIXATION TO BSNL PENSIONERS HAS NOT BEEN RECIEVED BACK FROM THE PENSION AND PENSION WELFARE DEPARTMENT.

As per the decision of NCCPA,a state level convention of Pensioners
Organisations of Kerala was held on 16th November at Ernakulam.
The convention participated by 400 delegates representing 34 Pensioners
Organisations was inaugurated by Justice V..R.Krishna Iyer.Com..S.K.Vyas,
Secretary General,NCCPA & BCPC made the keynote address.Com.P.C.
Baburaj,working President,CGPA was in the chair.
Com.T.I.Sudhakaran,General Secretary,CGPA presented the resolution on the
important demands.Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan,All India Patron,AIBDPA
gave a detailed explanation on the demands.Com.R.Reghunathan Nair,
General Secretary,Kerala State Service Pensioners Union,Com.N.Ramesan,
Circle Secretary,AIBDPA and others spoke.
The United Forum of Pensioners Organisations was formed with
Com.R.Reghunathan Nair,Chairman and Com.T.I.Sudhakaran,Convenor.

A Special Convention of AIBDPA,Coimbatore district has been held
successfully at Divyodaya Hall,Coimbatore on today,the 16th
November,2013.
Coom.K.G.Jayaraj ,General Secretary addressed the Convention
and explained in detail the developments regarding the 78.2 per cent
IDA fixation to the pensioners and other impotant demands.
Com.M.Girija,Joint Secretary,South Zone Insurance Employees
Federation spoke on the subject,”Pension and PFRDA Act”.
Com.C.K.Narasimhan,Circle Secretary and Com.V.Vekitaraman,Circle Vice President,BSNLEU also addressed the convetion.
Com.V.Puthiavan,District President presided.
Com.L.Umapathy,District Secretary welcomed and Com.G.Bharathi,
District Treasurer proposed vote of thanks.
About 200 pensioners participated in the Special Convention.

THE RETAIL INFLATION IN OCTOBER,2013 GONE TO 10.09 PERCENT AS THE COST OF VEGETABLES AND FRUITS HAVE RAISED TO NEW HEIGHTS.

THE INFLATION AS MEASURED BY THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (CPI) WAS 9.84 PER CENT IN

SEPTEMBER AND 9.52 PER CENT IN AUGUST,2013.

VEGETABLE PRICES ROSE 45.57 PER CENT IN OCTOBER COMPARED WITH A 34.93 PER CENT IN

THE PREVIOS MONTH.

FRUITS WERE COSTLIER BY 12.84 PER CENT.

FOR THE CPI INFLATION,PRICE DATA ARE COLECTED FROM SELECT TOWNS BY THE NATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEY ORGANISATION AND FROM SELECT VILLAGES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POSTS.

The petroleum ministry is sending a proposal to Union Cabinet to allow Reliance
Industries Ltd to double the price of gas from the KG D6 fields.The proposal
also contains a condition that RIL may give a bank guarantee which can be
encashed in case it is proved by experts later that the company is hoarding
gas in the block.
There is already a proposal to absolve Reliace from the serious charge of
purposely lowering the gas production since 2010-11 by getting an “expert
Committee report”stating that the lower production was due to. ecologi
cal ground.
Appeasing the corporates to any extent has become the order of
UPA regime.

THE FORIEGN INVESTMENT PROMOTION BOARD WILL TAKE A DECISION ON 13TH NOVEMBER,2013 ON BRITISH TELECOM MAJOR VODAFONE”S PROPOSAL SEEKING APPROVAL TO INVEST RS.10,141 CRORE FOR RAISING ITS STAKE IN INDIAN UNIT TO 100 PER CENT.
AT PRESENT INDIANS HAVE 14.5 PER CENT STAKE IN VODAFONE AND THE PROPOSAL IS TO BUY STAKE HELD BY THE MINORITY SHARE HOLDERS.