A special meeting was conducted
by AIBSNLPWA, Coimbatore District.
The meeting was held at the
Recreation Club premises of Office of PGM,Coimbatore 641043 with a gathering
of about 150 members.
11.00 am
Initially International Womens
Day function started in the presence of.
S/Shri P.S.Raman Kutty, All India President, G.Gurusamy, District
President, B.Arunachalam, District
Secretary.
Smt Kalyani Hariharan, Asst
Secretary presided over the function. She recalled that the Womens Day is
observed since 1913. She added that the Govt should come forward to pass the
bill affording 33% reservation to women in all fields.
Felicitation by:
Smt Chandra Priya, HR Advisor
cited Mahakavi Bharathi who initiated several activities for womens liberation during
his days. In ancient days women did cooking with prayers. Education, freedom of
speech is essential to women for their uplift.
Senior member Smt Swarnambal,
Vice President Shri C.Palanisamy also felicitated. Smt Jothi presented a poem
on Womens Day and sang a song.
Vice President Shri
R.Thiruvenkatasamy felicitated. In his speech he mentioned the various stages
of women begin with childhood. The observance of the Day started in America,
now celebrated in various parts of the world. Normally women give birth child
except Male Sea Horse which give birth young ones through its mouth.
Asst Secretary Smt B.Jayasri and
member Shri C.Palanisamy also felicitated.
In her concluding speech Smt
Kalyani Hariharan condemned the atrocities and sex rapes committed by the
society upon women including girl children. She made appeal to the people and the Govt to stop
such evils.
In order to give way to Shri
P.S.Raman Kutty to deliver his special address,
the Womens Day Celebration did not continue beyond 12 Noon. . Due to
overwhelming gathering of lady members,
District Secretary Shri B.Arunachalam assured that a special meeting
will be shortly arranged in a elaborate manner.
12 NOON
Special meeting presided by the
Dt President.
Welcome address given by the Dt
Secretary. He put forth issues on (1) Drivers problem- extra increment case,
(2) Medical bills- non creation of vendor code, (3) Pension of last pay
drawn/average of 10 months pay and (4) Extra increment denial to non executives
who did not get 10% promotion.
Special address by Shri P.S.Raman
Kutty.
Anomoly on Pension: After 1.1.2006, pension is paid 50% on Last
Pay drawn.
10 years service is enough is to get full pension.
But prior to 1.1.2006, it is paid 50% on last 10 months average pay .Full
pension who completed 33 years and others on pro rata basis. This is an anomaly
and All India Union is fighting to remove it. It is also planning to file
petition in Supreme court.
Corporate office ordered to pay
the medical bills within a month time. But most of the SSAs in several circles
do not follow this time schedule. All India Union discussed the issue with the
Director(HR/ Fin) and other senior officers to over come this delay.
Income Tax is deducted from the
payment of medical bills beyond Rs 15,000/- even though the annual income of
the pensioners is within non taxable limit. Our union took up the matter to
Corporate Office. Such pensioners have to submit Form 12 B.B. to the concerned
SSA not to effect TDS.
Even though the cabinet approved
for payment of 78.2% fitment DR arrears by 31.12.2016, most of the DOT CCAs did
not pay the arrears because most of the SSAs forwarded the revised pension
sanction memos alongwith service books only during the last week of Dec,2016..
The delay caused in payment brought to the notice of Corporate Office by our
union. Corporate office sent reminders to all the CCAs to expedite the cases.
The limit of Gratuity payment is
enhanced from 10L to 20 L Rupees from 1.1.2016.
Our union won the the pension
anomaly case in r/o the retirees before 31.7.2001. Efforts are under way
with our corporate office to release the
order in this regard without filing Writ Appeal by BSNL.
Future Pension Revision: As we are covered under CCS(Pension) Rules,1972, our union is
demanding the 7th CPC fitment factor to BSNL pensioners from 1.1.2017 since we got the earlier revision in
1.1.2007. We also demand future pension revisions from 1.1.2027 and onwards
based CPC fitment factor.
In Kerala Circle, extra increment
is offered to the pensioners who won in CAT case. Our union is pressing the
Corporate Office to extend the said benefit to other pensioners on the same
lines of CAT judgement.
Now our demand is achieved in
getting land line free calls between 9 pm to 7 am wef. 9.3.2017.
A request was put forth to All
India Union to take up the minimum balance issue pronounced by SBI to the Top level bank authority through
our CMD to continue the status quo since most our pensioners are getting their
pension from SBI.
Meeting concluded by 2 pm with a vote
of thanks by Shri S.Ramakrishnan, Asst Secretary.
Compiled by R.Perumal. VP