27/08/2011:WITHDRAWAL FACILITY FOR ONLINE EXAM OF MANDATORY TRAINING: BSNL has provided as a onetime measure, withdrawal option to officers who have for various on-line examinations to be held during September 2011 under Executive Promotion Policy. Click for letter>>>

LDCE EXAM: The Association met GM (Est.) for early conduction of LDCE examination from JTO to SDE (Telecom). It was informed that management will be shortly notifying the said examination. There is a likelihood of conducting the same postponed examination in the month of December 2011 or early January 11.

25/08/2011:REVIEW OF PERFORMANCES: The MOC has taken a serious note of the downgrading performances of all the senior officers and insisted for the replacement of the non-performers. Click for the letter>>>>

24/08/2011:FINANCIAL REPORT OF BSNL: The financial report for the month of June 2011, released by BSNL shows a net decrease of 9.72% of revenue in basic services and 17.88% decrease in cellular services. The ARPU for the basic services in 224.13 and for cellular services is 86.91 on month on month basis as compared to last year. Click for the report>>>>

22/08/2011:POLICY FOR POSTING OF EXECUTIVES COMING FROM OTHER SSA’s:   The Circle office has asked from SSAs for having prepared any policy ( in understanding with Associations) of posting any executive joined from other Tenure /non tenure SSA to be first posted in rural area, if it is so the same may please be intimated to Sr. GM (HR & Admin) MH Circle. Click for the copy>>>>

20/08/2011:STATUS OF VARIOUS COURT CASES: Case at Hon Chennai CAT regarding JTO to SDE promotion (fixation of seniority): The case came up today.  The applicant’s lawyer pleaded for extension of time for argument, but our lawyer and BSNL lawyer pleaded for immediate hearing of the case as sufficient time has already given to all the parties. Hon CAT accepting our plea posted the case for final arguments on 23.08.2011.

The case at Hon PCAT, New Delhi on eligibility of JTOs to appear in the LDCE dismissed in favour of BSNL. Judgement copy is awaited.

The review petition filed by SDEs of 147 comp quota regarding their seniority at Hon CAT, Ernakulum dismissed. Judgement copy is awaited.

19/08/2011:HUGE SUPPORT TO SHRI. ANNA HAZARE: A huge rally was organized yesterday in Pune from Rani Jhansi Chowk to Sarasbaug in support of Shri. Anna Hazare for JanLokpal bill, from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm. More than 50 thousand citizens participated in the rally. To support this noble cause, leaders and members of SNEA (I), Pune also participated in this rally.

17/08/2011:SALES AND MARKETING POLICY SIMPLIFIED: The corporate office has simplified the policy of sales and marketing and has allowed the spouse of working BSNL/DOT employees as direct selling agents, in order to increase the availability of BSNL products. It has also waived off the security deposit for enrollment of such DAS’s. Click for letter>>>>

NEW SCHEME FOR POST PAID BROADBAND CONNECTIONS: In order to tackle the shortage of broadband modems, a promotional offer has been introduced by the corporate office for new postpaid broadband bookings for the own modem customers. Installation charges have been waived off and additional 500 Mb free usages have been offered.

It is seen that there is serious shortage of modems in Pune, we hereby appeal to all the members and the concerned staff to encourage and educate the customers to go for own modems by introducing this offer. There are many vendors available in the markets that are selling the ADSL modems at BSNL rates. Also it is suggested that all the recovered modems may be used. All the list of faulty modems may be sent to DGM (NIB) for further procurements. Click for the new promotional plan>>>>

16/08/2011:CHQ NEWS: GS writes to Shri Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister of C & IT on blatant policy violation by Airtel - providing 3G services in Circles where it has no license - reminiscent of naked policy violation by RCOM in 2002-03- inaction by license enforcing authorities raises serious issue of connivance.  <<<<letter>>>

12/08/2011:APPLICABILITY OF PENSION RULES: The corporate office has issued the orders of applicability of pension rules to all the absorbed employees of BSNL as recommended by the 6^th CPC. Click for orders>>>>

CIRCLE WISE REVENUE FIGURES: The financial result of the 1st quarter has shown marginal profits as compared to last year, but still we have a long way to go.Click for the revenue figures>>>>

11/08/2011:EB TEAM EFFORTS YIELDS RESULTS: The constant and defined efforts have started yielding the results, thereby increasing the revenue growth on quarter to quarter basis compared last year. The revenue has increased from 598 Cr to 686 Cr in the 1^st quarter as compared to last year thus posting a net growth of 88 Cr, in CMTS vertical. The post paid revenue has grown from 39 Cr to 60 Cr with a growth of 53%, while prepaid revenue has increased from 96 Cr to 118 Cr with a growth of 22%.This figures were revealed by Shri. Yeshwant Singh, GM (F), after the meeting with the PGM (F). This revenue addition has come through the MKS plan, which was launched by EB Pune team, but unfortunately this was propagated as the loss making proposal by some of the miscreant. But now the revenue figures display the truth.

Shri. V. K. Mahendra, PGM (T), Pune & Shri. Yeshwant Singh, GM (F), appreciated the efforts of EB Team by presenting a beautiful bouquet to Mrs. Nagleela, GM (EB) Pune, Shri. J. N. Thorat, DGM (EB-Gold) and Shri. Hemant Borale DGM (EB-Platinum) for the splendid efforts. We again appreciate the efforts of all the EB team members, the marketing and the CSC staff across Maharashtra who whole heartedly worked and made it most successful plan.

This once again vindicates the stand of our association that MKS Plan is the most profitable one. It is also the lesson for the false propagators and the enemies of BSNL, who were instigating others to replicate so that the plan gets stopped, without going into the revenue details. It is the responsibility of all of us to see that such miscreants, who do not think of growth of BSNL and are the puppets of private operators, should be identified and thrown out of the system. We once again demand that the MKS plan should be reopened. Now this is the voice of entire Maharashtra.

10/08/2011:NEW TARIFF BOOK OF CFA SERVICES: The marketing section has published the latest tariff book for CFA services. It includes the tariff for the web hosting and web- collocation services, recently launched by BSNL. The book is very informative for all the executives. Click for the copy >>>>>

AGM WISE WORKLOAD: The OP section has issued the statement of working lines against each  AGM posted in the field in Pune SSA. Click for the statement>>>>

09/08/2011:IN MNP RACE BSNL, MTNL LOSE 6.5L SUBSCRIBERS: After implementation of mobile number portability (MNP), the number of BSNL subscribers as on June 30, 2011, who have switched over to other operators stood at 9.33 lakh. The subscribers who have switched over from other service providers and came to BSNL stood at 3.49 lakh, resulting in net out go of 5,84,261 customers, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha. Similarly, MTNL subscribers, who have switched over to other operators at the same period stood at 67,198 and users who have moved in stood at 11,593, resulting in net out go of 55,605 subscribers, he said.

06/08/2011:NEW STAFFING NORMS: The corporate office has issued the new staffing norms for circulations and has called for the observations and data from circles. Click for the letter>>> Click for staffing norms>>>

TIME BOUND PROMOTION TO JTOS/JAOS AFTER COMPLETION OF 4 YEARS:  BSNL corporate office issued clarification that all those JTOs/JAO who had crossed their next pay scale i.e of SDE/AO after implementation of 2^nd PRC on 01-01-2007 after completion of 4 years may be considered for promotion immediately after completion of 4years and CRs/SRs may be called for the period of last 4 years only instead of usual 5 years period, JTOs/JAOs already promoted after 01-01-2007 on the basis of earlier pay scales may also be given benefit of this new order and accordingly all such JTOS/JAO who had been previously given first time bound promotion after 01-01-2007 after completion of 6 years, their date of Increment and date of promotion will be changed as per their benefit, Payment of arrears will be made and now onwards all JTOs/JAOs can be given first time bound promotion after completion of 4 years period only. Click for the copy>>>

02/08/2011:PREPAID CUG PLANS OF MH CIRCLE: There are about 69 CUG plans working in MH circle, out of which only 7 plans customers above 1000 in the plan. Mahakrishi is the only plan which has more than 2 lakh active connections. It is very interesting to note that more than 95% of the total revenue in the prepaid CUG segment is generated by the Mahakrishi plan, but still closed on the fictitious reasons, without bothering for the revenue generations. Tough the highest revenue is generated, but it is badly criticized of poor performance and loss making proposal. Will the decision makers still learn the lessons and rethink to start it????? Click for the report>>>>>

01/08/2011:SNEA OFFICE BEARER MAKES IT POSSIBLE: We are proud to announce that our Area Secretary (East) Com. Satish Alandkar, SDE, Yerawada, has set an example of excellent performance by attending the 1200 pair cables in 3 Kms length across the duct and rejoined about 10 joints. About 780 pairs were retrieved, six pillars made feasible, 110 new connections, 35 broadband connections were provided. Almost all the noisy pairs were set right and now the BSNL customers are enjoying fault free services. We appreciate the efforts of Com. Satish Alandkar, SDE and his team who has done a very job in improving the services and set an example before all of us. Click for the report>>>>

MARKETING OF LAND LINES: Our active member of SNEA Com. V.D. Patki, SDE, writes his experiences about the land line and steps to be taken for the marketing of the lines. He explains the importance of land lines phones over the mobile phones, the steps to be taken by the external staff to improve the services and the importance of landline connections. A must read letter for all the concerned officials of BSNL. Click for the letter>>>