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24-03-2020 Emergency
instructions in view of Covid-19 :
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23-03-2020 Emergency
instructions in View of Covid-19 :
BSNL Corporate office Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Global Outbreak.. Dear Comrades… During this very toughest time, AIBSNLEA request all
beloved members and employees of BSNL to take all preventive and control measures as directed by WHO, Central/State
Govt. and other Govt. agencies. The preventive and control measures to be adopted in BSNL
Kerala Circle for the safety of our workforce are being well discussed with
CGMT Kerala by AIBSNLEA time to time. We are glad to record and express
gratitude that CGMT Kerala
Shri. C V Vinod
is very proactive on all our submissions to take care of the safety of
employees first. Some authenticated
details of the COVID-19 and Its prevention
: WHO Website CDC Website GOI |
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23-03-2020 GS Writes to Shri.
P.K.Purwar, CMD, BSNL regarding Preventive measures
required to be taken to contain the spreads of COVID-19 ......<<<Click here for letter>>> |
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18-03-2020 Details of discussions held between
CMD BSNL and recognized Unions & Associations BSNL: Recognized Unions & Associations of
BSNL were invited for discussions by the BSNL Management today to discuss
regarding restructuring plan and Revival of BSNL. CMD BSNL Sh. P.K. Purwar chaired the meeting. Com. S. Sivakumar,
GS AIBSNLEA, Com. Bhagwan Singh, AGS(HQ),
GS & President of BSNLEU, NFTE, SNEA participated in the meeting. Sh. Arvind Vadnerkar, Director(HR), BSNL Board and Sh. Manish Kumar,
GM(Restructuring) were also participated in the meeting. CMD BSNL welcomed all the Leaders of
BSNL recognized Unions & Associations and explained about the steps taken
by BSNL Management for maximization of revenue. Business Development SIM Sales: CMD mentioned that there
is 5% increase in SIM Sales in the month of Jan., Feb and March-2020. SIM
Sales in Feb.2020 is 18.80 lakhs and in March-2020
is 20 lakhs. Market Share of BSNL is increasing
marginally. In the BB Sector number of disconnection
is very significant and CMD further mentioned that we have to arrest the
disconnections of BB. In the EB Sector revenue is
increasing 8 to 10%. Mobile & Broadband overall
initially positive. Landline: Phase of
disconnections are very less. New Business: FTTH – 6000 OLTs integrated, due to this
customer base and constant partner momentum started. In the rural area, exchanges having 10 lines, 15 lines and 20 lines is
economically unviable. However, Hon’ble MOC assured
for subsidy. In the 20,000 Rural telephone exchanges human interface is
planned to be changed with the alternate technology. He further mentioned that upto 10 Kms in the rural area
localized mobile system on revenue share basis will be done with Bharat Air
Fiber at a speed of more than 60 Mbps speed. BSNL Revival Plan: CMD mentioned out of 78569 VRS Optees ,
78334 VRS applications were accepted and 198 VRS optees
has been expired. As on date 76929 VRS Optees have
been sanctioned with Provisional Pension. As on date about 75000 cases processed
for PPOs and forwarded to CCAs concerned. Out of that, 26370 PPOs were issued
till date. He appreciated the outstanding
efforts taken by the BSNL management with the support of the all the Unions
& Associations of BSNL for successful implementation of BSNL VRS-2019. He
also conveyed the message of Hon’ble MOC that today
Hon’ble MOC will appreciate the efforts and support
extended by all the Unions & Associations of BSNL for the successful
implementation of the BSNL VRS Plan -2019 in the Floor of the House. Release of Leave encashment and
Ex-gratia payments: CMD
BSNL assured that Leave encashment payment and Ex-gratia payment will be paid
on 31st March, 2020. Already 77585 VRS cases were processed
for the above cited payments. Rs. 4850 crore
towards Leave encashment after TDS is being processed in LIC. Finance
Ministry agreed to appropriate Rs. 5000 Crore
towards the first installment of Ex-gratia
payment, however, we are the short of 1300 crore
towards the payment of Ex-gratia. Hence balance amount of Ex-gratia will be
paid in the first week of April, 2020. Launching of 4G : Central Govt. made provision in the Budget
FY:2020-21 towards the cost of 4G license including GST but BSNL is not in a
position to take the 4G spectrum immediately due to following reasons: 1. We are having outstanding bills
to be payable to the vendors M/s ZTE, M/s Nokia and M/s Erricson to the tune
of Rs. 2000 Crores. 2. M/s Nokia installed 13000
equipment’s in the Phase 8.4 has quoted 3.5 lakh
for the software/hardware upgradation from 3G to 4G
and 7 lakh for green field which is L-1 subject to
the conditions that Rs.300 Cr has to be paid before 31.3.2020 and
compensation for Foreign Exchange fluctuation whereas M/s ZTE installed
around 24,000 equipment’s has quoted 7 lakh
for the software/hardware upgradation from 3G to 4G
and 10 lakh for green field which is L-2 but
the conditions put forth by M/s ZTE is unrealistic. In addition to this the
rates quoted by L-1 and L-2 alongwith conditions
has not been approved by the BSNL Board since consensuses has not been
reached. 3. If BSNL is taken 4G License
immediately without procurement/upgradation of
equipment’s we have to pay license fee @Rs. 5.5 crore
per day i.e. to the booked in the books of Accounts. 4. However, BSNL Management has
proposed to float new Tender for the procurements of 4G equipment’s in the
next week. It will take another 8 months for roll out of 4G. Union and Association’s Leaders
expressed their serious concern for the immediate launching of 4G in BSNL to
attract more customers and increase the revenue. Monetization of Assets: CMD mentioned that during the FY our Bank loan
including O/s bills comes around 40,000 crore. We
further required 10000 to 12000 Crore for 4G
launching and Rs. 5000 Crore for OFC maintenance.
BSNL is paying Rs. 4000 crore towards bank interest
and we can saved Rs. 6500 towards employee cost.
Roughly we required 50,000 crore for our annual
expenditure but our annual revenue is around Rs. 20000 crore.
Hence for the deficit BSNL is depending on Sovereign guarantee bond to the
tune of Rs. 8500 crore and monetization of vacant
assets. He further mentioned that in the first week of April,2020, BSNL will get a Rs. 8500 crore
Sovereign guarantee from Finance Ministry. 14 assets were identified by BSNL
for monetization but DIPAM accepts only 11 assets to the commercial value of
Rs. 18,200 Crore for which BSNL is expecting
transactional advise within a week. Three MNCs come
forward for purchase. Discussions has not been taken
place due to COVID-19. Merger of BSNL – MTNL: CMD mentioned that there is a pressure
for the merger of BSNL & MTNL to be completed within six months. Union
& Associations Leaders requested CMD BSNL to discuss with the recognized
Unions & Associations before the implementation of
merger. CMD replied that merger of BSNL & MTNL comes under the purview of equity structure of
DIPAM, Finance Ministry & DoT. However he
assured that suggestions of recognized Unions & Associations will be
taken care of and forwarded to DoT. We expressed our serious concern
regarding the non maintenance of vast Telecom Network due to non availability
of man power and non-implementation of outsourcing tender. CMD explained that
out of 1600 clusters EOI have been opened for 1100 cluster and tender have
been awarded for 280 clusters and he personally monitoring the same. We
brought to the notice of CMD, the problems faced by field unit executives for
attending the faults in the Primary cables due to non-availability of
man power in the post VRS scenario. We further requested Primary cables
maintenance has to be outsourced along with the secondary cable mtce. and also requested to relax the tender conditions
and powers has to be delegated to CGMs to utilize the existing staff of BSNL
who are having rich experience in attending the faults to participate in the
tender. CMD replied that he was aware of the
situation and it will be reviewed shortly. He further mentioned that
due to the non-implementation of the tender in all the clusters more funds
has been allotted to all the Circles to meet out the monthly mtce. expenditure and so as to
maintain the Telecom Network fault free. We expressed our serious concern
against the non implementation of outsourcing tender in CSCs. CMD appreciated
our concern and assured to look into. We requested CMD to issue
necessary instructions to the CGMs to provide hand sanitizer in all the CSCs
due to COVID-19. CMD agreed to issue instructions. We requested CMD to fix the time
line for the monthly salary disbursement since the net salary from Feb., 2020
onwards comes around Rs. 360 crore only. CMD
assured that salary disbursement will be streamlined within two months and
Feb., 2020 salary will be paid in last week of March-2020. Due to paucity of time Man, Power/
Restructuring Plan and other important items could not be discussed. CMD BSNL
assured that the meeting will be continued either 19.03.2020 or 20.03.2020.
Finally CMD told that we are on the right track and we have to expect the
outcome and assured that concerns of Unions & Associations will be taken
care of. Finally all the Union/Association Leaders thanked CMD BSNL and Director(HR), BSNL Board for the detailed discussions. The
meeting lasted for the two hours. |
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16-03-2020 CS writes to CGMT Kerala that recovery shall not be
permitted from the leave encashment of erstwhile –OJTOs : It is disheartened to learn that many BAs are sharpening knife to
carve out the proposed huge reduction from the leave encashment of the concerned
JTOs. Since leave encashment of DOT time is Tax Free , any recovery from leave encashment is effectively 30%
additional loss to the O-JTOs compared to recovery from any other sources of
retirement benefits like exgratia payment
/gratuity benefits as these are taxable up to @30% scale. …. ….. CGMT informed CS that he will give directions to PGM-F to withhold
recoveries till finalization of the matter. AIBSNLEA reciprocate sincere
thanks and regards to CGMT Kerala |
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13-03-2020 CS Com.Shaji , CVP Com.Rajan and AFS CHQ Com.Pushparajan had a meeting with CGMT Shri. C V Vinod at 9.45 AM yesterday
on 12 -03-2020 as invited by CGMT . All the pending
service and HR issues were discussed. The honest and Inspiring attitude of CGMT Kerala towards the
service/HR issues discussed is
sincerely appreciated by this association .The meeting concluded around 11.15
AM New FTTH customer addition :
We expressed the pressure at field in achieving FTTH targets
assigned. To achieve targets through BSNL staff, as of now BSNL hasn’t have
sufficient man and materials and tempting to attain some count through LCO
. Apparently the chance of swapping
BSNL BB customers to LCO FTTH , if at all happening
so , is not economical to BSNL and it
cannot be entertained . We requested CGMT to adopt some regulatory means to
avoid swapping of higher plan BB customer to basic FTTH BB499 plan through LCOs . CGMT shared our concern and assured to issue
instructions. Strengthen FTTH sector on BSNL own feet : During AUAB meeting AIBSNLEA suggested to take measures to
strengthen the FTTH sector by giving maximum connection by BSNL itself , especially in the new era of external plant
outsourcing wherein our filed staff those engaged with maintenance of LL are
free . The staff, not engaged otherwise, may be engaged with the FTTH BB
provisioning sector. Relocate more number of the Wi-Fi hotspots both USO/MDO: We requested to relocate more number of the Wi-Fi hotspots in
potential areas to provide more coverage around telephone exchange
/Offices/BTS premises and thereby generating revenue at least to meet OPEX of
the services so that we can arrest BSNL bleeding from the Wi-Fi
services. <<<Letter submitted to CGMT >>> CGMT appreciate
our proposal and assured to examine it as per guidelines given in the letter.
He added that Dir(CFA)
, Corporate Office has requested
promotion of @Rs.2 per day unlimited browsing through Paytm
in all the wifi hotspot areas and
the same needs to be done . He added that he wants to see the service
improved. Immediate
arrangements to address the technical issues with CACU/LAGU , arrangements to address the frequent
failures of CDOT NGN LAGU control
cards having no support from CDOT , Completing ATs of POI/PRI to shut down
Legacy switches ,need for proper
mobile tuning of mobile network to
address coverage issues , issues with
CSCs being managed by DAS in taking part payments/Other Circle’s Bills/SIM
Swapping etc have also been discussed . Heavy
recovery from erstwhile O_JTOs on erroneous pay fixation : The matter is discussed at length and CGMT assured to give all
possible supports. As per discussion AIBSNLEA submitted a new letter with all
points in brief. We extend
our sincere gratitude towards your magnanimity in listening and
empathetically considering the grave case of the matter in subject during
this association meeting with you
today on 12-03-2020. As per suggestion, the following points are put
up briefly to your kind notice to understand the case in detail and take the
righteous decision to stop the erroneous recovery from the O-JTOs . 1.
As per the order
No- AP-II/Exe.pay.Rvn/09/5 dated 16-03-2009 2nd IDA
pay-revision of executive cadre implemented .
According to this order Officiating JTOS pay fixed similar to Regular JTOS w.e.f 01/01/2007 (Annexure 1) . 2.
After
implementation of non executive pay revision order dated 07/05/2010 ,Kerala circle issued an order regarding
erroneous pay fixation of officiating
JTOS on 11/10/2012 (Annexure2). Corporate office directed all circle heads on
22-12-2015 regarding pay fixation of OJTOs w. r .t substantive cadre
superseding all previous orders ( Annexure 2A) 3.
Due to the issue
of this order pay reduction is effected, so affected parties have challenged
this order in Honble CAT Eranakulam
vide OA NO 1022/2012. CAT directed in favourable to officiating
JTOS . After that BSNL Kerala filed review petition vide RA 30/2015 , There after filed clarification MA vide MA NO 1370/2016. This MA Finalised on 05/01/2017. Court directed as pay fixation
to be regularised as per Annexure 2 , but recovery is not insisted
(Annexure 3) 4.
This matter is
communicated to All BA heads through letter No HR-III/2-5/JTO(O)
pay fixation/2012/part-1/59 dated 12/02/2018. Intimation regarding recovery
of overpayment will be given after receiving direction from corporate
office.(Annexure 4) 5.
Fr 22 (1) a 1 finalisation
order issued by corporate office on
18/09/2018 (Annexure 5) 6.
On 01/05/2019 order
No- 1-06/2016-PAT(BSNL) issued by Corporate Office New DElhi
on the basis of Hon’ble Supreme court Judgment
regarding Excess /Wrong full payments recovery matter (Annexure 6) 7.
Kerala circle DGM (HR)clarification
letter to corporate office regarding recovery matter on 19/08/2019 is
attached . In this letter it is
mentioned that as per court direction recovery can be done (Annexure
7) 8.
On the very next day 0n 20/08/2019 DGM legal
Kerala sought another clarification for recovery on 20/08/2019 9.
On the basis of
above point No:8 , corporate
office clarified on 30/08/2019 to
implement court direction on recovery issue
.(Annexure 8) 10. Affected JTOS have requested to CGM Kerala to examine whether recovery to be done
either on the basis of Annexure 6 or
recovery to be exempted on the basis of
Annexure 8 (Annexure 9) 11. Accordingly CGM
once again sought clarification from Corporate Office on 28/09/2019 ( Annexure 10 ). 12. Corporate office clarified on 14/10/2019 that
PAT order dated 01-05-2019 is
applicable according to the merit of the case (Annexure 11) 13. Unfortunately Circle office has not accepted this
letter because of their standing argument that OJTOs belong to Group-B. 14. Another
clarification has been sought from Kerala circle office to corporate office on 21/12/2019
whether officiating JTOS are in group B or group C Category(Annexure 12) 15. On 09/01/2020 again corporate office reiterated that O-JTOs are in group C Category . (Annexure 13). As such no
recovery can be made from OJTOs as per BSNL PAT order dated 01-05-2019(Annexure 6). So far
no action has been taken by circle office on this favourable
point, despite recovery process has been initiated
by many BAs. It is a matter of clear injustice as neither any Hon. Court nor BSNL Corporate Office directed BSNL Kerala Circle to start recovery process . Immediate
Filling up of Vacant CAO posts in all Bas: We requested CGMT to Immediate Filling up of Vacant CAO posts in
all BAs to effortlessly achieve our financial goals and targets .This has not
been happened so far even after our multiples of requests to the CGMT and
PGMF in every meeting . CGMT stated very
categorically that he hasn’t have any restriction in extending any kind of
benefits, if rules permit. As per discussion we submitted our
proposal on the number of IFA/CAO needed per BA for smooth financial service
IN Kerala Heavy
recovery from supernumerary JTOs
without extension of proper option facility : The matter is also discussed at length and we feel we could convince
the heavy damage to the group of JTOs . 1.
Officiating
started in year 2004 or 2005 . At the time pay
fixation was done in JTO scale as per FR 22 1 a 1 fitment .
so pay reached in 9850-250- scale . minimum stage 9850 sanctioned 2.
After one year in
2006 one increment of Rs 250 given and reached in 10,100 stage. 3.
2nd IDA pay
revision for executive on 5/03/2009 and non executive for 7/05/2010 4.
Normally the pay
revision given to this category of JTOs
on the basis of 2009 order of executive wef
01/01/2007 5.
Their BP was 23400 in 2007 and one increment is given in 2008,2009 etc
up to their pension period in 2018 0r
2019 etc 6.
In 2011 corporate
office issued for option those who are promoted from non executive from
executive before
issuing the non executive pay revision order on 07/05/2010.
This option is not circulated and they all of them are enjoying the benefit
from 2007 to onwards similar to a regular JTO. etc We requested CGMT to spot
the matter empathetically for the benefits of the supernumerary JTOs . CGMT assured to look
into the matter positively Inter
BA long stay transfer of executives : We discussed about the matter in detail with CGMT and requested
to certainly extend the privilege of immunity against transfer, if any
officer deserve as per rules well before issuing transfer orders. However,
after releasing transfer orders while almost all officers are getting
relieved as they have obeyed BSNL transfer rules, issuing repeated extension orders /
repeated relieving orders /Struck off from ERP / once again extension order
for some other officers is nothing but a mockery to all other officers obeyed
the orders and got relieved . AIBSNLEA is not against extending any kind of
benefits to any officer and on the other hand we cannot support this unhealthy
hide and seek game. CGMT shared our views and assured to release inter BA transfer orders
without any glitch from next time onwards. All other pending HR issues were also been discussed for a
positive result |
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