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Pay Anomalies of Batch 2007/2008, E-2/e-3 scale, Rule 8 & Seniority fixation


Shri Amit Roy, CS Delhi Branch & AGS (HQ) and Shri Ravi Shil Verma, VP (HQ) met GM ( Establishment) Shri D P DE and had an elaborate discussion on the Pay scales of newly Recruited JTOs. It was emphasized to GM (Estt) that the JTOs were recruited in the pre-revised scale of 9850-250-14600 (E1A) and to place them in revised scales of 16400-40500 (E1) is sheer injustice. GM (Estt) informed that the file in regard to the pay scale is with DoT and any decision can be taken only after the communication of DPE in this regard. AGS and VP again clarified to GM (Estt) that it has been learnt from DoT that intermediate scales have been rejected by DoT itself and so there is no other alternative than to implement the standard E2 scales for JTO/JAO level cadres and E3 for SDE/AO level cadres. Leaders requested for an immediate appropriate action to ensure that standard pay scales of E2 & E3 are in place in the least possible time.



Pay Anomalies of DRJTO Batch 2007/2008 :

CHQ leaders also pointed out that the pay scales of these newly recruited JTOs have been reduced to near about Rs. 4200/- if compared to the initially promised pre-revised scales of 9850-250-14600 through the recruitment notifications. Shri Ravi Verma and Amit Roy requested GM (Estt) that as an interim and immediate measure, till the finalization of new scales, pay of JTOs of batch 2007 onwards may be fixed in the pre-revised promised scale of 9850-250-14600 vide the recruitment notification or by granting the difference in pay as personnel pay. GM ( Establishment ) assured to look into the matter positively.

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CMD's Stringent Intiative

Our new Hon' CMD Mr. Gopal Das has initiated stringent measures to check closure of telecom facilities provided by BSNL. We wholeheartedly support such measures and fixing the responsibility in the chain of discharge from the top brass to bottom line. In these days of hectic competition losing an in-hand customer cant be justified rather than capturing a new customer.
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BSNL deprived of deserved money?

Deposit 50% of BSNL dues with SC, telcos told
NEW DELHI: Leading telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, will have to deposit with the Supreme Court half of the Rs 470-crore carrier charges they owe to state-owned BSNL, the apex court said.

“You would have to show your bona fide and have to submit at least half the amount in the Supreme Court registry, then only we would stay TDSAT’s order,” a bench comprising Chief Justice SH Kapadia and Justice KS Radhakrishnan told COAI and AUSPI, the two operators’ lobbies, which have challenged the sectoral tribunal TDSAT’s order.

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India Plans to Introduce IPv6 by 2012

India will start using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) from March 2012, according to a new roadmap released by the Indian government.
All telecom and ISPs will have to be IPv6-compliant by the end of next year and offer IPv6 services thereafter, the government said in a statement issued on Wednesday by the country’s Press Information Bureau.

Gopal Das appointed as acting CMD of BSNL

State-run telecom operator BSNL today appointed Gopal Das as acting Chairman and Managing Director after the retirement of Kuldeep Goyal.

Mr. Goyal retired as CMD on July 31.

Mr. Das, who is serving as Director (Human Resources Development) in the telecom PSU, will be the acting chief till a new CMD is appointed by the government-nominated search panel.

The government has constituted a search-cum-selection panel, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, for finding suitable candidates for the posts of CMD of BSNL and MTNL, as part of restructuring to make them financially viable.

The panel has invited applications from candidates in the public and private sectors for these posts. The new chiefs of the two telecom PSUs will be hired on a contract basis with a fixed term of three years, which can be extended for a further period of three years based on performance evaluation by an external expert group.

Mr. Das, on his appointment as CMD, said, “After a good old journey of more than three decades, this is the best form of reward I can seek for my career. A great challenge lies ahead of us and I am sure we will meet every challenge with determination.”

Prior to joining BSNL in 2007, Mr. Das has served as the Chief General Manager (Wireless Services) in Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited at Mumbai.

The losses coincided with a distinction of BSNL achieving mobile subscriber base of 100 million.

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The losses coincided with a distinction of BSNL achieving mobile subscriber base of 100 million.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Saturday reported a loss of Rs.1,822.65 crore in 2009-10, first-ever in the company's history. It had reported a profit of Rs.575 crore in 2008-09. It also reported a 10.4 per cent decline in its revenue at Rs.32,045.41 crore in 2009-10 compared to previous fiscal's Rs.35,812 crore.

Reduction in tariff

“The loss has occurred mainly due to reduction in revenue and increase in expenditure. Revenue has gone down due to drastic reduction in tariff, fierce competition as well as decline in fixed wireline connection due to preference of the subscribers for mobile,” BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters here.

He retired on Saturday after a three-year stint as the head of the telecom major.

Mr. Goyal pointed out that the wage revision had alone caused an additional expenditure of Rs.2,900 crore over the previous year on account of payment of arrears for the period from January, 2007 to March, 2010. “Had the wage revision expenditure not been there, the company would have recorded a profit before tax to the tune of Rs.703 crore,” he added. For BSNL, this is the first-ever loss registered since its inception in October 2000 when it was hived off from the Department of Telecommunications.

1Mb For All....A 1000,000,000Mb (1Tbps) Market!

After France, the Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right .When India Will?
Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications has made 1-megabit broadband Web access a legal right, YLE, the country's national broadcasting company, reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, every person in Finland (a little over 5 million people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb broadband connection starting in July. And they may ultimately gain the right to a 100Mb broadband connection.

Just more than a year ago, Finland said it would make a 100Mb broadband connection a legal right by the end of 2015. Wednesday's announcement is considered an intermediate step.


France, one of a few countries that has made Internet access a human right, did so earlier this year. France's Constitutional Council ruled that Internet access is a basic human right. That said, it stopped short of making "broadband access" a legal right. Finland says that it's the first country to make broadband access a legal right.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/BSNL-may-find-a-lifeline-in-Rs-18000-cr-govt-project/articleshow/6156970.cms

• Is the esteemed Economic times Reviews went in parleys to write for Private Telcos?
• What is its motivation for The privatisation of Not the company (BSNL) but its Breadearner (Infrastructure) only?
• Is 18000 cr to Loss Making PSUs like Feeding before Slaughter?

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NEW DELHI: The government plans to award BSNL a Rs 18,000-crore project to improve broadband connectivity in the country, throwing a lifeline to a company whose snail-like expansion plans have left it groping in the dark against fleet-footed private rivals.

The boadband for all project involves building WiMAX networks across rural India and laying a 5 lakh km optic fibre cable (OFC) to ensure that broadband connectivity reaches every panchayat, says a new proposal that is to be circulated for a meeting of secretaries on Monday. Though BSNL can strengthen and extend its own fibre and WiMAX networks, it must share the infrastructure with all private telcos.

Enhancing BSNL’s existing networks negates the need to create an independent company and duplicate infrastructure, as was originally proposed but abandoned after government officials thought it to be a waste of money. The proposal explores the wireless broadband option as well as involvement of the private sector in a bid to pre-empt howls of protests from critics.

The earlier plan called for a new infrastructure company carved out of BSNL, Power Grid Corporation of India and RailTel to execute this project with support from the Universal Service Obligation(USO) Fund. The infrastructure was then to be shared by all telecom companies and monitored by an independent agency.

The government also plans to double the subsidy that BSNL receives to maintain its unviable landline business in rural India and other far-flung places to Rs 4,000 crore a year. The money comes from the USO Fund, made up of telecom companies’ 5% annual revenues.

The government is expected to dig into the USO Fund, established in 2002, to improve rural connectivity, and launch the broadband project. It is estimated that nearly Rs 25,000 crore is lying idle in the USO Fund.

The project will not come at a better time for BSNL, once a monopoly in domestic telephony, but now a pale shadow of its former self. The company’s financial performance has been declining over the years due to a ponderous expansion plan caught in the grip of red tape and trade union activity.

While private mobile phone firms such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and others left it behind by adding customers by the millions a month, BSNL could not even buy equipment required to serve a growing market, despite being the only telco to have a pan-India presence only a decade ago.

BSNL’s original tender for 63 million global system for mobile communications (GSM) lines in 2006 was slashed to 12 million by telecom minister A Raja. The next tender for 93 million GSM lines, the world’s largest equipment order, was cancelled after a series of controversies erupted. The project, depending on how it pans out, is expected to boost broadband penetration, which is less than 1% compared to a mobile penetration of nearly 60%.