Venue- Oorvasi Hall A/C, Hotel Palmgrove, Nungambakkam

The meeting started with the prayer song by the girl Harini.

The welcome of office bearers and members done by Smt. Priya.

The Finance Secretary, Shri M.S.Chandrasekar began the proceedings with the current financial statement of AIGETOA, Chennai.

Circle President’s Welcome Address

Shri V.S. Chockkalingam, Circle President welcomed the CHQ President Shri N.J.P Shilohu Rao and General Secretary Shri R.P. Shahu ,Office-bearers and the Circle members.
In his welcome address he lauded the efforts and contributions of Shri Kishore Kumar Ex-CS/JS in forming the association in Chennai and the contributions of Shri S.K. Saini, Ex-GS in uniting all the Circles and forming the CHQ at the National level.
He praised the General Secretary Shri R.P. Shahu for his contributions in MP Circle as Joint Secy and said his methodology of running the Circle Association was later emulated in other circles, including Chennai.
Without referring to any incident, he expressed his regrets to GS for not participating in Dharna and further added that Chennai circle will join in all the dharna’s called by CHQ to express solidarity.
CP highlighted to members about the impact of 2 main issues

Ø No need of MT above GEJTO

Ø Extension of Pension Facility to the direct recruitees of BSNL

CP said that there is no HR policy in BSNL and is still following the outdated DOT rules, which supports a Two-tier system ,especially for planning and execution. Further added that in the current environment there is no need for separate wings for planning and execution as both these tasks are completed much faster than it used to be 1980’s or 90’s and said that the entire GSM network from planning to commissioning took 180 days and the forthcoming 3G project will take just 90 days.
While mentioning the recruitment of MT’s, he explained there is no need of any Direct Recruitment above the level of DRJTO/DRJAO’s with reason of horizontal collaboration and flattening of the world.
CP lamented that the DRGEJTO’s/JAO’s were placed junior to all the DOT absorbed JTO’s/JAO’s and absorbed Officers were given the pension facility which is more attractive to EPF of DR Executives.
While comparing the pay scales of CPSU’s, he noted that BSNL has implemented non-standard pay-scales.

Technical Presentations

The following technical papers are presented by our members .

1.Sanchar Soft – by Shri P. Jaimurugan , Shri Selvaraju and Shri Ganesan

2. Video Conferencing by Shri R. Pagalavan

3. Location Based Services by Shri Aemunathan

4. Leased Circuits and MPLS/VPN network by Shri V. Raghuraman

5. Next Generation Network by Shri T. RanjitKumar

6. DSS by Shri Kannan.

The presentations are thought worthy . The presentations are appreciated and well received by the CGM, CHQ/Circle body including members. Infact, Sanchar Soft is the inhouse product of Chennai developed by 4 GEJTOs and implemented through out the country.

Circle Secretary Shri S. Jaikumar’s Address

CS thanked Shri M.P. Velusamy, CGM Chennai Telephones for kindly consenting to be the Chief Guest of the first circle conference and having high regard for DR Executives.
CS in his address asked CGM to consider more number of postings for GEJTO’s in the upcoming 3G network services.
CS also appealed to the CGM to reconsider the posting of DRSDE’s in peripheral areas.
CS asked CGM to post GEJTO’s in hi-technology areas.
CS asked CGM to consider GEJTO’s for vendor trainings abroad and also provide BSNL Intranet account to all GEJTO’s at the earliest.
CS requested CGM to forward all the request of GEJTO’s who willing to move to their home states.

Gift Presentations:

Respected CGM has distributed the gifts as a token of appreciation to the members who have contributed their technical Presentations.

CHQ President’s Address

CHQ President in his address hailed CGM as dynamic and good administrator and further said that CMD is always happy to hear about Chennai Telephones.
CHQ President while praised the Officer-bearers of AIGETOA Chennai for making good arrangements for the First circle conference.
He said that AIGETOA itself was born to show the views and thoughts to the management and further said that the constitution will be amended to accommodate DRJAO’s.
CHQ President told all DRJTO’s to continue in doing their hard work, irrespective of what the company gives to them so as to achieve the mission of becoming the First Telecom Company in SE Asia by the Year 2010.
CHQ President lamented that Airtel has about 9 lakh point of sales where as BSNL has only about 2 lakh point of sales and said that if BSNL has to lead the Telecom market all DR Executives has to take up additional work of marketing the BSNL products during leisure hours.
President also lamented that BSNL is suffering a lot due to its wrong HR policies.

CGM’s Address

CGM Shri M.P. Velusamy said he is very happy in addressing the young and energetic technocrats and commended the work of DR Executives in CHTD.
CGM also said that DR Executives have very good technical knowledge and said that almost 80% of the workforce in BSNL does not have the required skills.
CGM said that DR JTOs have more stake in the welfare and longevity of the company than anyone else.
CGM said that similar to Indian Cricket team JTOs also require young leaders like Dhoni to guide and motivate.
CGM said that he doesn’t have problem in extending the required facilities to JTOs in interest of service.
CGM said that inspite of being a Govt. company, having its own administrative problems; BSNL will continue to grow and said that more DR JTOs are required to man the new technology networks.
CGM also praised that DRJTOs have played a vast role during the launch of GSM services and said while he was GM (Mobile Services) in Trichy , he always requested CGM to deploy more DRJTOs in GSM areas.
CGM said that the HR issues can be solved if the GEJTO’s were asked to report directly to ITS Officers.

General Secretary’s Address

1. General Secretary thanked Circle President and CS for providing an opportunity to address the GEJTO’s and JAO’s.

2. This is His first address in South India and highlighted various HR issues faced by GEJTO’s in BSNL. He is carried away by the technical presentations.

3. GS said that to motivate the GE’s in BSNL it should consider for time bound promotions and further said that BSNL should be nurture the GE only then talent can be retained in BSNL.

4. GS lamented that the management has said that JTO’s are not up to the mark by evaluating the JTO’s, without assigning any independent task to the GE’s.

5. GS said that the state-owned MTNL has recruited GEJTO’s as MT’s whereas BSNL is going for a separate recruitment of MT’s above the JTO cadre and said that this will lead to frustration.

6. GS however said that JTO’s are not against the recruitment of Officers at any level above the JTO’s but is only willing to know what is the career and promotional avenues of young and dynamic JTO’s in this company.

7. GS said that in EPF case even there are many directives from EPF Commissioners, BSNL has not followed any directives.

8. GS said that GEJTO’s will not go in for any dharna which may affect the customers, but will not be tolerating if the hard-earned money of DRJTO’s and JAO’s are put to stake.

9. GS said that HR issue will be solved if the reporting structure of officers is changed by clustered approach. Here instead of E1 reporting to E2, and E2 reporting to E3, all the Officers in the E1, E2 and E3 are made to report to E4 level.

Vote of Thanks

Shri R. Pagalavan proposed the vote of thanks. He thanked each of the members to undertake the work voluntarily and made this conference as a memorable one. He extends his thanks to All India President , General Secretary, Circle Secretary and Circle President for the happening of this first conference. He once again thanks the Chief General Manager Shri M.P. Velusamy for sparing his Valuable time with us.

The circle body tenders its special gratitude to this function’s Master of Ceremony

Mr. T. Ranjit Kumar for his active, energetic, enthusiastic involvement throughout the Function.

Lunch:

All the members were provided with good lunch along with dignitaries.

Election :

The Same Circle body was elected unanimously except for vacancies. Shri Kannan GE-SDE-Tirutani , Shri. K. Senthil Kumar GEJTO-HRD MSC were selected unanimously as VP and ACS. STR/STP regions are attached with Chennai Body. In this regard, Shri. Suriender Kumar DRJAO –STP was unanimously elected as ACS.

The Chennai body thanks every one of you for making this conference as a memorable and grant one by your active involvement and participation.