Meeting with Hon’ble MoC at Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 6th Feb 2022

Meeting with Hon’ble MoC at Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 6th Feb 2022

Today on dated 6th February 2022, Team AIGETOA lead by Joint Secretary East Shri Ashok Acharya and CS AIGETOA Odisha Shri Dhiren Parida met Hon’ble MoC Shri Ashwini Vaishnav Ji and had brief discussion over the issues pertaining to BSNL and future prospects of executives of BSNL with respect to Pay, Promotion and Pension issues.

Hon’ble Minister happily shared that nearly 45000 cr budgetary allocation has been done for BSNL which is highest ever capital support extended to BSNL.

He told fortune of BSNL is vibrant here onwards and government will ensure its viability as well as long term survival of the company. He further assured us with regard to Pay, Pension and career related issues that everything will be settled one by one. He said he is aware of the issues raised by AIGETOA in various meetings with him and advised us to exercise a little bit of more patience. Hon’ble Minister assured that things are improving and each & every genuine issue shall be taken care of. He also directed his OSD to have detailed discussions with AIGETOA Team and arrange a full fledged agenda meeting with the association at the earliest suitable time at New Delhi.

We also invited him to grace the open session of our All India Conference as Chief Guest. Hon’ble Minister showed his positive consideration and asked us to coordinate with his OSD to ensure the time slot for the same.

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Together We Will Achieve Everything.

Sad demise of our colleague Shri Narendra Irwar, SDE Shajapur, MP

AIGETOA deeply mourns the sad demise of our colleague Shri Narendra Irwar, SDE Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh due to Cardiac arrest. He was just under 40 years of age and a very dedicated member of AIGETOA. He is survived by his wife and two small children.

We pray to almighty to bless the departed soul with eternal peace, and to provide his family with strength and courage to tide over the this irreparable loss.

Promotion in the AGM(Telecom) Grade:

GS AIGETOA has once again reached out to the Hon’ble CMD BSNL for his kind intervention for immediate start of the preparatory exercise for issuance of the AGM(Telecom) Promotion as the much awaited judgement on Reservation in Promotion in the Civil Appeal Number 629 of 2022, arising out of SLP (C) No 30621 of 2011 has been pronounced by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, New Delhi. So, the major hurdle has been cleared and it’s a high time that management should immediately start the preparatory exercise for the promotion in the AGM Telecom grade. This is equally important for the organisation considering the fact that BSNL is struggling with acute shortage of the officers in the AGM grade after implementation of VRS in BSNL on 01.02.2020.

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Prepaid Bulk SMS Portal

BSNL Prepaid Bulk SMS Portal www.bulksms.bsnl.in is operational now. It is high time to contact retail customers and grab Bulk SMS business.

Salient features and USP of Portal:

  • Customer can directly open portal from his Desktop/Mobile and can register himself after getting his entity ID from BSNL DLT platform. https://www.ucc-bsnl.co.in
  • He can pay one time registration fee from Portal only through Card/Internet Banking.
  • Customer can choose SMS content and broadcast number list himself.
  • No third party vendor/App involved, so security/confidentiality of mobile numbers and messages is assured.
  • Customer will get Bulk SMS @ ~ Rs 0.10 only while third party vendors charges as high as @ Rs.0.25.
  • No chance of Spaming/Duplicating/Misuse of customer DLT entity.
  • Sent message are DLT scrubbed as per TRAI regulations so no UCC complaints.

Approval of Conducting LICE Exam

Flash News: It is learnt that the approval of conducting LICE exam has been sent from Estt cell of BSNL CO to Recruitment cell. The LICE shall be notified shortly. AIGETOA is in touch with Recruitment Cell for notification of the examinations at the earliest.

This issue was being pursued by AIGETOA for quite long. Finally we have been able to succeed in our pursuance for clearing all the roadblocks in the notification of LICE.

Next LDCE exam for promotion to SDE cadre, DPC for other left outs of 2008 batch and promotions from SDE/AO cadre to AGM/CAO cadre is also being pursued. Slowly and steadily, AIGETOA will be to achieve all the objectives set by us for career progression of the executives from all the grade and streams.

Together We Will Achieve Everything

Draft SDE RR issued for suggestions of the Association:

Draft RRs for SDE Telecom and Equivalent cadres has been issued for the comments and suggestion of the association. Draft RR contains 12 years criteria for stagnation beyond the sanctioned strength in line with the restructuring approval of the BSNL Board.

However, we wish to inform that these are draft RRs only and discussion/deliberation on the same with AIGETOA will start. We assure one and all that till the stagnation criteria is properly addressed and brought to the satisfaction level, Association will not allow the RRs to be finalized. This is just a beginning of the acceptance by management that there should be a provision of Time Bound Criteria in the existing RRs. We have to move forward much ahead in this to ensure that the new RRs rewrite a script which treats all equitably and everybody gets a chance to reach higher position with sufficient age profile on their side and to achieve this unparalleled faith and patience is required. We assure one and all that AIGETOA will not fail in its objective to ensure equitable justice for all not like previous history where BSNL Recruits were left behind like orphans.

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