AUAB writes to Secretary, DoT regarding Pension Revision: Replying DoP&PW queries on Pension revision -- Very positive and sympathetic stand taken by DoP&PW to settle the Pension Revision for the pre-2017 BSNL Pensioners. The negative attitude of the concerned officers in DoT in replying to the queries made by DoP&PW delaying Pension revision:

GS writes to CMD, BSNL: Complete review of AMC of various equipments, switches, Engine Alternators, small power plants, Air conditioners etc required as part of austerity measures. On one side BSNL is talking about excess staff and planning for VRS and on the other side, cores of rupees expenditure is incurring as AMC charges by outsourcing the work on the pretext of acute shortage of Executives. This contradiction establishes the utter failure of our HR activities in BSNL.

GS writes to Secretary, DoT: Regular appointment to the vacant posts of Director(Finance), Director(CM), Director (EB) and Director (HR), BSNL Board for accelerating the growth and revival of BSNL. BSNL is having just one (01) functional Director (out of five) from May, 2019 on regular basis.

This Association was continuously taking up the issue of filling up the vacant posts of functional Directors of BSNL Board vide its letter dated 07.05.2018, 30.08.2018, 02.01.2019 and 21.01.2019. Director (Finance) post was vacant since December, 2013 for more than five years. Other three functional Director posts in BSNL, Director (CM), Director (EB) and Director (HR) also vacant. We express our sincere gratitude for the appointment to the posts of Director (Fin), Director (CM) and Director (EB) atleast on temporary basis which will ensure smooth functioning of BSNL at this crucial juncture. Posting to the crucial Director(HR) post also may be expedited.

Hon CAT, Chandigarh order dated 07.05.2019, dismissing the OA 063/01571/2018 aginst DGM promotion as the OA rendered infructuous:

GS, President and both AGSs met Shri Anupam Shrivastava on 08.05.20199 and held discussions on i) Promotions and bringing party in promotions, ii) DGM promotion, iii) HR Integration and iv) permission for transfer on interest of service for meeting the shortages in KTK and KRL Circles.

GS writes to CMD, BSNL: Proposed move to extend undue benefits to the Postal JAOs appointed in BSNL as fresh JAOs w.e.f 25.02.2005. Adherence to the terms and conditions of appointment of JAOs as external candidates to avoid anomalies. While taking any decision in this regard, the interest of the JAOs recruited by BSNL between 01.10.2000 to 24.02.2005 is to be protected first in terms of pay, seniority, promotions etc etc. Similarly the pay of the Executives in Civil/Elect/Arch/PA/PS/Arch/TF etc also to be revised by extending notional pay of E1A and E2A w.e.f 01.10.2000.

GS, President and both AGSs met the all the new BSNL Directors, Shri. Vivek Banzal/DIR(CFA), Shri. S. K. Gupta/DIR(Fin), Shri. B. L. Varshney/DIR(EB) and Shri. Sheetla Prasad Tripathi/DIR(CM) as a courtesy visit and held discussions on various points, allotment of funds especially for Odisha Circle etc.

GS writes to CMD, BSNL: Integration of all HR activities like recruitment, promotions, transfer and posting etc under single HR unit is implemented successfully by BSNL. The discrimination in transfer and postings, disparity in promotions and the anomalies created by it without considering the huge stagnation/backlog in different wings of the same company necessitated HR integration. Requests intervention to stop the retrograde move to reverse the HR integration and continue with discriminative and biased HR policies in BSNL by certain sections.