Abhijit Banerjee, who has been conferred with the Noble Prize for economics, has questioned the recent step taken by the Narendra Modi government, to cut down the corporate tax from 30% to 22% and 15%. He has told that the concession given to the big corporates, through the cut in the corporate tax, is a huge burden on...

JTO LICE under 50% quota was held on 26.05.2019. Despite repeated insistence by the Union, results of this exam are not yet declared. BSNLEU has written to the Director (HR), demanding to sort out the problem involved at the earliest, and to ensure that the results are declared without further delay. View letter...

BSNLEU has already written to the GM(Restg.), BSNL CO., opposing the latest guidelines of the Restructuring Branch of the Corporate Office, stating that the Non-Executives could be transferred out of the SSA. BSNLEU has once again written to the Director (HR), demanding to keep the guidelines of the Restructuring Branc...

The working class and the progressive forces have always been saying that, the attacks launched by the US imperialism, on the countries of the Middle East, viz., Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., are done only with the aim of capturing the oil resources of the Middle East region. Now, the US President, Donald Trump, hims...

Going back from it’s promise of providing unlimited free talks time, a few days back, Reliance Jio has announced that it will charge outgoing calls to the networks of other operators, at the rate of 6 paisa per minutes. This is nothing but the starting of a new trend, wherein tariffs are likely to be increased. F...

The Corporate Office has issued revised guidelines for running the Business Areas. Therein, it is stated that SSAs are merged and that Non-Executives can be transferred out of the SSA. No consultation has been held with the Recognised Unions, before issuing such a letter, having far reaching consequences.  BSNLEU ...

The DoT vide it’s letter dated 14.10.2019 has appointed Shri Arvind Vadnerkar as the Director (HR) of BSNL. According to this letter, he has taken over charge as the Director (HR) of BSNL from the A/N of 14.10.2019. BSNLEU heartily welcomes Shri Arvind Vadnerkar. We hope that, under his stewardship, the HR issues...

Following the decision of the Management to pay the salary on 23.10.2019, and also based on the appeal of the CMD BSNL and the Director (HR), the hunger strike scheduled on 18.10.2019, has been postponed. However, on the issue of BSNL’s revival and also on other important issues, it has been decided that the AUAB...

The Commerce Minister, Piyush Goyal, has thundered that the government is probing the predatory pricing of Amazon and Flipkart and that, appropriate action would be taken on violation if any. Piyush Goyal has added that, his ministry has received complaints from CAIT, a traders’ body. Well and good. However, when...

India is ranked 102, out of the 117 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2019. It is a matter of shame that our neighbouring countries, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh are all placed above India, in the Global Hunger Index 2019.  In 2000, India was ranked 83 out of the 113 countries. [Source: The Hindu dated 17....

The BJP and it’s leaders, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are making a high pitched campaign about the removal of the Article 370 of the Constitution, in the ongoing election campaign for the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections. However, the Economic Times dated 18.10.2019, has reported that th...

The AUAB is seriously taking up the issues of non-payment of wages to the contract workers for the past 8 months, as well as their large scale retrenchment. This is because due to the above mentioned problems, the maintenance of BSNL’s services at the field level are severely affected and thereby the Company&rsqu...