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STRIKENEWS IN "THE HINDU"
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Strike hits BSNL telephones
In Virudhunagar district
VIRUDHUNAGAR: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited landline and mobile phone services were affected in the district after its executives and non-executives commenced their three-day strike on Tuesday.
Local people said that though making local calls with the landline were possible, ‘zero' dialling service was not working.
Similarly, BSNL mobile phones conked off.
Majority of the executives and non-executives in the district participated in the strike protesting against attempts to disinvest the public sector telecom operator.
Expeditious rollout
They also wanted expeditious rollout of BSNL services, especially mobile services, without any delay in tendering process.
The unions were opposed to allowing private telecom operators using the copper cables of BSNL.
BSNL employees go on strike
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TIRUCHI:
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Members of various employees and officers unions of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) went on a three-day strike called by the Joint Action Council of BSNL All Officers and Employees Unions to press for their charter of demands, here on Wednesday.
The strike was called to protest the recommendations of the Sam Pitroda Committee and to press for various other demands. The committee has recommended 30 per cent divestment in BSNL .
A section of the striking employees staged a demonstration in the city to highlight their demands.
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Customer service centres at many places in district remained closed
on Wednesday.
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Kochi:
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Work at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offices under Ernakulam Secondary Switching Area (SSA) came to a standstill after employees of the public sector major embarked on a stir, as part of a nation-wide strike, under the joint strike council from 6 a.m. on Wednesday.
The strike will be in effect until 6 a.m. on Saturday.
Local convenor of the joint strike council P. Balan said that the strike, demanding rejection of Sam Pitroda Committee recommendations including implementation of a voluntary retirement scheme for a lakh employees of the company and a stake sale of 30 per cent besides absorption of ITS officers into BSNL, was complete as employees kept off work.
“All executive and non-executive staff participated in the strike,” he said.
A.P. Honeykumar, district convenor of the strike council, said that customer service centres at Kalady, Angamaly, Aluva, Paravur, Njarackal, Kalamassery, Thrikkakara, Palarivattom and Kavarathy remained closed on the first day of strike.
Call centres
Also brought to a halt was the functioning of the call centre at boat jetty, special service exchange, revenue accounts wing at Catholic Centre and Thodupuzha and the main telephone exchanges at Palarivattom and Panampilly Nagar. Cable and telephone line maintenance work was affected. The employees on strike also took out demonstrations at BSNL Bhavan, Catholic Centre, Boat Jetty telephone Exchange, Kalamassery, Palarivattom, Aluva, Paravur, Muvattupuzha, Thodupuzha, Perumbavur, Kothamangalam, Kolancherry and Panampilly Nagar.
Counterclaim
While the strike council in a media release claimed that only the Principal General Manager (PGM) and the General Managers were present in office on Wednesday, E.M. Abraham, PGM, said that the stir had not affected work. “Roughly about 50 per cent of the employees attended office on the first day of strike,” he said.
BSNL employees begin strike
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Employees demand settlement of Indian Telecom Service absorption issue, among others
BSNL services largely remain uninterrupted despite strike
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GULBARGA: The executive and non-executive employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) began their three-day strike from 6 a.m. on Wednesday, demanding, among other things, settlement of the Indian Telecom Service absorption issue pending for long.
Memorandum
The employees affiliated to the Joint Action Committee of Associations/Unions of BSNL Executives and Non-Executives staged a demonstration in front of the office of the General Manager of BSNL in Gulbarga and also submitted a memorandum.
The other demands include: the management should not resort to retrenchment or offer voluntary retirement to the employees; the Government should not resort to disinvestment in BSNL and give up the move to privatise the company; and the management should not outsource the services offered by the firm.
BSNL services largely remained uninterrupted despite the total strike by its employees on Wednesday, except a few reports of disruption of service and non-attendance to complaints.
According to reports, the strike in Yadgir district was also complete.
Three-day BSNL staff stir begins
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KRISHNAGIRI:
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The three-day strike announced by the various unions of the BSNL employees and executives began on Wednesday.
The agitation was to urge the government to accept their 12-point charter of demands including repayment of 3G Spectrum licence fee as the government was yet to collect the licence fee from any other private operators in the country.
Not affected
However, the services were not affected in any part of the Dharmapuri Telecom Circle, which includes Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri revenue districts.
S. Alagirisamy, Telecom District Secretary of the BSNL Employees Union, told ‘The Hindu' that the strike was total in the district.
He said all the seven unions affiliated to various political parties participated in the strike.
All the three main telephone exchanges viz Krishnagiri, Hosur and Dharmapuri and other exchanges in Uthangarai, Harur, Pennagaram, Palacode and Denkanikottai remained closed on Wednesday
BSNL staff stir from today
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KOLLAM: Officers and employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) will go on a three-day nation-wide strike from Wednesday, pressing their various demands. C. Muraleedharan, convener of the joint action committee for the strike, said more than 15,000 officers and employees would join the strike in Kerala.
Mr. Muraleedharan said the strike could seriously hit all BSNL services on the second and third days. The joint action committee is the umbrella organisation for seven unions of the BSNL officers and employees. They are the BSNLEU, NUBSNL, NFTE, TEPU, BSNLMS, SNEA and the AIBSNLEA.
A charter of eleven demands has been placed before the government. The demands included dropping moves to divest BSNL, withdrawal of voluntary retirement scheme and return of Rs.18,500 crore given to the government
"NEWS THE HINDU"
