Consumer Price Index increases by 2 points

All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers-AICPI( IW)for December 2019 increased by TWO Points and pegged at 330. Central Govt.Employees and Pensioners get 4% DA more from January 2020. Their total DA will be 21%

Pension Anomaly Case - Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has dismissed the appeals submitted by Department of Telecom and Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare etc. in the Pension Anomaly case originally filed by our Association. 8 Weeks times is given to the DoT to implement the order of CAT, Principal Bench dated 16th December 2016.

High Court judgement dated 24-1-2020 is given here: 

Please click on this link to see the judgement:  Delhi HC Order

BSNL was formed on 1-10-2000. Three lakhs employees were enmasse absorbed in BSNL. About 4300 of them retired from service on superannuation between October 2000 and July 2001. They could not complete ten months' service in BSNL. Their pension was fixed at 50% of ten months average pay as per the extant rules. A portion of those 10 months fell in CDA pattern and another portion in IDA pattern of pay scales. This fixation created a serious anomaly. Those 4300 people got less pension than their juniors and their seniors as well. This matter was discussed by service unions for many years. No result.

Then, our Association took up the matter with DoT authorities. We submitted concreted proposals, based on precedence, to solve the problem. But, the adamant officers in DoT were not willing to listen.

Finally our Association filed and a case before CAT Principal bench in 2014. 13 Pensioners including Late Com. Chiddu Singh, Com. R L Kapoor of Delhi, Com. G R Dharmarajan of Madurai, Com. R Ranganathan of Chennai, Com V Ramachandran of Tirur etc. were individual petitioners in the Case. On 16th December 2016, CAT ordered that the anomaly should be removed by DoT. The method too was specified.

But Officers in DOT were not ready to settle the anomaly. They delayed the matter. Then we filed a Contempt of Court case. To avoid contempt, the Departments filed appeals in High Court of Delhi. Now, the High Court has dismissed the Appeals from Departments.

Good number of affected pensioners have already left this earth. Those living are 79 years or 80 years old.

WE hope that the Honourable minister for communications, Shri Ravi Shankr Prasad, a legal luminary himself , and the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji will not drag the old people to Supreme Court by filing unwanted Appeal. The CAT order should be implemented immediately. All consequential benefits should be granted to the affected pensioners alive and to the family pensioners of those who departed.

AIBSNLPWA has not collected a single paisa from any pensioner for this protracted legal fight. Original Case, Contempt of Court petition, Appeal in the High Court. On the other hand, members of our Legal Committee had spent lot of their time and energy to prepare the papers, running in hundreds of pages. We express our deep appreciation and thanks to late Com. Chhidu Singh, Com. D Gopalakrishnan, Com. R L Kapoor and Com. R H Mitkary for the efforts made.

There are about 100 such affected pensioners in Andhra Circle. All the DS of our circle are requested to find out the pensioners who retired during the said period and inform them all.  CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL.

New Branch at Narsipatnam

New branch  at  NARSIPATNAM of Visakhapatnam is opened today. Presided by Com SVSN MURHTY addressed by  Dist. sec.  Com K Somasundara Rao and Dist. Executive members Comrades M Venkateswarlu. Branch opened with 40  members at NARSIPATNAM.  attended. Comrades S Venkateswarlu Retired SDOT as President and Sri K Sivaprasada Rao Retd OS   as Secretary and P Venkata Rao as Treasurer are unanimously elected. Congratulations to newly elected office-bearers and to Com K.Soma Sundaes Rao, and Com SVSN- Murty and their team for a right step at right time.

Provision of GSM in lieu of RSTC in TNF areas

BSNL CO issues orders for Provision of GSM in lieu of RSTC in TNF areas click here 

IDA from 01-01-2020

DPE issued orders for payment of IDA at revised rate of @157.3 from 01-01-2020. Click here IDA from 01-01-2020

IDA 157.3 % FROM 01-01-2020

All India Consumer Price  Index for Industrial Workers- AICPI for November,2019 increased by THREE points and pegged at 328. Therefore we will get IDA 157.3% i.e.5.3% increase from January 2020