Circle Body Appeal to All District/Branch Secretaries for  CHQ BUILDING + LEGAL FUND:

As the Inauguration of OUR NEW CHQ BUILDING at RAMESH NAGAR (NEAR METRO STATION) NEW DELHI is going to be held on 11/02/12, Remit the CHQ Building + Legal fund donation ( Rs.500/- per member & Circle Office Bearers, CWC Members, District/Branch Secretaries, Presidents & Treasurers and CEC members must be donate minimum @ Rs.1000/-) to CIRCLE TREASURER (Com. Vivekanand Kumar/ Mob. No.9431200216) or directly credit to “SNEA (I) BIHAR TELECOM CIRCLE " at PATNA in CANARA BANK, ,BORING ROAD BRANCH (Core Banking Service), PATNA & A/C No.1967101009337  before 05/02/2012.

Note: If District/Branch secretaries unable to collect the fund then individual Member comes forward and  contribute CHQ Building + Legal fund donation  directly deposit at Bank Account of SNEA(I) Bihar Circle and informed to Com. Ratish Kumar/CS(9431200310), Com. Ranjan Kumar/CP(9431000077) & Com. Vivekanand Kumar/CT(9431200216).
On appeal of SNEA(I) Bihar Circle for CHQ Building + Legal fund donation:
Directly received in SNEA(I) Circle A/C from:

1.Com. Tahir Alam Usmani /SDE Kishanganj- Rs.500/-
SNEA(I) Bihar Circle extend heatiest thanks for self-initiative approach.

Welfare Claim payment by CHQ:

Despite large number of Circles having not paid/partially paid CHQ quota, CHQ has cleared all the welfare cases as on date even though welfare claims are directly related to CHQ quota. Notwithstanding non payment of CHQ quota by a large number of Circles, not a single welfare claim is pending as on date. For the information of our Comrades, CHQ has paid Rupees Ninety three lakhs (Rs 93, 00000) towards welfare claims since formation of SNEA(I) in April, 2003. In this tenure itself from Dec.,2008 till date, Rupees forty three lakhs and twenty thousand (Rs 43, 20000) alone has been paid towards welfare claims. This noble cause giving all of us enormous satisfaction and which has been going forward very smoothly since its inception needs to be further strengthened in our ensuing AIC. Can we look forward to raising this amount to Rs one lakh per head considering huge escalation in cost of living? Not a difficult task.

Welfare Amount may be rise from Rs.40,000/- to Rs.1,00,000/- in our ensuing All India Conference to be held on March'2012.

SLP in the Hon Supreme Court against generalization of Rule 206: The case is posted for next Friday as the respondents lawyer sought some time.

Review application at Hon High Court of Mumbai against quashing of list no 6 & 7: The case posted to 24th Feb;’12.

a) Rule 206 related cases on fixation of seniority of SDEs in list No 1 to 5 — The contempt petition against CMD/BSNL at Hon CAT, Chandigargh bench came up on 13.01.2012 and given 4 weeks time. The contempt petition against CMD/BSNL at Hon CAT, Gwalior bench came up on 16.01.2012 and given 4 weeks time. The contempt petition against CMD/BSNL at Hon CAT, Jaipur bench came up on 18.01.2012 and will be posted again in February. All these judgements are in favour of seniority as per para 206, based on qualifying year basis. The SLP filed by BSNL against the judgement of Hon CAT, Jaipur bench upheld by the Hon Rajasthan High Court is coming up in the Hon Supreme Court for admission on 27.01.2012.

b) Hon CAT, Jabalpur Bench stayed convening of DPC for Adhoc DE promotion till the next date of hearing, ie 26.03.2012.

c) The review application filed by BSNL in the Hon Mumbai High Court against the quashing of seniority lists 6 & 7 is coming up for admission on 27.01.2012. BSNL filed SLP also in the Hon Supreme Court in this regard. The Regular & Adhoc promotion to DE cadre is held up since August 2011 due to the quashing of seniority lists 6 & 7 by the Hon CAT, Mumbai Bench as SC/ST candidates are available only in list no 6 & 7. The appeal in the Hon High Court of Kerala on the same matter is reserved for judgment. The appeal in the Hon High Court of Punjab & Haryana is also pending.

1. Assam-1, 2.Bihar-1, 3.HR-4, 4. ITPC-2, 5. J & K-3, 6. MH-13, 7. MP-1, 8. NCES-2, 9. NTR-2, 10. PB-1, 11. RJ-8, 12. TS Kolkata-1, 13.UPW-7

1. SC-ST Roster case at Hon High Court, Madras:  WP 16102 & WP 26246 came up for hearing on 19.01.2012 at Hon High Court, Madras and Hon Judges ordered to club both the cases and posted for argument on 24/01/2012.

2. Seniority case at Hon CAT, Madras: OA 36/2011 related to JTO seniority (as per DOP&T) challenging the JTO eligibility list is posted for hearing on 25/01/2012

BSNL Special Lateral Direct Recruitment Rules-2011 of BSNL Management Services - regarding inter-se seniroity in the recruitment made from ITS Officers of DoT.

ONE DAY DHARNA ON 20th JAN: ’12 IN THE BANNER OF UNITED FORUM.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE COMRADES FOR MAKING THE MASS DHARNA A GRAND SUCCESS.

The one day dharna was 100% successful in the eastern part of the country like Assam, Bihar, NE I, Orissa, West Bengal etc. In South and West also the Dharna was almost 100% as usual especially at Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu etc. Very good participation was reported from Madhya Pradesh also. Eventhough entire North India was hit by cold wave, entire executives taken active involvement and made the programme a grand success. However the response from Chennai TD was not upto the expectations. The Circle office bearers and senior leaders of CHTD should work hard to make the indefinite work according to rule and non cooperation from 15th Feb onwards a total success.

MAKE EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT CRUCIAL PROGRAMME FROM 15TH FEB'2012.

• 1. No recruitment to Senior DGM / Joint GM
• 2. Extend standard pay scales of E2, E3, etc
  

A) No Outside recruitment to Sr. DGM/Jt. GM Posts and No Diversion of DGM Posts

B) Standard Pay scales of E2, E3 etc for Executives

Full Day Dharna at Sanchar Sadan Patna and also SSA HQs on 20th Jan,2012 was 100% success under banner of United Forum of BSNL Executive Association[SNEA(I)+AIGETOA+AIBSNLEA]. More than 150 Executives participated from Patna Telephones, ETR, ETP, Circle Office, T&D, Civil/Electrical/Arch wing & PA/PS.

Representatives of all constituent of United Forum of BSNL Executive Association Bihar were participated under the presidentship of Com.R.N.Ram,President AIBSNLEA and address the gathering as below:

1. Com. Ratish Kumar, CS SNEA(I) Bihar Circle
2. Com. Krishna Kumar, CS AIBSNLEA Bihar Circle
3. Com. Ranjan Kumar, Convenor/United Forum & President, SNEA(I) Bihar Circle
4. Com. Wasi Ahmed, CS, AIGETOA, Bihar Circle
   
5. Com. Shailendra Prasad, CP,AIGETOA, Bihar Circle
6. Com. Sanjay Kumar,Treasurer/United Forum & DS/PTD,SNEA(I) Bihar Circle
7. Com. P.K.Mohanty, Jt. Convenor/United Forum & ACS,AIGETOA, Bihar Circle

SNEA(I) Bihar Circle extend sincere thanks to entire SNEA(I) members and participants  of Bihar Circle for their whole hearted participation in Full Day Dharna at Sanchar Sadan Patna and also SSA HQs on 20th Jan,2012 and  making it's a complete success.

Day long DHARNA PROGRAMME
on 20-01-2011 at Circle/SSA HQ
(Call by SNEA (I), AIBSNLEA & AIGETOA)
Attention:- All COBs/DPs/DSs/DTs/activists,

All branches of SNEA Bihar  Circle to hold FULL DAY DHARNA on 20.01.2012 from 9.30AM to 5.00 PM under the banner of United Forum of BSNL Executives' Associations[SNEA(I) + AIBSNLEA + AIGETOA] at SSA HQs/Circle HQ(Sanchar Parisar, Patna)  to impress upon the management to immediately abandon the arbitrary move to recruit Sr. DGMs and Jt. GMs in direct contravention of existing BSNLMS RRs and also to process the legitimate demand of standard IDA pay scales of E2 and E3 for JTOs and SDEs.
ALL MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO PARTICIPATE ENMASS AND MAKE THE EVENT A SUCCESSFUL , HISTORICAL AND POWERFUL.

United Forum strongly protested against the unilateral notification of  lateral entry RRs to rehabilitate non optee ITS officers in BSNL through back door entry. UF demanded first to fill up all vacant Group-'A' level posts by its own eligible executives. UF also demanded that E2 & E3 IDA pay scales should immediately be finalized since the pension contribution is now being paid on actual basic pay  & implementation of CPSUs cadre hierarchy.

After detailed discussions, Director(HR) mentioned that implementation of CPSUs cadre hierarchy & finalization of E2 & E3 IDA pay scales can be discussed but the recruitment at Sr. DGM / GM / PGM / CGM level is immediately required due to sudden shortage arises in these grades on implementing DoT repatriation order.

UF during discussions found the reluctant attitude of BSNL Management & not  considering our demands, has decided to intensify  organisational action programmes as under :-

(i)      Mass Dharna on 20th Jan'2012 at all  SSAs/Circles/BSNL HQ level

(ii)     3 Days Mass Dharna w.e.f. 15th Feb'2012 to 17th Feb'2012 at all SSAs / Circles / BSNL CO level

(iii)    In additional to this "Work According to Rules" & "Non-Co-operation Movement" will also start by 9.00 Hrs on 15th Feb'2012 to indefinite period till the settlement of our demands.

During three days dharna programme 100% executives are to participate in three batches to make the programme a grand success.

For mobilization all three General Secreatries (AIBSNLEA, SNEA(I) & AIGETOA) will visit Hyderabad on 27th Jan'2012, Chennai on 28th Jan'2012, Bangalore on 30th Jan'2012 &  Pune on 3rd Feb'2012. To visit other major stations, the tour programme will be decided shortly.

All the CHQ Office Bearers/Circle/District/Branch Secretaries are requested for wide publicity & mobilization to make the organizational action programmes a grand success.

Note: SNEA(I) Bihar Circle appeal to each and every members to contribute CHQ Building + Legal Fund on or before 8th Feb'2012, so that we contribute another Rs. 1,00,000/- at the time of inaguration of CHQ Building at Ramesh Nagar New Delhi on 11th Feb'2012 as commitement with our CHQ.

If any member already donate and their name was not reflected in the above mentioned list then kindly contact with respective District Secretary/Treasurer .

Lunch hour demonstration under the banner of UNITED FORUM was by and large successful. Further intense mobilization is needed to make the programme of 20th Jan-2012, and the future programmes likely to be decided very shortly, complete success to create strong compulsion on BSNL management to completely abandon its arbitrary move to recruit 600 Senior DGMs at E6 level in complete contempt and disregard of the existing BSNLMS RR.

The move of the BSNL management, needless to reiterate, is intended merely to “rehabilitate ITS” rather than address the issues of growth of BSNL by introducing a homogeneous management structure belonging to the company. These so called RR ( Rehabilitation Rules) are only mend to appease ITS and not build a management structure where the primary stake holders of the company should be given core managerial responsibility to grow the company. That is where our HR managers are big failure.

Let us not allow the sinister design of the management to succeed by such diabolical means of creating parallel cadres and parallel RRs which will kill the growth of the company.

We have to understand and accept that long term and comprehensive and hassle free solution to our career growth in BSNL lies only in introducing a time tested CPSU cadre hierarchical mechanism which is existing in all Public Sector Units. This would be an ideal mechanism for our career growth related to our performance. However, in order to achieve it, a long and sustained struggle is needed. Let us make a beginning now to accomplish this demand.

A) No Outside recruitment to Sr. DGM/Jt. DGM Posts and No Diversion of DGM Posts

B) Standard Pay scales of E2, E3 etc for Executives

Lunch hour demonstration at 13.00 Hrs at Sanchar Sadan Patna and also SSA HQs on 15th Jan,2012 was 100% success under banner of United Forum of BSNL Executive Association[SNEA(I)+AIGETOA+AIBSNLEA]. More than 200 Executives participated from Patna Telephones, ETR, ETP, Circle Office, T&D, Civil/Electrical/Arch wing & PA/PS.

Representatives of all constituent of United Forum of BSNL Executive Association Bihar were participated under the presidentship of Com.R.N.Ram,President AIBSNLEA and address the gathering as below:

1. Com. Ratish Kumar, CS SNEA(I) Bihar Circle
2. Com. Krishna Kumar, CS AIBSNLEA Bihar Circle
3. Com. Ranjan Kumar, President, SNEA(I) Bihar Circle
4. Com. Wasi Ahmed, CS, AIGETOA, Bihar Circle
   
5. Com. Shailendra Prasad, CP,AIGETOA, Bihar Circle
6. Com. Sanjay Kumar,DS/PTD,SNEA(I) Bihar Circle

SNEA(I) Bihar Circle extend sincere thanks to entire SNEA(I) members and participants  of Bihar Circle for their whole hearted participation in Lunch hour demonstration on 15th Jan,2012 and  making it's a complete success.

A) No Outside recruitment to Sr. DGM/Jt. DGM Posts and No Diversion of DGM Posts

B) Standard Pay scales of E2, E3 etc for Executives

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WP 26246 {Similar to W.P No.16102 / 2011 -JTO to SDE roster case } – As scheduled the case has not came up for hearing at Hon. Chennai High Court.

 UF is of the firm opinion that the diabolical move to recruit 600 Sr DGMS/Jt GMs just to rehabilitate ITS and jeopardize the career growth of absorbed executives has to be comprehensively defeated through protracted and sustained organizational actions in the days to come. Besides, the move to recruit 450 GMs from outside in addition to the existing absorbed ITS is totally unwarranted and the size must be pruned down considerably to make recruitment at such senior levels compatible with industry standards, not to merely placate ITS.

 UF unanimously decided to intensify the struggle by going on INDEFINITE “WORK ACCORDING TO RULE” & “TOTAL NON COOPERTION” in not too distant a future if the issues are not resolved by that time. Exact dates will be decided next week. CSs, CHQ/Circle office bearers, SSA/Branch secretaries and other activists are requested to make extensive preparations at the grass root levels for complete success of the organizational programmes by conducting general massive body meetings and other mobilization activities.

 GSs of all the three Associations will be touring   important strategic centres like Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh etc. very shortly to mobilize opinion and explain in detail the significance and criticality of the issues involved.

 In the meantime, our activists, base level members and office bearers at all the levels must make hectic organizational preparations and leave no stone unturned to make the programs on 16thand 20th Jan 2012 a spectacular success to send crisp and loud message to the management that anyone who tries to kill our career will not be spared by us under any circumstances. Let us get resolutely ready to translate this into a reality since our cause is just and struggle legitimate.

·  Country wide Lunch hour Demonstrations at Corporate / CGM / GM Hqs on 16-01-12.

·  Full day Dharna at Corporate / Circle /  SSA Hqs on 20-01-12.

SDE to DE adhoc promotion: CRs from NTR, HR, MH, NE-I ,Kolkata TD, Jharkhand not reached DPC section of BSNLCO, New Delhi. Concerned CSs kindly expedite.

United Forum of BSNL Executives writes to Sh. R.K. Upadhyay, CMD BSNL regarding abandon the move to recruit Sr. DGMs and Jt. GMs in direct contravention of existing BSNLMS RRs and process the legitimate demand of standard IDA pay scales of E2 and E3 for JTOs and SDEs

To register our strongest protest against the sinister move to dilute blatantly and unilaterally without any consultation and justification whatsoever the provisions of existing BSNLMS RRs, we have decided to observe following programs of protest actions to impress upon the management to immediately abandon the arbitrary move to induct Sr DGMs/Jt GMs.
Program of Protest action-

A) Country wide lunch hour demonstrations at Corporate/CGM/GM Hqs on 16th Jan,12.

B) Full day Dharna at Corporate/Circle/SSA Hqs on 20th Jan.,12.

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Notice will be issued today --- get ready for the struggle

Rect to DGM ( promotional post of Executives ) as Sr DGM & Jt GM in E6 and E7 Scales:

As per BSNLMS RR, 50% of DGM posts are to be filled by seniority and remaining 50% through MTs. Practically 100% of DGM posts are to be filled by promotion from internal candidates only. But now Managenment is filling the 600 DGM posts from outside when thousands of eligible candidates are available within BSNL having the same education qualification and experience as prescribed in the new RR.

ITS Officers with 9 years of service are recruited in E6 scale instead of E5 scale, Officers in E5 scale are recruited in E7 scale and Officers in E7 scale are recruited in E9 scale.

BSNL gone ahead even to protect their pay. Requirement worked out by BSNL itself was of around 450 officers but now recruiting 1050 officers, more than double of the actual requirement. BSNL is spending crores of rupees on this account. Practically all are recruited in an upgraded pay scale.

The genuine demand of about 52,000 executives to place them in standard E2, E3, E4 ---, E7 pay scales which is having nominal financial implications is not settled by the Mgt. As a result, the cadres like JTO/JAO and SDE/AO facing demotion.

50% External quota for rect to MT but no Extl quota for Lateral rect to DGM/GM/CGM.

If no Extl quota is reserved for Lateral rect to DGM/GM/CGM, then is there any justification for 50% Extl rect to MT posts as thousands of qualified Executives with sufficient experience are working in BSNL.

Education qualification and age for MT rect and Lateral rect to DGM / GM / CGM.

Educational qualification for Lateral recruitment to DGM / GM / PGM is retained as Degree in Engineering which is the basic qualification for entry level of Group A. No higher qualification like MTech or MBA is insisted for Direct rect to DGM/GM/CGM. The upper age limit for GM/CGM is fixed as 58 and for DGM, it is 50.

In the case of MTs, higher qualification than the entry level is insisting with an upper age limit of 36.

It is important to note that MTNL, the other PSU of DoT, the entry qualification for MT is retained as BSc with 60% marks or degree in Engineering with upper age limit of 55 for the first examination, 50 for the second and 40 for the subsequent examinations.

In contradiction to BSNL MS R/R, officers are recruited in E6 and E7 scale which are non functional grades with designations of Sr DGM and Jt GM.

In the case of Executives, BSNL Mgt is not implementing the change of designation along with change of scale, agreed by the Management long back.

GS SNEA , GS and president/AIBSNL EA and GS/MEA met Secy/DOT. While thanking Secy/DOT for taking a very decisive action to conclude the process of absorption of ITS in a time bound manner, and thereby end the uncertainty existing in BSNL for the last about five years, Secy / DOT reiterated the resolve of the government to ensure that the process initiated by DOT reaches its logical conclusion as expeditiously as possible, of course, taking into account the magnitude of the issue and the crucial fact that operations of gigantic sized BSNL are not impacted as far as possible while effecting this important organizational transition that is extremely critical for the growth of BSNL.

Subsequently, the following issues were discussed.

A)  Filling up posts of DGMs:

 We apprized Secy/DOT that huge number of JAG posts is unfilled and thousands of eligible STS officers are available to fill up these posts. However, because of inexplicable reasons, BSNL management pleads its helplessness to promote STS to JAG because of some unwarranted restrictions imposed by DOT. The net result of all this is that hundreds of STS officers are retiring without getting promoted to JAG, even though abundant posts of JAG are available and a well defined mechanism in BSNL MS RRs is envisaged. Secy/DOT was quite receptive on this issue and assured that he will discuss the issue with CMD and try to resolve it.

 B)   Encroaching upon the limited career growth of executives by recruiting 600 senior DGMs through new RRs:

Recruiting 600 senior DGMs through the provisions of new RRs is a direct infringement on the existing BSNLMS RRs and a serious attack on existing meagre promotional avenues of executives since such recruitment would mean directly utilizing 600 JAG posts, exclusively meant for career growth of Gr B / Gr A, and, in the process, also, creating another unwarranted functional cadre in the existing cadre hierarchy between JAG and SAG, thereby making promotion from DGM to GM almost impossible for executives within the organization, we apprised Secy / DOT who advised us to discuss the nitty gritties of new RRs and their implications on our career growth with CMD/BSNL.
 

C)   Payment of spectrum charges for spectrum in excess of 6.2 mhz by BSNL/MTNL:

We requested Secy/DOT that government should exempt both BSNL/MTNL from payment of additional spectrum fees for spectrum it holds in excess of 6.2 mhz since BSNL/MTNL has being meeting social obligations objective of telecom operations of the government by providing services in remotest rural areas at huge costs, and without any returns. Secy/DOT assured that all these aspects would be duly considered by government while taking final decision on the issue.

All the Circle Office Bearers, District/Branch Secretaries and Activists of SNEA(I) Bihar Circle are requested to give their feedback immediately on e-mail : cs.sneabihar@gmail.com in this regard for further convey to CHQ.