Corporate Office order on Budget Curtailment – another attempt to retrench contract workers in BSNL.

In the month of December 2025, the BSNL Corporate Office issued an order curtailing the budget allotment for the remaining months of the current financial year. Through this order, the Management has specifically targeted those sections where contract workers have been continuously performing duties for a long time, such as the Electrical Wing, Housekeeping, and Security Services. After the introduction of the Service Level Agreement (SLA), the strength of contract workers had already been substantially reduced, and the remaining workers are being paid meagre wages. Despite this, the issuance of the above-mentioned order has once again prompted the Circle-level Managements to initiate further retrenchment of contract workers. In several circles, the BSNL Casual Contract Workers Federation (BSNLCCWF) and BSNLEU have taken up this issue very seriously and have launched agitational programmes against the retrenchment of contract workers. In this connection, Com.Animesh Mitra, General Secretary, BSNLEU, met Shri P. D. Chiraniya, PGM (CBB) and Shri Rajeev Soni, CGM (Electrical) and drew their attention to the ongoing agitational programmes in the Electrical Wings of West Bengal and CTD Circles. He demanded immediate intervention by the Corporate Office to stop the retrenchment of contract workers and to protect their livelihood.