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.
Transfer and Posting in the cadre of SDE (Telecom).
Transfer and Posting in the cadre of Account Officers.
On Saturday, the 23rd October 2021, BSNL Board has approved the Restructuring and Man Power Proposal, where cadre wise number and overall strength of the organisation has been approved. Although the detailed official report is awaited, it is reliably learnt that around 4050 AGM Posts in Telecom Cadre and around 700 AGM/CAO posts in Finance cadre through regular DPC mode has been approved. Another 450 posts in Telecom Stream and 175 posts in Finance cadre are reserved for MT. It is learnt that around 23000 posts in JTO plus SDE Grades in Telecom and around 4000 posts in AO plus JAO Grade in Finance has been approved by the Board. The number of posts for DGM Telecom has been carved out as 1125 in DPC and around 125 in DR DGM quota. Similarly, around 280 posts in DGM Finance and 50 posts in DR DGM(F)quota has been approved as per the information. Similarly different grades of other streams of Electrical, Civil, Arch, CSS, CSSS, TF and PA/PS/SDE(OL) have been approved in the Board meeting with overall 71000 Man Power Size of the organisation comprising of Executives and Non Executives against a current strength of about 62000.
Friends, though, the current proposal has improved much from its initial position but still it is not to satisfactory level and will not cater to the smooth career progression of the executives in various cadres. Further, any lateral recruitment is not acceptable to us and shall be firmly opposed by the Association. We want all posts should be available in regular channel of promotion and that there should be sufficient number of posts, so that everyone should get timely promotion. Our efforts are also concentrated towards introduction of internal fast track mode where we want youngsters should reach to higher echelons with sufficient age profile in their side. We once agin reaffirm that will not allow any leteral entry from out side.
It will be worth to mention that association has been consistently monitoring the progress and has been regularly pursuing and intervening in the restructuring issue at all levels. Due to consistent pursuance of our Association, things are gradually improving though it has not reached the satisfaction level yet. The association was pressing for the required number till last hour and somewhat succeeded in improving numbers from initial position in various cadres. We wish to reiterate that this manpower still needs further refinement and the team is on job to get the same accomplished. We are also in discussion with the constituents of Executive Association Forum and discussion is on with how to move forward to ensure the best for all.
Our endeavour is to assure promotions to all in a time-bound manner and till we achieve that, our efforts will not stop. We request all to exercise faith and patience and not to pay heed to confusion created by some seasonal leaders, who only know to confuse and instigate people against AIGETOA with no locus of their own. We sincerely hope that our efforts will make every executive in every stream and grade happy with respect to promotional avenues. Association is fully committed to ensure and protect the benefits of the cadre and executive fraternity. The complete details are awaited…….