OUR LEADERS ARE IN ACTION ON 78.2 IDA

Our Vice President Com. DG and Dy. GS Com. Gangadhara Rao are in New Delhi to pursue the pending cases. They met the member (Finance), DDG (Estt.) and Director (Estt). Secretary, Telecom has gone out of India.

Our leaders will meet the Additional Secretary Tomorrow, 26-2-2016. (They could not meet Shri Ananthakumar as the Minister is busy in inviting all dignitaries for the wedding of his daughter. Com. Natarajan, GS will reach New Delhi on 29-2-2016 and he along with Dy GS will continue the efforts.)

78.2% CASE

It is understood that the new Secretary (Shri J S Deepak IAS) wanted member (Services) to discuss details of the case. After sending the file to Member(S) asking to discuss, the Secretary has gone abroad!! 

He will come back by end of this month.Then the Member (S) and DDG (Estt) will brief the Secretary about the case. 

PENSION ADALAT AT NATIONAL LEVEL 

Our association has been making consistent efforts to have Pension Adalat at national level. Nobody else thought of it. We continued our efforts.Now, we are happy to inform  that Member (Finance) has agreed to hold Pension Adalat at national level.

Rs 114000 CRORE WRITTEN OFF in three years....! 

17/02

The Supreme Court has ordered RBI to share information about cases where loans amounting to Rs 500 crore and above have been written off by public sector banks.

Taking suo motu cognizance of The Indian Express report that Rs 1.14 lakh crore of bad loans had been written off by state-owned banks between 2013 and 2015, the Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to share with it names of all defaulters who owe over Rs 500 crore and continue to lead “lavish lifestyle”.

NOTE: The banks will not write off a single rupee, the ordinary people have to repay. But, there is another rule for the big guns in the society....

Finance Ministry wants all types of data to sanction a small increase in the pension of about one lakh pensioners.

These banks who have written off Rs 1.14 LAKH CRORE are working under the same Finance Ministry..... 

NEW SECRETARY WANTS DETAILS

16/02

It is understood that the new Secretary, Telecom (Shri J S Deepak IAS) returned the file on 78.2% to Member(Services) asking the Member to discuss details of the case with the former.

Change of Secretary has created unexpected delay in the case.

The Cabinet Note finalized in December 2014 is pending in Sanchar Bhavan for about 14 long months. 

           கடலூர் பகுதி இரண்டாம் ஆண்டு விழா

கடலூர் பகுதி இரண்டாம் ஆண்டு விழா தோழர் K.முத்தியாலு தமிழ் மாநில தலைவர்  தலைமையில்  15-2-2016 அன்று காலை 10 மணியளவில் வெகு சிறப்பாக நடந்தது..நமது கடலூர் உறுப்பினர்கள் அனைவரும் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.மாவட்டத்தின் பிற பகுதிகளிலிருந்தும்  முன்னணி தோழர்கள் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.
கீழ் கண்ட நிகழ்ச்சி நிரலின்படி 130 உறுப்பினர்களின் பங்கேற்போடு கூட்டம் வெகுசிறப்பாக நடந்தேறியது.

என்ற ஒரு நம்பிக்கையோடு கூட்டம் இனிதே நிறைவுற்றது.

A WEDDING CELEBRATION

Com. T S Vittoban, CHQ Treasurer, celebrated the wedding of his son Mr Ajay with Ms Shrilekha on 10-2-2016 in Chennai. Large number of our comrades including GS , attended the function.

We wish the couple a long ideal and happy wedded life.

78.2 IDA DELAYED STILL..CHQ News

Till 4.45 PM yesterday (9-2-2016) the File is with new Secretary, Telecom.

Being a cabinet Note, the Secretary is responsible for  any mistake or factual error and hence  he will sign the papers only after studying the same.  He has taken over few days back only.  

As far as we are concerned  it is an old case, delayed and delayed in Sanchar Bhavan.

‘contempt of Court’ on One extra Increment case..

One extra Increment was granted to Grade III officials who did not get promotion to Grade IV.   CCAs in seven Circles refused to count this extra increment as pay while fixing pension.  Their plea was that with this extra increment the pay crossed maximum of the pay scale and hence  it can not be taken as pay.

Kerala circle Unit of our Association and four members filed a case in CAT, Ernakulam.   On 15-3-2012 the CAT gave a judgement and asked DoT to re-fix pension counting the extra increment even if the pay exceeded the maximum of pay scales.  Four months time was given to implement their order.It was not honoured.

As directed by the Directorate of DoT, the Kerala CCA filed an appeal in High Court. In July 2015, the High Court dismissed the appeal. Even after seven months, the Court order is not honoured. Directorate has not given any instruction to CCA, Kerala despite repeated requests.

Finding no alternative, our Association has filed a ‘contempt of Court’ petition against the DoT and CCA etc. The High Court has accepted the petition on 8-2-2016.

CHQ NEWS

GREEK WORKERS DEMAND SOCIAL SECURITY

06/02

On 4th February 2016, the workers of Greece, in Athens city, organised mammoth rallies demanding a proper pension system ensuring social security. It was part of a 24 hours general strike organised under the banner of PAME, a left wing Trade Union in Greece.

[Courtesy: Trade Union International P&R]

ANOMALY CASE POSTPONED TO 15-3-2016!

04/02

The Pension anomaly case came up before Principal bench of CAT on 3-2-2016. It was No 55 in the list of 66 cases to be taken up. But, the Double Bench sat for just 1 hour and 30 minutes and took up few cases. All other cases were simply postponed. Our case is posted to 15-3-2016.

It is said that JUSTICE DELAYED MEANS JUSTICE DENIED. 

The wheels of justice, the saying goes, grind slowly but grind exceedingly fine. In the Indian context, it would be more true to say that they grind so exceedingly slowly that there can be nothing fine about the outcome.... [TOI report]

According to the report appeared in Times of India, 45 lakh cases were pending in 24 High Courts as in June, 2014. It is not known how many cases are pending in various benches of CAT.

CAT was created as a mechanism to ensure speedy re-dressal of grievances of employees and pensioners in service matter. But, the experience is other way round. Many of the Courts are over loaded. 30-35% posts of judges are lying vacant for years together.

Only when justice is denied people go to Court. Going to the Court itself is the first punishment. Hence, everybody wants to avoid it.

If the court fails to give them the remedy in time, where shall the people go?

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THE FILE HAS FINALLY MOVED....

03/02

Our AGS Com. R C Malhotra reports at 4 PM :

"The File containing the Cabinet Note on 78.2% has just moved to Secretary, Telecom".

CHQ REQUIRES THE DETAILS

01/02

A sum of Rs 3575 has been credited in the accounts of CHQ by the bank on 29-1-2016.

We are waiting for details. The branch which has sent the amount may please contact the Treasurer and give details. 

W SESHAGIRI RAO IS NO MORE

01/02

Com. W Seshagiri Rao, veteran leader of JTOs and Executives in Telecom/BSNL expired today morning at 1 AM in Bangalore after a cardiac arrest. We convey our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members