VRS – BSNLEU throws an open challenge.

BSNLEU organised a country wide successful Black Badge Wearing programme and Lunch Hour demonstrations against VRS, increasing working hours up to 12 hours and threatenings to dismiss employees under FR 56(J). Some leaders have become nervous after BSNLEU gave the call for agitation. They say that, the Management is not having any proposal to implement VRS and that, BSNLEU is unnecessarily creating fear among the employees. Through this website updating, BSNLEU throws an open challenge. Recently, Management uploaded a document on it’s official Intranet. On the first page of this document, it is mentioned as Presentation for the Heads of Circles conference to be held on 04^th & 05^th August, 2022. In this document, proposal is given in page no.32 for retrenching 35,000 employees (employees who are 45 years and above). It is also mentioned that 40,000 employees are sufficient to run BSNL. This is not BSNLEU’s imagination, but written in black and white, in the official document of BSNL, which was uploaded on the official Intranet of BSNL. In the conciliation meeting held by the Dy.CLC on 17.08.2022, the PGM(SR) stated that, this was an old document and it was uploaded on the Intranet by mistake. We would like to ask one question. Are the dates 04^th & 05^th August, 2022 old? In the said document, it is mentioned as “Presentation to be made in the Heads of Circles Conference to be held on 04^th & 05^th August, 2022.” We ask the Management, how this can be an old document? Due to some reason, only known to the Management, this document has been removed from the Intranet. But, it does not mean that the Management did not have proposal for retrenching 35,000 employees. They cannot escape by saying that the document is removed from the Intranet. In yesterday’s Dy.CLC conciliation, the PGM(SR) said that, there is no proposal for VRS at present. The employees should remember that, the Government retrenched 80,000 employees under VRS in 2020. But, before implementing that VRS, both the Management and the Government had been saying that, there was no proposal for VRS. It is unfortunate now, that some union leaders have also joined the chorus with the Management and are saying, there is no proposal for VRS. We enclose herewith, the BSNL Management’s document uploaded on the official Intranet. We request everyone to read page no.32. We challenge ! Let anyone prove that this is not BSNL's official document !!