AIGETOA is continuously working for the justice to the families of the employees, who met unfortunate demises in the Covid Pandemic period. The association is demanding to give Compassionate Ground Appointment to the valid dependent of the deceased employees considering it as “Death on Duty” along with other suitable compensations for the deceased families. In this regard, AIGETOA Team is reaching out to different law makers including Ministers and Members of Parliaments for recommending its Memorandum to the Hon’ble MoC, Govt of India, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Ji.

In this regard, Shri Shushil Kumar Modi ji, Hon’ble MP of BJP (Rajya Sabha) & Ex Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Shri Ram Kripal Yadav ji, Hon’ble MP of BJP (Lok Sabha)and Ex Minister Govt of India have recommended our Memorandum to the Hon’ble Minister of Communication Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad ji for favourable decision.

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The six training center (ALTTC, Jabalpur, Pune, Mysore, Kalyani & Guwahati) to work Zonal Centers w.e.f 1st July 2021 with reporting directly to CGM ALTTC Ghaziabad as per the following.

Closure of eight RTTC (Rajpura, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, and ARTTC Ranchi) immediately & closer of its training operations by 30.06.2021.

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AIGETOA writes for approval of Standard Scale and extension of E2 to all JTOs and JAOs equivalent grade. It is important to note that BSNL has recruited and promoted young & qualified JTOs/JAOs post 2K7 but continuing them in lowest Scale E1. It is inflicting severe losses to these young officers recruited/promoted post 2K7 including LICE and GATE JTOs and JAOs joined BSNL in recent years. They are facing serious losses on account of being placed in E1 Scale and thousands of them, who got recruited post 2K10 are getting initial basic of just Rs 16400/-.

AIGETOA warned that the situation has completely infuriated these young executives and needs immediate solution of their standard Pay Scale E2, else the industrial unrest is bound to happen and the association will fight for the cause.

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Dear Colleagues,

AIGETOA proposed second agenda meeting with the management under chairmanship of Director (HR), BSNL Board is schedule to be held on either of 10th, 11th or 12th June, 2021 as informed by the Sr GM SR. The agenda points have already been submitted to the management and attached for your reference. The meeting is happening on a long gap and after little respite in the Covid-19 Pandemic, which was one of the worst nightmares for the whole country including BSNL, where more than 200 precious lives of our fellow employees of the organisation met unfortunate end.

So, we invite your concerns and suggestion with specific points (if any) to be raised in the meeting other than the submitted agenda points. You may submit your observation and suggestions in the Google sheet enclosed. We are looking for constructive feedback in this regard.

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Here, we would like to assure that any delay tactics from the management side will not be accepted as enough is enough. Any denial or delayed response will be met with strong organizational action from association side.

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Director HR writes to all CGMs for updating of leave encashment data in SAP for regulating claim with DoT for the leave encashment for the absorbed employees of the period prior to their absorption in BSNL i.e. 01.10.2000.

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Director HR writes DO letter to all CGMs for monitoring timely release of terminal benefits to the families all deceased employees, who met unfortunate demises in the Pandemic due to Covid-19 or any other reasons. In this regard, Dir HR will be holding a VC with CGMs of all Circles in phased manner starting w.e.f 04.06.2021.

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AIGETOA once again raised the matter of the SAB Pension Fund to make it updated, whose payment is pending since April, 2020. It was strongly raised that due to delayed payment of the SAB Pension fund, interest of the intervening period is not given by LIC and hence management should make the payment of all due amount along with the interest for SAB Pension Fund of BSNL Recruited employees. It is shocking to note that not even a single Pension Case started under “SAB Trust Rules of BSNL” despite to the fact that thousand of BSNL Recruited Employees (Few Executives and mostly Non Executives) took VRS in Jan-2020 (more than a year before) on the call of government and most of them were entitled for SAB Pension. On the other hand entire machinery of BSNL was put on job to settle Pension Cases of DoT absorbed VRS opted employees, which again shows sheer discrimination by the management towards BSNL Recruits. Some people are trying to weaken you on behest of the some sponsored group but you have to be very cautious. Friends, it is very important to see that voice and strength of AIGETOA remains intact else no one is bothered for you in this department even for your entitled benefits.

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AIGETOA appreciated the decision of the management to form the Committee for the Health Insurance Policy for BSNL Employees but also cautioned the management about its scope and mandate. The association told that it will be too early to comment on the formation of committee without having in depth information about scope and mandate of the committee but we find it apt to remind management that providing health care is duty of Employer and throwing it on the heads of Employees will not be accepted under any circumstances.

AIGETOA is firm in this regard and will not allow any tinkering in the responsibilities of the health provisions by BSNL. So, any Health Insurance Policy initiated by the department for executives and employees must be borne by the BSNL.

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The association has a Policy of Social Responsibility with the name of AIGETOA Death Relief fund (DRF) for the family of deceased members. In this policy, AIGETOA extend immediate support of Rs 1.25 Lakh to the nominee of the deceased members on the receipt of the cases from AIGETOA Circle Branches for all death cases of its members. This is purely done on the association platform from internal resource of the part of membership fees received by the association.

Accordingly, three cases of sad demises received by AIGETOA CHQ, which includes, two from Rajasthan and one from Bihar. Today all three cases were disbursed the DRF amount of Rs 1.25 Lakh to the account of official nominees of our deceased members as detailed below.

1] Shri Sanjeev Kumar, SDE Jhunjhunu SSA, Rajasthan Circle

2] Shri Girish Agarwal, SDE NTR Kota, Rajasthan Circle

3] Shri Jay Shankar Kokil, JTO Munger SSA, Bihar Circle

We pray for the departed soul and stand with the families of our deceased members in this testing time. We request the Circles to forward the cases if any pending at your end for disbursal of DRF to the families of our deceased members. It is also requested to our Circle and District Branches to ensure other settlement as available through BCF and other Terminal Benefits to be given immediately to the families of not only our members but all the employees of BSNL, who met with a sad and untimely demises.

AIGETOA has reached out to the Hon’ble Minister of Communication for Appointment of Dependent Family Members of officers/officials who met untimely death during this Covid-19 Pandemic Period under the Compassionate Appointment Scheme by treating all such deaths as “Death on Duty” and providing adequate compensation and other support measures to the family of deceased employees. Team AIGETOA is also following up the matter with authorities in the DoT for implementation of the above measures.

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