The Circle Conference of AIGETOA Jammu & Kashmir Circle is scheduled to hold on 9th November, 2021 at Jammu. The Circle Conference is being held in physical mode and the venue of the conference is “Country Inn, Opposite Bahu Plaza, Jammu”. The delegates from across the regions comprising of Jammu, Srinagar and Laddakh are attending the conference. The Chief Guest of the function will be the Hon’ble Chief General Manager, J&K Circle. The election for next tenure will be held in the afternoon of the same day. AIGETOA CHQ extend its good wishes for the function.
All India President Shri Ravi Shil Verma, VP Shri Badri Kumar Mehta, AGSs Shri Yogendra Kumar and Shri Sunil Gautam, OS HQ Shri Vivek Kumar Singh, CS Delhi Shri Rajeev Meena and ACS Delhi Shri Mukesh Kumar while extending Diwali Greetings on behalf of AIGETOA had a brief discussion on the promotional aspects post finalisation of HR Plan. CMD BSNL told us that now after finalisation of HR Plan, the next step is to work on promotional avenues and management is keen to ensure that no executive under any stream stagnates in a grade. He further told us that discussion on promotional aspects will be taken up from 15th November as next week after Diwali meetings of Audit Committee, Board Meetings of BSNL as well as MTNL are scheduled. He once again reassured that it will be ensured that stagnation is taken care of and executives do not suffer on this account.
Thereafter Team met Director HR and other Directors of BSNL Board and extended Diwali Wishes. Team also met PGM Pers and had a brief discussion on JTO to SDE Promotions, Publishing of Subsequent SDE Seniority Lists, Next course of action with regard to SDE to DE and AO to CAO promotions and also of other streams. PGM Pers told that there is no reason to panic and all necessary actions shall be taken to ensure that no executive suffers on the part of promotions. He told that slowly and steadily, things are being streamlined and step by step we are moving forward. He also told that preparatory action with regard to further DPC in JTO to SDE has already been initiated and similarly they will move forward in other grades and streams. He told that promotion in AGM cadre is linked to outcome of SLP while we told to ensure that covering all eligible by any means will resolve the reservation issue and the same needs to be explored expeditiously. Action on publishing the subsequent SDE Seniority list is underway and JAO Final Seniority list is also being published. Further discussion on promotional avenues will take place from 15th onwards and we will take all necessary actions to bring all the stakeholders on board and move ahead jointly with consensus.
We once again reaffirm that AIGETOA is fully committed to ensure that promotion happens in a time bound manner and shall take all necessary action to ensure this. AIGETOA as well as Forum of Executive Association has already committed and decided that ensuring promotions in a time bound manner is our priority and we will take all necessary action to ensure this.
The association is closely pursuing the issue and awaiting the actual content of board minutes and management response on ground about execution of promotion in various grades and streams. We are restraining ourselves to give ample chance to the management for execution of long awaited promotion and working in tandem with Forum of Executive Associations in this regard. But we want to apprise the management that the executives are loosing patience and faith due to inordinate delay in issuing of promotions. An early action in this regard from the management is highly required to maintain industrial peace.
Today, BSNL Corporate Office, New Delhi endorsed the DPE order revising the IDA rate w.e.f. 01.07.2021 and IDA rate from 01.10.2021. as per the order, the IDA rates increased from existing 170.5% to 173.8% w.e.f. 01.07.2021 and 179.3% w.e.f. 01.10.2021.
The Government of India has issued letter for appointment of four Independent Members of BSNL Board of Directors for three year tenure. With this appointment, the BSNL Board reached to its full strength.
The BSNL Board comprises of 12 Directors, of which 6 [including the CMD] are whole time Directors, 2 Government Nominee Directors and 4 Independent Directors as under:
- Chairman & Managing Director – Sh Pravin Kumar Purwar
- Director – Consumer Fixed Access (CFA) – Sh Vivek Banzal
- Director – Consumer Mobility (CM) – Sh Sushil Kumar Mishra
- Director – (Enterprise) – Sh V. Ramesh
- Director – (HRD) – Sh Arvind Vadnerkar
- Director – Finance – Smt Yojana Das
- Govt. Director – Sh Navneet Gupta Joint Secretary(Admn.) DoT
- Govt. Director – Sh Abhay Kumar Singh DDG (E&T) DOT
- Independent Director – Ms Trupti Kamlesh Patel
- Independent Director – Adv. Ravindra Ramdas Boravke
- Independent Director – Sh Manoj Chaudhary
- Independent Director – Sh Shikhojam Kipgen
It is learnt that still many BSNL Covid Fund Claims have not been settled due to various reasons. Tentative figures of the claim registered are as follows:
BCF Sheet
| Particulars | Count |
| Total Cases Registered under the Policy | 246 |
| Cases approved by the BSNL CO New Delhi | 216 |
| Payment made to the nominee | 146 |
| Payment not disbursed despite approval | 70 |
| Cases Not Received from Circle | 30 |
It is to inform that after accord of the approval, the Circle has to request for the fund from BSNL CO New Delhi and make payment to the nominee of the deceased employee. All Circle Secretaries and District Secretaries are requested to take efforts to ensure the payment as well as pursue for sending pending cases by completing all the formalities and correction sought by the BSNL Corporate Office, New Delhi. It is to reiterate that a sum of Rs 10 Lakh is paid to the nominee of deceased employee under the Policy. The above figure is varying with each passing day and not replicate absolute one.
As per schedule, an election for the new Governing body for BSNL Corporate Office Circle, Delhi was held on 29th October,2021 at Sabhaagar in the presence of CHQ observer Shri Badri Kumar and AIP Shri Ravi Shil Verma.
The election of the new governing body of BSNL CO Delhi was carried out as per the provisions. The following Circle Body was elected for the next three years tenure of AIGETOA BSNL CO Delhi. Shri Sharad Pal Singh, Shri Rajeev Meena and Shri Subrat Kumar Mohakud was elected as Circle President, Circle Secretary and Circle Finance Secretary respectively.
A meeting of AUAB was held with management in presence of all the Directors of BSNL Board under the chairmanship of CMD BSNL, on 27-10-2021. The Brief Details are as stated below.
Launching of 4G :
It was informed that M/s TCS had made a good progress on developing the indigenous 4G equipment’s and supply to BSNL. The 4G core is being developed by C-DOT, while the RAN is being given by Tejas and the complete system shall be given by TCS. The POC phase is going on and encouraging results are there. Few hiccups are there which will be overcome in due course of time.
Payment of Salary on the due date :
October, 2021 salary will be paid before Deepawali. While November, 2021 salary will be paid on the due date, i.e., 30.11.2021, a slight delay will be there for December salary owing to load repayment and thereafter, from January onwards, salary will be regularized and shall be given at the end of the current month without any delay.
Wage Revision :
For the Non-Executives, Management has already taken action to reconstitute the Wage Negotiation Committee. The first meeting of this Committee will be held after Deepawali. For the Pay Revision of the Executives, CMD BSNL advised to take up the issue with the DoT. He assured to arrange a meeting between the AUAB and the Secretary, Telecom. It is understood that DA merger is in active consideration.
Restructuring :
The CMD BSNL informed that, Restructuring of BSNL’s Manpower is approved by the Board, with 12% increase in the existing strength. The new strength will be 36,000 Executives and 35,000 Non-Executives with total strength of 71000. On the notification of Time Bound promotion policy for the Executives, reluctance was shown on account of divergent views between executives groups. It was decided to have separate deliberations on the promotion issues pertaining to various cadres once the minutes of Board meeting are notified.
Withdrawal of show cause notices under FR17A :
The show cause notice for Shri S. Sivakumar, GS, AIBSNLEA, Shri Kabir Das, GS, BSNL OA and Shri Goud, President, BSNL MS is being withdrawn . The pending cases of four serving General Secretaries / Presidents i.e Shri Ravi Shil Verma, Shri B Laxman, Shri K Sebastin, Shri A A Khan is still pending and shall be settled before New Year.
Holding of various LICEs and LDCEs 8n various grades :
Notifications will be issued before 30.11.2021 by Establishment section.
Temporary Transfers under Rule 9 policy :
A Committee will be formed with four Representatives from Unions/Associations and four Management Representatives. Based on the recommendations of the Committee, the restrictions will be relaxed.
Threatening letters against agitations :
Threatening/harsh wordings will be avoided in future and entries made in the service books and ERP will be reviewed.
SAB contributions pending from April, 2020 :
CMD BSNL assured to clear all the pending payment by March, 2022.
Regular interaction between the AUAB and the Management :
The CMD BSNL assured that bi-monthly meetings will be held between the CMD BSNL and the AUAB for briefing on developmental activities.
After meeting the Management, the AUAB met and decided to defer the agitational program considering the positive developments.
Implementation of Intra-Circle transfer request option in Online Transfer Portal (OTP) for executives JTO and above of all streams w.e.f 1st Jan 2022. The window for the online submission of transfer application will be opened in 2nd fortnight of every quarter. i.e will be opened as below :
16th Jan 2022 to 31st Jan 2022 – First Quarter
16th April 2022 to 30th April 2022 – Second Quarter
16th July 2022 to 31st July 2022 – Third Quarter
16th Oct 2022 to 31st Oct 2022 – Forth Quarter
BSNL Corporate Office issued instruction regarding policy for provision of FTTH service connections in BSNL offices.
DPE issued order for Board level and below Board level posts including non-unionised supervisors in Central Public Enterprises (CPSEs) – Revision of scales of pay w.e.f 01.01.2017 – Payment of IDA at revised rates.