GS visit to corporate office New Delhi with Management

GS visit to corporate office New Delhi with Management on 16th Sept 2011

16th Sept 2011: GS R P Shahu along with CHQ web secretary Sh Pavan Akhand and CS AIGETOA MP Sh S K Gupta met CMD BSNL at 13:10 hrs. Meeting was lasted for more than 1 hour and discussed various issues of the agenda. It is grand pleasure and motivation to the members of this association that CMD has completely acknowledged positively the issues submitted by this association and has elaborate discussion on various decisions taken and to be taken by the board for complete revival of BSNL. He categorically mentioned about the plan of the BSNL board for revival of the company and given strong commitment to reform BSNL as complete PSU so that executives of the company shall not feel inferior to any of the leading PSUs in any respect. He appealed to the members of this association to have patience and be the part of the board decision by supporting the survival plan of BSNL. It may hold the interest of executives for some time but as it is said that there is a always “bright morning after a dark night”. He conveyed that this company has so far witnessed the net growth of about 8% in revenue in comparison to the last year but expenditure on salary has already increased much beyond to this growth. He is not seeing any other strong solution than retiring 1 lakhs employees as per the Sam Pitroda Committee recommendation. he also mentioned that he is not insensitive to those who will be the part of VRS he will offer best current package as per the guidelines of DPE with the support of government and future business scope to them in BSNL.

GS thanks CMD BSNL to have such long and elaborate discussion despite of such busy schedule and conveyed that such kind of interaction with circle and district management is completely missing with this association which is main cause of demotivation of direct recruits. CMD said to GS that JTO/JAO are now the executives and part of the management and this group is most qualified and useful in giving better suggestions. He offered GS to call anytime directly on his mobile for better suggestions and he will soon write to all the CGMT to have such kind of regular discussion with representatives of AIGETOA in fact he offered to draft letter as we want.

GS also meet ED (Finance), Sr. GM (Pers), Sr GM (legal), GM (East.), PGM(SR) and GM (CA) to follow up the various ongoing resolutions of the issues. Some of the developments are as follow:

Regarding pay anomalies of executives recruited after year 2006: Management committee note is already prepared for E1+5 increments as an interim and once put up to the management committee. Unfortunately, JAO recruited after year 2006 were not mentioned hence returned to include the JAOs also. Now, it will be put up again in management committee in this week. After approval of management committee it will go to the board for final approval. We can expect final order before diwali.
Regarding LDCE for JTO to SDE (T): All the internal formalities is over but to avoid any further litigations due to decision of Honb’le Chandigarh CAT judgement to conduct multiple exams on the basis of vacancies year and after suggestion of legal section some clarification has been sought from Honb’le Shimla High Court. We need not to worry as it will not be any hurdle in the way of conducting LDCE. Notification will be issued after receiving clarification and examination is expected to be held in last week of December 2011. We request CS Himachal to pursue with the petitioners to early clarification.
Regarding the recognition of AIGETOA: PGM (SR) told that the file regarding the privilege to the AIGETOA has already been put-up before Dir(HR), some decisions will be taken next week.
30% superannuation benefit to direct recruits: It is in the process. Committee has already received presentation to various insurance companies regarding their plans. It was to be decided within 2 months of our last agenda meeting but due to the several complexities involve in the process committee has asked extension of time for further two months.
Regarding EPF issues: We have been conveyed that very shortly the process of centralization of all the EPF account will start. At the same time we have been requested to pursue with the circle management to resolve local issues like settlement of transfer cases, rectification of short deposit, and uneven contribution towards FPS etc. all the CS are requested to take this issue on war footing basis to avoid any further loss to the members as EPFO is to stop the interest on inoperative accounts.