Discussion held today, between the General Secretary, BSNLEU and the Director (HR), on certain important issues..

BSNLEU is continuously pursuing all the important staff issues with the Management and is taking efforts to find a solution to those issues. Today, Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, telephonically discussed the following issues with Shri Arvind Vadnerkar, Director (HR).

(1)    Relaxation in qualifying marks of the JTO LICE held on 26.05.2019.

Only a very few candidates got qualified in this exam, because of various problems in the question paper. 10 questions were asked with multiple correct answers. BSNLEU demanded that, the candidates should be given full marks for all these 10 questions. However, the Recruitment Branch stated that, as per the existing SOP (Standard Operating Procedure), all these questions have been removed. Thereafter, the issue was discussed with the Director (HR) and the CMD BSNL on various occasions and relaxation was demanded to the qualifying marks. Even though the Director (HR) is sympathetic, no improvement has come so far. This issue was once again discussed in detail with the Director (HR) today, who has assured to look into the case afresh.

(2)   Holding JE LICE as offline exam.

BSNLEU has consistently been demanding that the JE LICE should be held immediately. The Union is also demanding that the exam should be held as an “off-line” exam. The issue is already discussed several time with the Director (HR) and the GM(Rectt.). In today’s discussion, the General Secretary urged upon the Director (HR) to hold the JE LICE as an "off-line" exam without further delay. He pointed out that the aspirant candidates are frustrated, since they are waiting for the past couple of years to appear in the exam. The Director (HR) assured to do the needful.

(3)   Payment of Rs.10 lakh as compensation to the employees who die due to COVID-19.

As per the Hon'ble Delhi High Court order, the DoT has already issued letter, as per which the employees who die in accident, while on duty, should be paid a compensation of Rs.10 lakh. The Postal department has already extended this to the postal employees. Accordingly, the postal employees who die due to COVID-19, will be paid a compensation of Rs.10 lakh. BSNLEU has already written to the CMD BSNL, demanding implementation of this scheme to the BSNL employees. In today’s discussion, the General Secretary insisted immediate implementation of this scheme, in view of the fact that, the BSNL employees working at the field level, have become vulnerable to COVID-19. The Director (HR) replied that he had already directed the SR Branch to look into this matter. He also assured that the matter would be expeditiously looked into.