Quoting the letter written to the Hon'ble Prime Minister, on the matter of Merger of BSNL with MTNL, the DoT has replied, that presently there is no proposal for merger of BSNL and MTNL.

A meeting is held at the Sanchar Bhawan today the 24.02.2018, between Shri Manoj Sinha, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications and the All Unions and Associations of BSNL. Together with the Minister, Secretary, DoT, Special Secretary, DoT, Joint Secretary (Admn.), DoT, OSD to the Hon’ble Minister, DDG (Estt.), DoT, CMD BSNL and Director (HR) BSNL were present. From the All Unions and Associations of BSNL, Com. P. Abhimanyu, GS, Com. Chandeswar Singh, GS, NFTE, Com. K. Sebastin, GS, SNEA, Com. Prahlad Rai, GS, AIBSNLEA, Com. K. Jayaprakash, GS, FNTO, Com. N.D. Ram, GS, SEWA BSNL, Com. Ravi Shil Verma, GS, AIGETOA, Com. Mallikarjuna, President, BSNL MS and Com. S.D. Sharma, GS, BSNL ATM, participated in the discussions. The representatives of the AUAB heartily thanked the Hon’ble Minister for taking out time to meet them. Detailed discussions took place on the memorandum submitted to the Hon’ble Minister, the details of which are as follows:-

Sanchar Bhawan March on 23.02.2018 at New Delhi conducted by AUAB. It was addressed by Com. Tapan Sen, GS,CITU. Com P. Abhimanyu, GS, BSNLEU, Com. C Singh, GS, NFTE, Com. Sebastian, GS, SNEA, Com. Prahlad Rai, GS, AIBSNLEA and other comrades addressed this rally and all of them said that the demands can be achieved by United Struggle.

In the meeting held with Ms.Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, DoT, yesterday, Com.P.Abhimanyu, GS, BSNLEU, urged upon her to immediately issue the necessary clearance to the BSNL Management, for starting negotiations for Wage Revision of the Non-Executives. The GS, BSNLEU, pointed out to the Secretary,DoT, that the DPE, in it's guidelines issued for the Wage Revision of the Non-Executives, has not laid down the condition of "Affordability". Further, he also brought to the notice of the Secretary, DoT, that the BSNL Management has already written to the DoT, seeking to issue clearance, for starting negotiations for Wage Revision of the Non-Executives, and that the DoT has not responded to it so far. The Secretary, DoT, assured to look into it, and to do the needful.

Today at Russa Telephone Exchange under South Area AUAB CTD GB meeting was held for work according to Rule Struggle. Comrade Sisir Roy CS BSNL EU Comrade Subhasis Mitra CS AIBSNLEA, Comrade Sekhar Majumdar, CS, NFTE, Comrade Atanu Majumdar, AIBSNLEA, Comrade Israfil Shaike BSNLEU, Comrade Sujit Chaudhary, NFTE and Comrade Tapan Ganguly, BSNLEU addressed the meeting.Common members of AUAB attended the meeting.

The final meeting of the Designations Committee was held on 26.09.2017, in which the new Designations of the left out Non-Executive cadres were finalised. However, while releasing the minutes of this meeting, the Management Side inserted a paragraph, wherein it is stated that the job description (duties and responsibilities) could also be changed, due to the change in designations. This was strongly protested by GS, BSNLEU, since such a condition was neither discussed in the meeting, nor accepted by the Staff Side. BSNLEU gave a complaint to the Director (HR), protesting the unfair practice of the Management. Consequent to this, a meeting of the Designations Committee is convened today. Com. P. Abhimanyu, GS and Com. Balbir Singh, President, participated. Com. John Verghese, AGS, was present as observer. Representatives of BSNLEU strongly objected to the manipulated draft minutes, released for the meeting held on 26.09.2017. Consequent to this, it was decided in today’s meeting, to release the minutes, by deleting the above stated paragraph. It is also decided in today’s meeting that, the Technician Grade II (Telecom Factory) is to be redesignated as Telecom Technician.