Annamalai (1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Annamalai (as Rajnikanth). Kushboo Radha Ravi. Ashok's Father. Janagaraj Vinuchakravarthy. (as Vinu Chakravarthy). Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Karan.

Annamalai அண்ணாமலை Genre Soap opera Created by Written by C. Baskar (Story) Babu Yogeswaran (Screenplay) Babu Yogeswaran (Dialogues) Directed by C. Baskar Sundar K.

Vijayan Creative director(s) Starring Theme music composer (Title Song) Kiran (Background Score) Opening theme 'Uyirgal Pirappathu' (Vocals) (Lyrics) Country of origin India Original language(s) No. Of seasons 3 No. Of episodes 757 Production Producer(s) Cinematography Camera setup Running time approx. 20-22 minutes per episode Production company(s) Release Original network Original release 11 February 2002 ( 2002-02-11) – 21 January 2005 ( 2005-01-21) This article contains.

Without proper, you may see, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tamil script. Annamalai is a 2002 -language family soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on from 21 February 2002 to 21 January 2005 at 9:30PM for 757 episodes. The show starred,,,,,,,,,,, and among others, produced by and is directed by C.J. Bhaskar and Sundar K. • as Thavasi • as Annamalai • as Annamalai (first few episodes) • as Ulaganathan • as Ulaganathan (first few episodes) • as Gandhimadhi • as Thavasi's wife • as Shanthi • as Gomathi Nayagam • as Patalathar • as Anbhazhagan • / as Nallasivam • as Visalam (Thavasi Wife) • as Suriya • as Valli • as Anwar • Bhanuprakash • • Arun Nepal as Thavasi's son • Karthikeyan • • Nagesh Krishnamoorthi • Sairam • Polachchi Babu • Mali • Raviraj • Kicha • Janaki • K.

: Brief review of Two days Strike in Chennai Telephones on: After a month today visited Union office and met comrades. Discussed the two days Strike and its aftermath.

Three comrades ( G. Mahendran/Chengalpet, K.R.Dhandapani / Avadi, G.Hari/Avadi)handed over donations to the Circle Union totally Rs.33,500/- to Comrade CKM. We thank all three comrades for their generous contribution to our Circle Union. In the end it was decided to organise a grand meeting in Flower Bazaar exchange compound on to pay homage to Comrade O.P.Gupta on his fifth death anniversary. : What is to be done.?: The Leadership of All Unions and Associations of BSNL is going to meet on in Newdelhi to take stock of the situation after the two days nationwide success Strike and also to plan the next course of action to get our demands including the third pay revision settled at the earliest. In this regard I wish to share my view/ opinion after number of comrades spoke to me.

1.Although every one is happy at the huge success of the strike and the unity maintained so far by All Unions and Associations, they are also worried at the insulting attitude of the BSNL management which ignored our strike with impunity. Negotiations on our strike demands were not there before or during our agitation.

Really this fact is troubling too much our Comrades. They feel genuinely that we have reached a dead end. 2.After two days historic and united strike the Leadership should not think about any other action except announcing the date for indefinite strike as the Leadership already mentioned in the strike notice signed and served. No question of Parliament march or Sanchar Bhavan march after two days Strike. We need to go forward Only and not going back to Marches or Dharna once again. Here after we had to face the Do or Die situation. The Leadership should not dilute the struggle by deciding upon Parliament march/Sanchar Bhavan march which will be a big joke after our successful strike on 12 /13 December-2017.

3.In the future struggle the Leadership should include demands like Five years periodicity for Pay revision and revision of allowances which are not revised to our employees/ Executives since 2007. We can't accept the stand of the management that only Pay will be revised (If Third Pay revision is implemented) and no revision of allowances. 4.When ITS officers are given hefty pay revision from and recently granted promotional benefits ( beginning from Rs.

1,80,000 basic pay) we can't accept the reasoning of bad financial position of BSNL attributed by the management to refuse implementation of Third Pay Revision and revised of allowances to the employees/ executives. We should protest this discrimination and partiality practiced by the BSNL management.

5.Unions/Associations should not accept the concept of the management that only if BSNL earns profit Pay Revision, Bonus etc will be paid to the employees. The Loss making Postal department and many other central government departments are not denied Pay revision or Bonus by the Government of India. Likewise BSNL being a 100% Government company should be treated as any other government concern. BSNL implements the decisions of the Government of India even there is no profit. BSNL is a unique PSU wherein its employees/ Executives are getting Government Pension from Consolidated Fund of India like any other Central Government employees in the country.

General Provident Fund maintained by the Finance ministry is extended only to BSNL among 240 Central PSUs. Hence considering BSNL as a Government company for pay revision and Bonus is justified. We should demand it. We hope our views are taken seriously by the Leadership as we only reflect the opinion of base level workers who made the two days Strike a huge Success.

Any going back or dilution of our agitational mood will not be in the interest of our future. : I T S officers do not mind affordability?: It is a big shame! In BSNL while the employees/ executives doing the actual field work are denied Pay revision on the wrong notion of affordability of BSNL financial position, the ITS officers who have not opted to BSNL but working in BSNL with out any responsibility or accountability have already got their hefty pay revision on account of Seventh Pay Commission recommendations for the Central Government employees with effect from. BSNL only pay their salaries and allowances from its fund although they are Central Government employees and not employees of BSNL. How come BSNL company which is not on profit for the past several years afford to pay such a heavy amount for hundreds of ITS officers while refusing the pay revision for its own employees/ executives. We should not allow this discrimination any more. If BSNL is not affordable to effect Pay revision to its employees/ executives then it shouldn't effect pay revision to ITS officers working in BSNL.

We should call this bluff of the management and the government of India. : Impact.?: While we all are happy about the huge success of our two days Strike it is also necessary to ponder over the impact of that strike on the management/ government.

It is very sad to note that not even discussion/ negotiations were initiated by the management/ DOT prior to our strike or during the strike. The management had just ignored the strike and behaved as if nothing unusual happened. So what is our next step to force the hands of the management/ government? It is pertinent to point out that our Chennai Telephones circle union always suggested a United indefinite strike by All Unions and Associations so that settlement on our demands is possible. Had we gave a call for indefinite strike instead of Two days Strike like OPG's tactics during pension strike in 2000 September the hands of both Management/ Government would have been forced to negotiate with the unions and find out a acceptable solution. But now nothing has happened.

Despite the show of complete unity by unions in this strike the outcome is zero. Naturally we are worried and sad. But how come the unions in Coal Sector under the same government could get a 20% pay hike to their employees that too with five years periodicity although the cabinet of the central government has approved only 15% pay revision to the employees of Central PSUs. There is something lacking in our approach/ attitude in comparison with the attitude of Coal Sector Unions.

We should collectively put our minds to come out of this tight situation. I hope the leadership of Unions/ Associations will discuss all these points in their next meeting as time is running out and thousands of our employees are retiring/ retired every month with out the pay revision since 2007. : Circle Union journal is under print: Circle Union journal is under print. It will be distributed to the members through branch Unions on at the next General Council Meeting.6th January 2018 being the fifth death anniversary of our great leader O.P.Gupta the General Council will pay rich tributes to our leader OPG. Hence all are requested to mobilise our members in full strength for this meeting.

In view of the special occasion this time our General Council Meeting will be held in Flower Bazaar exchange compound in the afternoon. : Make the Two days nation wide Strike a huge Success everywhere: The All Unions & Associations of BSNL has called for two days Strike throughout the country on 12/13 December 2017 in which lakhs of employees and executives will actively participate mainly to compel the Government/ Management to effect Third Pay revision from and withdraw the ill advised decision for the formation of a separate tower Company for the nearly 66000 mobile towers. Although the Unions/ Associations for a very long time persuaded both the government and management on their justified demands by holding peaceful rallies/ demonstrations/ Human Chain programmes for the past several months besides demanding exception clause for the pay revision as was done by the past / last PRCs the appeals of the Workers have fallen on the deaf ears of Modi government which is happily writing off the huge loans defaulted by Big Corporates. Its insistence of the conditionality of earning continued profits for the past three years is actually a ruse to deny us the justified pay revision and pension revision.

Trade union movement shall not allow the evil design to succeed. This time very effective coordination and active preparations have already been taken place which will ensure 100% success of the two days Strike in the whole of the country and particularly in Chennai Telephones circle. The last minute appeal of the Administration/ Management to withdraw the strike decision is ritual with out any positive action on the demands raised by the BSNL unions and associations.

Hence we need to make the Strike action a huge Success so that at least after our Strike both the government and Management take positive decision on all our demands. I greet all our employees and executives on the eve of the historic strike. : Congratulations to Comrade Amarjit Kaur: At Ranchi (Bihar) in the General Council Meeting of the AITUC being held from 09-12-17 yesterday Comrade Amarjit was elected to the post of General Secretary in place of Com.Gurudoss, who relinquished the post due to old age. We greet Comrade Amarjit Kaur all Success in her new responsibility on behalf of both NFTCL and NFTE. It is noteworthy to mention here that this is the first time that a national trade union has elected a woman comrade as its General Secretary.

She is also a very senior leader of Communist Party of India and is one of its National Secretaries. We personally knew her capacity and hardworking nature in Organising the working people of our country particularly the Anganwadi workers. It is to be noted that She has addressed NFTE National Executive Committee meeting held in Kozhikode ( Kerala) few months ago. We wish her able leadership will further strengthen the country's first trade union AITUC.

: Let us remember Dr.B.R.Ambedkar on: On this day in 1956 this great visionary and the leader of the India's oppressed and depressed people breathed his last. He had to convert to Buddhism in the evening of his life only to renounce the Hindu religion which justified the caste system and oppression of people of lower castes.

His biggest contribution is our Constitution and the policy of reservations. Let us pay our respectful homage to this great fighter and able leader on this day. : Disgraceful: Modi has proved once again he is indecent and uncultured. As a gentleman and a responsible Prime Minister he should have congratulated the new President of Congress party Rahul Gandhi on assuming the post. But expecting such decent and cultured behaviour from Modi is asking for the moon. During his three years of PM he has degraded the highest post he is holding at present by attacking the opposition leaders in a very bad and loose language.

He has failed to implement even a single election promise so far. But it didn't stop his wide and loud mouthed criticism of leaders of opposition parties. Now also he is using a thing that was not spoken by Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar to dub Congress and Rahul. Actually Mani Shankar spoke about the difference between Dynasty and Democratic politics. But as usual the Facist mind set of BJP/ RSS twisted the facts and abused Rahul as Aurangazheeb, the mogul emperor. Modi didn't know the history of Moguls in India that is why he chose to falsely equate Rahul to Aurangazeeb. First Rahul not jailed or Killed his father/ brother to become the Emperor as Aurangazeeb.

Rahul is in Politics for the last 14 years and two times MP elected by the people of Amethi constituency as Modi was elected from Varanasi. Rahul has not usurped the top post of the party like Modi who sidelined all senior leaders like Advani/ Joshi/ Arun Shourie/ Yashwant Sinha etc.to claim the PM post. Rahul climbed the ladder to the top gradually and very hesitantly. He is unlike Modi a power monger or self promoting individual. Only out of frustration and anger Modi compared very wrongly Rahul with Aurangazeeb who ruled the country for 50 long years of course. We welcome the new Congress President Rahul and wish him every success in his job.

Hope he will never forget his responsibility of defending the country's pluralism and Secularism which is now under severe attack by Hindutva forces. He should stand with the poor people/ working people of this country and not with the Corporates. : Decisions taken by the Secretariat of the Circle Union at its meeting held on: The Secretariat meeting was presided over by Comrade M.K. Ramasamy, Circle President. Comrade L.Subbaroyan, Tamilnadu Circle Union Treasurer participated in the meeting as a special guest. The meeting took the following decisions: 1.To mobilise employees and workers for the Centenary Celebrations of the Great Russian revolution on 17-11-17 at Raja Annamalai Mandram.

Special casual leave could be availed for attending this function on. 2.To mobilise our employees for Human Chain programme as per the decision of All Unions and Associations of BSNL.

The Human Chain will be formed on both sides of Dams Road (Opposite to Anna Road ) on from 3 pm to 6 pm.It also decided to campaign extensively for the Success of Two days Strike in December (12/13). 3.As Comrade CKM is going abroad, Circle Secretary is granted one month leave from to. Elangovan, ACS will be officiating as the Circle Secretary. 4.It congratulated the central trade unions for holding three days massive demonstration in front of the Parliament to press the demands of the working people. The meeting was self critical about the low number of participation by BSNL Trade Unions.

It decided to join in the Fill the Jail programme as per the decision of Central Trade Unions in the month of January 2018. 5.64th Federation Day of NFPTE will be observed on in Flower Bazaar exchange compound at 3 pm. Comrade L.Subbaroyan, Asst.GS/NFTCL will be the Chief Speaker. : Media Blackout?: Today is the third and final day of 3 days Demonstration in Delhi's Parliament Street which began on. This was a United agitation against the government of India and its pro-rich and anti-people policies. Except BJP led BMS almost all the central trade unions are taking part in this including several independent Federations / Unions in Bank sector and BSNL. Every day nearly 50 to 60 thousand workers gathered and raised their voice against the wrong economic policies of Modi government which affected the common people.

But strangely not a single photo/ news is so far printed in any newspaper published from Delhi. The print and visual media is closing its eyes may be under the orders of its corporate management which is fully backing the present central government. Free Press and Media Freedom are at danger now. May be this is the way Facist forces control the minds of the people as a whole? One thing is clear. During UPA government period INTUC union which is being led by Congress stood in the forefront of Trade Union Struggles against Dr. Manmohan Singh Government.

But now BMS has betrayed the cause of the working people at the alter of Political affinity. This black mark on BMS will never get erased. : Very Hectic Day indeed today!: We could meet today (10-11-17) the Additional Chief Labour Commissioner, Dy.CLC and The Hon'ble MOS for Labour & Employment in connection with few important issues regarding Contract Labourers. We registered our complaint on the management of BSNL for issuing directives to all the Heads of Telecom Circles (CGMs) not to have any discussion on the problems of Contract Labourers with any unions including the recognised unions vide its ill conceived letter dated, which was in total violation of the Indian Trade Union act,1926. We could not meet the MOC as he was preoccupied with elections in Gujarat and hence handed over the memorandum to his office in Sanchar Bhavan.

As we have knocked all the doors to revoke the said arbitrary order and to change the unhelpful attitude of the Management in BSNL we hope something will happen for the benefit of the most exploited Contract Labourers in BSNL. Letters were submitted to 1)Minister for Communications 2)Minister of state for Labour (Independent charge)and 3)Chief Labour of Commissioner (Central). : Three days Massive demonstration of workers begun: On at the call of centraltrade unions the massive demonstration of workers began near Parliament in NewDelhi. On the first day Tamil Nadu& Kerala state workers were mobilized apart from BSNL, Defence Federations. Nearly 300 comrades of NFTE took part in this demonstration from Chennai Telephones, Tamil Nadu, Maharastra, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, UP(West), Jharkahand, Haryana etc. On the whole more than 50000 assembled for today's demonstration. : Secretariat meeting of the NFTE Circle Union on 13-11-17: The meeting of the Circle Union Secretariat will be held on ( Monday) at 10 am in Circle Union office at Flower Bazaar exchange compound.

Comrade MKR will preside over the meeting and the following shall be the agenda points: 1. Review of Programmes ( Obtaining signature from MPs, Submission of Memorandum to the Governor on 15-11-17 & HumanChain on 16-11-17) announced by All Unions and All Associations of BSNL. Preparations for the successful conductance of the Centenary Celebrations of the Great Russian revolution on 17-11-17 in Chennai Raja Annamalai Mandram 3.

Review of Central TUs three days Demonstration in front of Parliament from 09-11-17. All the 15 members of the Secretariat are requested to attend the meeting in time and without fail. : CSCs outsourcing issue discussed with Dir(CFA): Reached New Delhi at 3 pm. Went straight to CHQ of NFTE. Met the President, General Secretary and other Secretaries (CHQ).

I was happy to know that today our leaders met the Director (CFA) and strongly protested against the outsourcing of CSCs. Chasing Pavements Karaoke Mp3 Download more. NFTE demanded new recruitment of staff if the situation warranted. The Director (CFA) assured our Union to reconsider the decision and prepared to cancel the tender floated in June/2017 for this purpose. We hope the management will honour its assurances given to our Union leaders today. : Black Day today,the 08/11: Modi government failed either to bring out the Black money or abolish the circulation of fake currency through its ill advised decision to Demonetise Rs.1000/500 notes last year on this date. It is only a political propaganda by BJP and no gain for India's economy in any manner. Crores of poor people lost their livelihood and faced difficulties to get their cash from banks while Black money was allowed to be converted in to white quietly.

It is a organised loot and legalised plunder of the common man by BJP government. : Let us remember the historic Russian revolution of 1917: On seventh November in 1917 Comrade Lenin successfully established the first Workers State in Russia through the Socialist revolution. It immediately ended the exploitation of Workers/ Peasants/ Women. Russian revolution gave immense hope for all those freedom fighters who were fighting for their country's Independence world wide. Comrade Lenin was a genius and a faithful follower of Karl Marx. Throughout his political career he waged fight against the wrong tactics of extreme left and right's compromise with the rich and powerful imperialists.Enriching the Marxist ideology he only explained the Imperialism as the highest form of Capitalism. He was very firm that always the reason and motive for wars are the fierce competition among the capitalists countries to capture newer markets.

Hence he strongly advocated anti- war approach and in fact withdrew Russia from the war with Germany in the First World War immediately after he assumed power in the Russia. Although that Revolution was betrayed by few leaders who misused their position and power to curb democracy and human rights, it will continue to inspire people. Deviations from the Marxist and Leninists principles resulted in the abrupt end of that great Revolution in 1991 after serving the humanity for 74 long years. Let us not forget the sacrifices of those Communists for the sake of our Working class. : Thoughts for the day!: 1. A good cartoon has appeared in today's The Hindu daily about the attitude of Modi government in handling the GST. Blind people describing the Elephant as per their wishes.

BJP leader and MP Shatrughan Sinha of Bihar has commented the present situation in the government and his party as' a one man show and two man army '. This description very aptly tells the present situation. He also expressed that Gujarat and Himachal Elections will not be easy as youths, farmers and traders are all dissatisfied lot today in the country. The BJP president Amit Shah has commented yesterday that people from Amethi ( The Loksabha constituency in UP represented by Rahul Gandhi) are migrating to Gujarat in search of employment.

It seems he has forgotten UP is presently ruled by BJP. The State of Utter Pradesh was not under Congress government for the last several decades. He also forgotten a fact that from the BJP ruled states like Bihar, Assam, UP, MP people are migrating to southern states particularly Karnataka ruled by Congress and Kerala ruled by Left parties. Karnataka is the number one state by bagging investment intentions worth 1,47, 625 crores of rupees where as the State of Gujarat could get only 65, 741 crores of rupees. In the year 2016 also Karnataka State stood first. So which state is actually for so called Development? Karnataka model or Gujarat model people will choose?

: Andhra Pradesh State NFTCL Conference in Nellore on: Thousands of Telecom Contract Labourers from all the 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh are very enthusiastically getting ready to participate in the state conference of NFTCL at Nellore on which will be addressed by our National President Ashaq Ahamed, General Secretary CKM, National vice- President Ashok Raj, Assistant General Secretary Subbaroyan and Tamilnadu State Secretary Anandan, State President Babu and others. The venue of the conference is Town Hall, Nellore. Comrades Jeelani and Peera are making all out efforts to make this conference a huge success and a memorable one. We wish this conference every success and hope it will be a turning point in the history of Telecom Contract Labourers of our country. : NFTE Objects the wrong attitude of BSNLEU: At the last meeting held on 16-10-17 the All Unions & Associations of BSNL in the NFTE Circle Union office it was unanimously decided to contact the General Secretary of SEWA- BSNL Comrade N.D. Ram to decide upon the representative of that association as two comrades claimed the same in Chennai Telephones Circle. But today ( 01-11-17) for the second meeting of All Unions & Associations of BSNL in total violation of earlier decision the Circle Secretary of BSNLEU invited a comrade on behalf of SEWA-BSNL who was in fact not even a member of SEWA-BSNL.

We insisted on behalf of NFTE-BSNL that to maintain unity we can get necessary clarifications from the concerned General Secretary before deciding on the issue of representative from SEWA-BSNL. But BSNLEU was hell bent on making the All Unions & Associations of BSNL as one more Forum under its Hegemony. We are for unity and United Struggles. But in the name of unity if BSNLEU tries to weaken the alliance Unions/ Associations of NFTE we shall not permit this. : Farewell meeting in Thiruvallur: On 30-10-17 to felicitate Comrades Murugesan, T.T(Vice-President, State NFTCL/ Tamilnadu) and Ramakrishnan, JE( Branch Org. Secretary/ NFTE) a grand farewell was organised. Both are retiring on 31-10-17 after 35 years of service both in DOT and BSNL.

Comrades CKM, Bose, Elangoven, Rajendran, Danapal, Venkatesan, Ragunathan, Janakiraman, Mahendran and many other leaders of both NFTE and NFTCL greeted the retiring comrades for their good service to the company and Union. Our Circle Union greets both comrades a very happy retired life. : New Branch Union of NFTCL opened at Madhavaram on 28-10-17: 47 Telecom Contract Labourers have organised a branch union at Madhavaram under Thiruvallur District. The formation Meeting began with flag hoisting by Comrade CKM and was presided over by Comrade Dhanapal. NFTCL District Secretary Janakiraman welcomed all participants. State President of NFTCL/ Tamilnadu V. Babu inaugurated the meeting.

Several NFTCL State office bearers and NFTE leaders took part in the meeting.Comrades Devendran and Chittibabu were unanimously elected as branch President and Secretary. : Purposeful meeting of NFTCL District Union Executive on 27-10-17 in CBT: At Cheran Palace in Coimbatore today the District Executive Committee meeting of NFTCL was held. Telecom Contract Labourers took part in the meeting in detail expressed their problems and requested for early solutions to their problems. The District Secretary Comrade S.Kottiappan, JAO ( officiating) explained the action taken on the issues raised by the Contract Labourers. NFTCL Assistant General Secretary L. Subbaroyan and General Secretary C.K.Mathivanan spoke on the challenges being faced by the working people of our country and in particular Contract Labourers in all sectors including Telecommunications.

District office bearers of NFTCL very enthusiastically participated in the meeting. : Appeal to the General Secretaries of All Unions and Associations of BSNL: The extended Circle Executive meeting of the NFTE-BSNL in Chennai Telephones held on 23-10-17 appealed to all the Unions and Associations of BSNL to include the following important demand urgently in the agitation proposed against the government/ management vide letter dated 11-10-17 addressed to DOT/BSNL. The management has floated a tender in June/ 2017 to hand over 3000 Customer Service Centres of BSNL located all over the country in Prime locations along with the works of Booking of complaints and Clearance of faults to private agencies on the plea of lack of manpower due to heavy retirement over the years. This is an attempt to hand over these CSCs indirectly to a private Telecom company which is very close to the BJP.

It is a fact that already a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between DOT and Reliance Jio company to sell the later products. Hence it is all the more important to demand scrapping of this dubious tender process and instead begins recruitment of new manpower in BSNL to cope up with the problem of acute shortage of staff. It is surprising to note that this particular demand was not included in the notice submitted to DOT/ BSNL on 11-10-17.

It is requested that even at this stage this important demand could be incorporated in to the notice already submitted in connection with our Two days strike on 12/13 th of December-2017. Hope the leadership of All Unions and Associations will accept our request/ appeal in view of the grave dangers in this attempt of the management. : Meeting with PGM (Development) on: The NFTE Circle Union today met the PGM (D) along with DGM(Planning) in Kushkumar Road office. Our comrades CKM, Elangoven and Ravi discussed all the pending cases of allotment of quarters to the long wait listed officials, favourable Consideration of all request for higher type requests and the acute shortage of water supply in the quarter complexes and the need to dig new and additional bore wells to minimise the water problem especially in staff quarter complexes. Our representatives also insisted that the additional EB deposit paid by the employees either be reimbursed to them as before the implementation of ERP systems or directly be paid by the management as such deposits are accounted on the EB service connections only. When the officials vacate their quarters they may lose these amount if not reimbursed as and when it was paid to the Electricity authorities.

Malini and Mr. Pandian have assured us to consider all the points positively at the earliest. We also intimated the illegal occupancy of BSNL quarters by outsiders in large numbers particularly in Anna Nagar and Perambur quarters. : Secretariat meeting on 28-10-17: The meeting of the Circle Union Secretariat of NFTE will be on 28-10-17 (Saturday) at 11 am in the Circle Union office at Flower Bazaar exchange.

The following shall be the agenda: 1.Redeployment of staff proposed by the management- meeting with Sr. GM( HR) on 02-11-17. 2.District Conferences to be held in Districts where two years completed after the last conference.

Com.M.K.Ramasamy, Circle President will preside over the meeting. All the 15 members of the Secretariat are requested to attend the meeting in time. : Big Thanks to Comrade R.Arumugam, D/Man grade_I: Today comrade Arumugam came to our NFTE union office and handed over rupees twenty four thousand (Rs.24000/-) towards donation to Circle Union to Comrade C. Ravi, Circle Union Treasurer for settling the long pending pay fixation of Draughts man cadre. He received recently rupees five lakh and twenty five thousand as arrears on account of our efforts. We thank him for his timely help and decided to meet this month's expenses on our union journal Sanga Muzhakkam.

We hope the remaining 14 Draughts man comrades who also benefited by the said pay fixation will emulate the generosity of Comrade R.Arumugam. : All Unions & Associations of BSNL in Chennai Telephones met today: All Unions & Associations of BSNL in Chennai Telephones met today () at NFTE Union office in Flower Bazaar exchange. This meeting reviewed the lunch hour demonstration held today at CGM 'S office.

Further it has planned for the next phase of agitation on 15-11-17 and 16-11-17. On 15-11-17 it was planned to meet and submit the memorandum to all MPs available in Chennai apart from meeting the Governor of Tamilnadu for submission of our memorandum. On it was decided to hold a human chain in Dams Road in front of Anna Road exchange.

It was also decided to print pamphlets and posters for the Human chain programme. Next meeting of AUA of BSNL will be held at BSNLEU union office in Flower Bazaar exchange on 01-11-17 at 3 pm. : Enthusiastic Demonstration by BSNL employees/ executives on 16-10-17: At the call of National level ' All Unions and Associations in BSNL ' today a massive lunch hour demonstration was conducted at CGM's office of Chennai Telephones in Purasawalkam under the presidentship of Comrade CKM. The Circle Secretaries of BSNLEU, AIBSNLEA, FNTO along with representative of SNEA spoke at the meeting held after the demonstration. The General Secretary of TEPU delivered a good speech on our demands including immediate implementation of Third Pay revision and dropping the cabinet decision on formation of Separate tower company for the 66000 mobile towers in BSNL.

: Book Release function on: My new book on the Great Russian Revolution will be released in connection with the centenary year of (1917-2017) the said Revolution in Chennai at a function organised by the publisher of the book. Today I met VCK President Thol. Thirumavalavan along with printer/ publisher Menmai Mani and a Senior Comrade Padmanabhan and requested him to attend the said function and release the book. He has accepted our invitation. Mahendran, CPI National Executive Committee member and the Editor of Thamarai, a left leaning Tamil literary monthly journal has agreed to receive the first copy of the book. AITUC State Secretary and the General Secretary of Tamilnadu State Transport employees Federation Com.

J.Lakshmanan has consented to preside over the book release function. : Today's inspiring speech of Comrade CKM at NEC meeting in Vijayawada got every one's appreciation: In an hour long speech comrade CKM elaborately explained the present challenges before NFTE and the future tasks to face them successfully. On PLI he pressed for demanding rupees 7000/- as minimum Amount pending the finalisation of necessary formula. He urged the NEC to organise an agitation to oppose the handing over of 3000 CSCs of BSNL. Instead of handing over these CSCs fresh recruitment of Group C & D category of staff( Non- Executives) should begin by revoking the ban on recruitment. He also called upon the leadership to insist Pay revision for BSNL employees at par with Government of India employees as BSNL is a unique CPSU different from other CPSUs.

BSNL is the only PSU wherein employees are paid Government Pension from Consolidated Fund of India and GPF is continuing. Although Postal department is not running on profit for the last several years their employees are being paid Bonus ( 14000 rupees) and Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations were implemented with effect from. Comrade CKM urged the leadership to seek modifications in the rules for functioning of Councils so that agenda points are forwarded under the signatures of both Leader and Secretary of the staff Side. He condemned the MOU signed between India Post and Reliance Jio at the cost of Government company BSNL.

Modi Government's decision to form a separate subsidiary Tower company also an effort to destroy BSNL he called upon the NEC meeting to oppose this move with all our might of course with the support of all Unions and associations in BSNL. : Unity&Struggle:BSNLEU Style?: Unity & Struggle:BSNLEU Style? We felt very happy when a body like All Unions and Associations in BSNL was recently formed to safeguard the interests of both BSNL and it's employees. But today we come across a call given by BSNLEU for demonstration on 13-10-17 to demand Rs.7000/- as PLI. NFTE is holding it's National Executive meeting in Vijayawada on 13-10-17.

All important leaders like Circle Secretaries of NFTE will be away in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh on that day. But knowing fully this Comrade Abhimanyu is doing this for reasons beyond our imagination. He may like to score few brownie points on PLI so that it can be used in favour of BSNLEU in the next verification due in 2019. Our employees very well know how his union betrayed them on PLI for several years.

However he has a duty to answer the following questions. 1.Why he has not cared to give a joint/ united call for PLI?

2.Why he has avoided any decision to finalise the new formula for PLI since 2013? 3.He was justifying the denial of PLI for more than 6 years and kept quite justifying the denial of PLI citing financial difficulties of BSNL. He even declared from the top top few years ago that hence forth no one could get PLI in BSNL, when NFTE was struggling demanding PLI. Now what are the compelling reasons for his change of heart? One can fool some for long. Many for short time.

But no person can fool all the people all the time. : Congratulations to the Tamilnadu State unit of NFTCL: Congratulations to the Tamilnadu State unit of NFTCL for organising a massive demonstration of Contract Labourers throughout Tamilnadu for demanding immediate payment of Bonus. We also sincerely thank NFTE leaders and members who helped us to make today's Demonstration a very big success throughout the State. We appreciate all those who had enthusiastically participated in this demonstration mainly conducted for immediate payment of Bonus to all Contract Labourers in BSNL both in Chennai Telephones and Tamilnadu. : NFTCL Demonstration wearing Black badges for payment of Bonus (Rs.7000/-) before Deepavali: At the call of the Tamilnadu State Telecom Contract Labourers Federation (NFTCL) on nearly thousands of Contract Labourers held demonstration in Chennai, Thiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Villuppuram, Cuddalure, Trichy, Tanjore, Madurai, Karaikudi etc demanding immediate payment of 7000 rupees to the Contract Labourers. In the morning NFTCL State office bearers led by State Secretary Anandan met and discussed about this issue with RLC in Chennai. The Regional Labour Commissioner while instructing the CGMS of both Tamilnadu to immediately ensure payment of Bonus to the contract Labourers also requested NFTCL not to proceed with strike decision on 16-10-17 as the conciliation process is continuing and pending.

In this background the State Secretary has decided to postpone the strike as decided at the Special State Conference in Trichy held on 02-10-17. Let us hope the BSNL managements will honour their commitment to the Regional Labour Commissioner/Chennai. : Che Guevera_The Doctor who lovd Humanity: 50 years have passed after the martyrdom of Revolutionary Leader Che Guevara who was shot dead by a Bolivian government soldier on October-9, 1967 in southern Bolivia.

He along with Castro brothers Rahul and Fidel successfully over thrown the repressive regime of Batista, a dictator supported by USA in 1959. Che was born in Argentina but worked in entire Latin America for establishing communist governments there. He firmly believed that one Cuba or One Vietnam is not enough or Sufficient to sustain the socialist revolution.

That's the reason he left the ministership in Cuba to fight for the Bolivian revolution. He was actually a educated and trained Doctor. He loved the Humanity and chose Marxist philosophy to drive out hunger, poverty and all forms of exploitation. Let us pay our respectful homage today to this great leader of the international communist movement. : Unemployment is the biggest threat to the youth of India: India is having the largest population in the world next only to China. Any Government at both centre or state needs to create jobs for the educated youth in our country on top priority. On an average every day nearly 30000 job seekers enter the job market in India.

But only 450 persons could get the jobs daily. The rest 29550 persons are added to the bulging figure of unemployed daily. China is doing better in this area. It is able to create nearly 50000 fresh job vacancies every day. Narendra Modi promised the youth of our country that he will create 2 crores jobs every year. People believed in his promise and voted him to power.

But after three years this promise to create 2 crores jobs is not fulfilled yet. Modi government by its hasty and foolish policies like GST/Demonetisation is busily abolishing the existing jobs and destroying the chances of new jobs being created.

One of his Minister few days back joked that Indian youth are not interested in getting employment but anxious to become businessmen and do their own trade. Having cheated the voters and failed miserably to reduce the unemployment these leaders of BJP are speaking nonsense and become idiots. The present government at the centre is working over time to do service to the rich and powerful like Adani & Ambani,incidentally both are Gujaratis. India is great.Prime Minister of this great country should not behave like a Gujarati Businessman.

: Demonstration at CGM office on 16-10-17 by All Unions & Associations in BSNL: Asper the unanimous decision taken at the Delhi meeting of AUABSNL, it is proposed to hold a massive lunch hour demonstration at CGM/ Chennai Telephones in Purasawalkam mainly to get the Third Pay revision to all Employees and Executives in BSNL. Hence all our activists and office bearers of both NFTE and NFTCL are requested to attend the meeting and demonstration in October-16 ( Monday) with out fail and in time. : Simultaneous polls are impractical and impossible: The Election commission is acting like a subordinate body to the present Central Government although it is a fully independent and autonomous body vested with power to hold free and fair elections in a transparent manner. But it echoed the BJP's view point for holding simultaneous elections for both Assemblies and Parliament. This opinion itself is against the spirit of our constitution and federal nature of Governance. If Parliament's tenure is incomplete and get dissolved within five years for reasons beyond our capacity then unnecessarily the State Assemblies are to be dissolved.

For example the Eleventh and Twelfth Parliaments got dissolved without completing their full tenure in 18 months and 13 months respectively. Further the Assemblies elected in 2018/ 2017 will complete their tenure only in 2022/2023.

The next Parliamentary elections are due in 2019. How in this scenario simultaneous elections are possible.

This ill advised move by BJP is a first step towards the Presidential form of Government in India which is against the accepted consensus of Parliamentary Democracy. Modi and his friends are day dreaming to capitalise the so-called popularity of BJP and the disunity of Opposition parties. But they will get a rude shock like Vajpayee government. Finally it is a great irony or funny that the Election Commission of India is boasting ready to hold simultaneous polls in 2018 has actually failed to hold elections in a single day during Parliamentary or Assembly elections so far sighting the law and order situations and insufficient paramilitary forces to guard the polling stations and to provide security to the voters for ensuring a free and fair poll. Those who could not swim in a pool should not aim to swimming across oceans. : NFTE/Chennai Telephones has decided to extend full support to the proposed demonstration on 10-10-17 by NFTCL: NFTE / Chennai Telephones has decided to extend full support to the proposed demonstration on 10-10-17 by NFTCL, Tamilnadu State unit.

Our comrades should extend support to the just struggles of Contract Labourers. At CGM office in Purasawalkam: Both North & South Chennai District Comrades should attend here. NFTCL State Secretary S.Anandan will address this demonstration. At Thiruvallur exchange compound: Thiruvallur District comrades must attend here. NFTCL State Assistant Secretary Nagaiah will address the demonstration. At Kanchipuram exchange compound: Kanchipuram District comrades should attend here. NFTCL State President V.Babu will speak In this demonstration.

We hope NFTE leaders will also address and greet these demonstrations at all the places. We thank NFTE/ Chennai Telephones for actively supporting our agitation. Kindly coordinate with NFTE leaders at all places to make this agitation for Bonus a successful one. : Meeting with Sr.GM(HR) on to discuss the redeployment of staff: The management has called both the recognized unions for discussions regarding the redeployment of staff.NFTE was represented by comrades CKM, Elangovan and Rajendiran. The management was represnted by Sr.GM,DGM,AGM's and SDE's.BSNLEU was represented by comrades Kanniappan, Natarajan and Maran.We sugessted the following.

Employees who are due for retirement within a year will have to be exempted from this process. 2.As per norms immunity from tranfers to union leaders and office berarers must be given. 3.The redeployment should be within the DGM area(In ChennaiTelephones and within DE area(In Chengalpet areas. 4.This must be completed by ).

5.Next meeting will be held on November_4. 6.The management should hand over the additional information asked for by 17/10/17 to both the unions. : Extend support to the agitation call decided by NFTCL: The contract labourers federation has reuested NFTE's help and co-operation to the demonstration on as decided by their special state conference of NFTCL in Trichy on on the just demands of the contract labourers including payment of Rs 7000/- as bonus before Deepavali.

NFTE has agreed to support their agitation on and hence appeals to all our leaders and comrades at all levels of our union to extend their fullest cooperation and all possible help to this demonstration. : NFTCL State Conference decided to agitatate for Bonus before Deepavali: On at Uraiyur near Tiruchirapalli the Special State Conference of Tamilnadu State NFTCL was held. At the end the conference unanimously decided to organise lunch hour demonstration wearing black badges on at all district Headquarters and indefinite strike from by Contract Labourers to demand, 1. Rs.7000/- as Bonus be paid before Deepavali. Salary for weekly off. Yearly 12 days of leave be granted.

Ensure payment of salary by 7 th of every month. Issue of Photo ID cards. Implementation of orders regarding minimum wages and categorisation of wages. The conference was presided over by Comrade V. Mari, State Working President and was inaugurated by Comrade J.

Lakshmanan, AITUC Secretary and was addressed by Comrades CKM, Mali, Jayaraman, Subbarayan, Rajasekaran, Ashokraj, Anandan, Elangoven, Suresh, Palaniappan, Milton, Kamaraj and others. Nearly 21 delegates participated in the discussion in the afternoon. On the whole it was a very successful and massive Conference. : The Special State Conference of Tamilnadu NFTCL has just begun with flag hoisting in Tiruchirapalli today (02-10-17): Already more than 500 comrades from all over Tamilnadu have come to this conference. We expect another 250 + within an hour as many are yet to reach the conference hall and on the way. Tamilnadu congress committee Vice-President Sugu Somu has unfurled the National Flag and NFTCL ( CHQ) Vice- President Ashokraj has unfurled the Red flag of NFTCL amidst slogan shouting by the delegates.

This conference will focus on the four major demands of Telecom contract Labourers including Salary for weekly off and 12 days leave per year like NLC. : Raj Thackeray is sensible & correct: The leader of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has raised few questions in his interview appeared in today's The Hindu daily. What is the need for Bullet train at the huge cost of One lakh crore rupees. It will serve only the Gujarati people to travel from Mumbai to Ahmedabad and vice versa. When entire North east and Kashmir lacks Railway facilities this huge expenditure is immoral.This is being done only to win Gujarat elections once more.

Modi promised Indian People that if he becomes Prime Minister he will bring back all black money particularly from Swiss banks. He also promised that every one will be given 15 lakhs of rupees. But after three full years he is silent on this promise.

But BJP President laughs and says that this promise was just an election gimmick. Are they trying to fool the people? Modi announced Demonetisation a year back.

What is the amount of Black money unearthed till now? How many are arrested and behind bars for having Black money? Has corruption and terrorism stopped? In fact Raj Thackeray supported Modi in 2014 and praised him as a great visionary.

Now it seems he is very much disappointed like crores of Indian people. Former Finance Minister in Vajpayee government Yashwant Sinha few days ago told that the economic situation of our country is in great mess and very bad shape. Hope people of India will give correct punishment to Modi & Co in Polls.

: Wish Comrade M.Balaguru, J.E/ Tiruchirapalli a very happy retired life: On 27-09-17 at Tiruchirapalli a farewell function was organised for Comrade Balaguru, Asst. District Secretary of Tiruchi NFTE-BSNL in which leaders of NFTE/NFTCL/ SEWA/ BSNL PWA etc participated and greeted him. He came to Tiruchirapalli from Nagapattinam ( Kumbakonam SSA) in 2005 and since then working in Tiruchirapalli. His contributions to the trade union movement is remarkable.

As a sincere Communist he always stood firm in safeguarding the interests of the working people. I wished him a very happy retired life. : General Council Meeting of NFTE in Chennai Telephones on 26-09-17: General Council Meeting of NFTE in Chennai Telephones on 26-09-17 The extended Circle Executive Committee meeting was held at Flower Bazaar exchange compound. Circle President Ramasamy presided over the meeting. Earlier a condolence resolution was unanimously passed which condemned the brutal killing of Bangalore journalist Gowri Lankesh by Hindutva elements.

Comrade CKM introduced in his hour long speech all the agenda points. Rajasekaran, CHQ Secretary explained the importance of the National Executive Committee meeting in Vijayawada from 12 to 13 th of October 2017. After detailed discussion by Circle Union office bearers and District Secretaries the General Council took the following decisions. To press for the grant of Rs.

7000/- Bonus to all non- executive employees in BSNL. To convey the feelings and thinking of our empoyees in Chennai regarding delay in the implementation of third Pay revision. To press for a resolution against on the proposed handing over of 3000 CSCs to private agencies through tender 4. To compel the CHQ to organise an indefinite strike along with all other Unions/ Associations in BSNL for 3 PRC/ To stop the Formation of Separate Tower Company/ To stop Handing over the 3000 CSCs of BSNL to private agencies / To Revoke the ban on recruitment which is continuing ever since the days of Mrs. Indira Gandhi for more than 30 years. Only this step will avoid the acute shortage of staff.

The final decision on staff redeployment proposed by management should be implemented without disturbing the employees in large scale.Com. CKM assured the General Council Meeting that the details of discussion on redeployment of staff with Sr.GM(HR) on 03-10-17 will be informed to the Circle EC meeting and only after this final decision/ agreement will be signed with the management.

C.Ravi, Circle Treasurer proposed the vote of thanks. : Thiruvallur District NFTCL executive meeting at Ambattur on 25-09-17: The meeting of the Thiruvallur district Contract Labourers Federation meeting was held under the presidentship P. Many leaders of NFTCL and NFTE took part in it. Janakiraman of Thiruvallur was elected as the District Secretary in place of Com. Babu who was transferred out of the district and hence resigned from the post. This meeting was informed that more than 100 comrades will attend the Trichy conference on 02-10-17 from Thiruvallur district.

: Impressive beginning of Cuddalure / Villuppuram districts NFTCL conference at Villuppuram on 24-09-17: The Telecom Contract Labourers of Cuddalure/ Villuppuram Districts jointly held their conference at Villuppuram on 24-09-17. More than 400 Contract Labourers attended enthusiastically in which Comrades CKM, Jayaraman, Anandan, Babu, Mari, Ashokraj and many other leaders of both NFTE and NFTCL addressed the conference. At the beginning of the conference a memorial stone marking the victory of achieving the categorisation of wages to all telecom Contract Labourers. : Circle Conference of TEPU on 23-09-17: The fifth circle conference of TEPU was held in Chennai. Many politicians and union leaders greeted the conference. On behalf of National Forum and NFTE/ NFTCL comrade CKM took part in this conference and greeted it. The CGM, Miss.

Kalavati in her brief speech recalled the two days Fast undertaken by NFTE Circle Secretary CKM two years ago to demand inclusion of reputed hospitals in BSNL MRS and due to that many good and reputed hospitals were approved by the management. We thank the CGM for this appreciation of NFTE publicly in the circle conference of other union in the presence of BSNLEU/ SEWA/ PEWA/ OBCEWA/TEPU leaders.This conference was well organised by Comrade J. Vijayakumar, the CS and Dy.GS of TEPU. Com.V.Subburaman, GS/TEPU and Com.Masilamani.GS/PEWA addressed the conference and explained the present position of BSNL and its employees.

: NFTCL First State Conference in Jammu and Kasmir on: The first State conference of J&K state of Telecom contract labourers Federation was held onseptember-17 at the government Girls Higher Secondery School auditorium in Srinagar. The National president of NFTCL, Ashaq Ahemed presided over the conference and General Secretary, C.K.Mathivanan inugurated it. Lot of young and educated contract labourers very enthusistically participated and epressed their demands. In the afternoon session the new offic ebearers of State commitee of NFTCL were elected unanimously. State president: Com.RamkishenSharma(Jammu) State secretary: Com.Riyas Ahemeddar(Kashmir). National Vice president Ashokraj Greeted the conference and the newly elected office bearers. : Massive demonstration on 14-09-17: More than 370 comrades of Chennai Telephones very enthusiastically participated in today's demonstration which lasted for nearly 4 hours in Anna Road compound.

The demonstration was presided over by Comrade CKM and was attended by TEPU/ FNTO/ NFTCL/ PEWA / SEWA / NFTE Unions/ Associations. Member of Parliament T.K.S.

Utawarerumono Kimi Ga Tame Download here. Elangovan ( DMK),Hidayatullah (Congress) and J.Lakshmanan (CPI) spoke in the meeting held after the powerful demonstration and supported our struggle against privatisation of CSCs and formation of Separate tower company for 66000 BSNL mobile towers. Comrades Lingamoorthy, Vijayakumar, Jayaraman, Rajasekaran, Anandan, Babu, Mari, Arumugam and Elangovan also addressed the demonstrators. Though today morning only our National Forum announced its agitation against formation of Separate tower company in BSNL we decided to observe the same today itself along with the already planned demonstration against handing over of CSCs to private companies through tender. : Secretariat of the NFTE Circle Union: On 09-09-17 the meeting of the secretariat was held.

It decided to withdraw the General Council decision to hold demonstration at CGM 's office from to 14-09-17 to demand immediate convening the Local/Circle Councils and Works Committees. As the management swung into action and notified/ conducted all the meetings there is no point in holding the demonstration. The meeting also decided to hold a massive demonstration on 14-09-17 at Anna Road exchange compound to protest the handing over of CSCs in BSNL to private agencies through tender process. It is also decided to seek the support of all Unions/ Associations including BSNLEU/ FNTO. However the National Forum of BSNL Unions/ Associations has agreed to participate in it. The Secretariat meeting called upon all our activists and office bearers to mobilise maximum number of employees for this protest demonstration.

The next General Council Meeting will be held on 26-09-17. It was decided to mobilise at least 200 Contract Labourers to the NFTCL conference in Tiruchirapalli on 02-10-17. : Thanks to Sri.Thirunavukarasar!: We are thankful to the Tamilnadu Congress Committee President Thirunavukarasar for opposing the attempts by Modi government to hand over more than 3000 Customer Service Centres (CSCs) on the spacious plea that Staff retirement is high and there is not enough manpower to man these CSCs. Thirunavukarasar' s press statement is very crisp and to the point. He had assured full support to any struggles against this sinister move to destroy BSNL.

We thank him for this support. To express our sincere thanks tomorrow at 11.30 Circle Union leaders of both NFTE & NFTCL will meet him personally in Sathyamurthy Bhavan, the Congress party State Headquarters in Chennai.

: Superannuation of comrades: Today the NFTE branch Secretary of Kalmandapam / External Kannaiah came to our union office along with Division Secretary Anandadevan and Mohan to invite myself and Circle President Ramasamy for his farewell function on 13-09-17 though he is retiring on 30-09-17 on superannuation. I felicitated him and assured to participate in his farewell meeting. He has donated 2000 rupees towards donation to the Circle Union.

We thanked him and wish a very happy retired life. Today the Division Secretary of Tambaram under Kanchipuram District Union Comrade Sarangapani came to our union office along with Comrades Ekambaram, Selvarj to invite me, Circle President Ramasamy and NFTCL Tamilnadu State President for his retirement function. He also arranged on the same date the opening of a new branch of NFTCL there. Myself felicitated him and assured him of my participation in his farewell function on 25-09-17 along with NFTCL State Secretary S.Anandan. : Modi government hasty decision: Modi government has given 500 mobile handsets to high ranking Central Government officers in the rank of Secretary / Additional Secretary/ Joint Secretary level to avoid leakage of sensitive information/ communications.

But the surprise part of the story is that these mobile handsets will be used only through Reliance JIO sims. So Modi has only faith in Ambani's company.

He doesn't have any faith on the government company BSNL which is 100% owned by Government of India. Shame on the Prime Minister. NFTE / Chennai Telephones alongside all Unions and Associations in BSNL is planning to protest against this I'll advised move of the BJP government and to demand reversal of a very wrong decision of entrusting the job of keeping the communications secret to a fraudulent private sector company ignoring and insulting BSNL, a national PSU company. : Staff Side meeting on 07-09-17: BSNLEU & NFTE leaders met at the Conference hall of GM ( North) in Flower Bazaar exchange complex.

The meeting was chaired by Circle Council staff Side Leader C. Mathivanan, Staff side Secretary Comrade Kanniappan explained the forthcoming Circle Council agenda. After discussion by both the Union leaders agenda points were finalised.Com. Elangovan, ACS / NFTE proposed vote of thanks. After this meeting informally both the unions have agreed to organise jointly a demonstration In Chennai 1. Against the Move of the Management to hand over the CSCs to the private agencies.

To protest against the decision of the Modi government to hand over 500 Reliance Jio handsets to all the high ranking officers of central government ignoring the BSNL. The date and venue will be Announced after few days. : Corporate Headquarters trying to destroy BSNL?: Today number of press and Television Reporters contacted me over phone to get my reaction on the decision of the BSNL corporate office to hand over the Customer Service Centres ( CSCs) to private agencies. I was informed by the media people that the reasons attributed by the management of BSNL for this handing over of CSCs was heavy retirement of staff manning these CSCs.

I expressed my opposition to this retrograde step of BSNL management which will surely break the back bone of BSNL itself. But why National leadership of any Union in BSNL has not given this news in their websites so far? Probably they might not aware of this very wrong decision. How the management could take such nasty decisions without discussing with the unions in BSNL?

If this news is correct we need to oppose it with all our might unitedly. Otherwise the management will be emboldened to hand over each and every part of our work to private agencies gradually as retirement of employees is not going to stop and will only continue in future also. I informed the media people that since 1983 the ban on recruitment of Group C/D category staff continue for more than 34 years without any break. Naturally the retirement of staff created acute shortage of staff in BSNL where the Staff Telephones ratio is very very low. If the management is really worried about the less number of staff manning the CSCs, Why it shouldn't begin recruitment of new and young people instead of handing over the work of CSCs to private agencies? This will help thousands of young educated but unemployed youth of our country. But the policy of the government ( Department of Telecom) is to destroy Public Sector companies particularly in Telecom Sector ( BSNL/ MTNL) so that its well wishers in Reliance Jio and other private companies grow and reap huge profits.

Hence the struggle to oppose and stop this anti- BSNL decision must be prompt, united and strong. Fast/ Dharna like protest actions will not reverse the Government's decisions. Hope the Unions will raise above all differences to begin immediate strike action to stop the works of BSNL are systematically being handed over to Private agencies/ companies on one or the other pretext. : அனிதாவின் தற்கொலை அரசபயங்கரவாதம் - சிவகார்த்திகேயன் முதல் ஜஸ்டின் பிரபாகரன் வரை #NEETkilledAnitha: வறுமையைவென்று தலைநிமிர்ந்து மருத்துவராக வாழவேண்டும் என்று ஆசைப்பட்ட ஏழை மாணவி அனிதா. ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் எதிர்காலம் குறித்து கனவுகண்டு, அதை நினைவாக்க கல்வி ஒன்றே வழி என்று உணர்ந்து கண்ணும் கருத்துமாய் படித்து இந்த ஆண்டு பொதுத்தேர்வில் ப்ளஸ் டூ வகுப்பில் 1176 மதிப்பெண்கள் வாங்கியிருந்தார்.

ஆனால், மத்திய அரசு கொண்டுவந்துள்ள 'நீட்' நுழைவுத்தேர்வில் அவரால் போதிய மதிப்பெண்களைப் பெறமுடியவில்லை. காரணம் கல்வித்திட்டம். சிபிஎஸ்சி கல்வியின் அடிப்படையில் கேட்கப்பட்ட கேள்விகளுக்கு மாநில கல்வியில் படித்தவர்களால் சரியான விடையளிக்க முடியவில்லை. : நீட் வெறும் தொடக்கமே: [கீழ்கண்ட கட்டுரை விகடன் வலைத்தளத்தில் வெளியிடப்பட்டது. பிறகு இதை செம்மைப்படுத்தி வெளியிட வேண்டும் என்று நினைத்து முடியாமல் போயிற்று. தற்போதைய சூழலில் இது முக்கியத்துவம் வாய்ந்தது.

‘தரம்’ ‘தரம்’ என்பவர்களின் நோக்கம் சுதந்திரத்திற்கு முன்பிருந்தே ஒன்று தான். மனுநீதியை உறுதி செய்வது தான் அது. அதன் தொடக்கம் தான் நீட்.] Rajagopal Subramaniam.

ஐந்து எட்டாம் வகுப்பு மாணவர்களுக்கான பொது தேர்வு அவசியமா?: நாடு முழுவதும் ஐந்து மற்றும் எட்டாம் வகுப்புகளுக்கு தேர்வு நடத்துவதற்காக சட்டம் இயற்றப்படும் என்று மத்திய மனிதவளத்துறை அமைச்சர் பிரகாஷ் ஜவடேகர் அறிவித்துள்ளார். மார்ச் தேர்வில் தோல்வியடைபவர்களுக்கு இரண்டு மாதத்தில் மீண்டும் ஒரு வாய்ப்பு மே மாதம் வழங்கப்படும், எனினும் மாநிலங்கள் விரும்பாவிட்டால் இது திணிக்கப்படாது என்றும் தற்போது வரை 23 மாநிலங்கள் தேர்வை விரும்புவதாகவும் கூறியுள்ளார்.

தனியார் பள்ளிகளை விட அரசு பள்ளிகளில் பள்ளிகல்வியிலிருந்து வெளியேறுவது இரண்டு மடங்கு அதிகம் என்பதை ஒத்துக்கொண்டுள்ள அவர் அது பற்றி ஆராய்வதற்கு எந்த நடவடிக்கையும் மேற்கொள்ளப்படாது என்பதையும் அறிவித்துள்ளார். இது எத்தகைய விளைவுகளை ஏற்படுத்தும் என்பதை ஆராய்வதே கட்டுரையின் நோக்கம்.

விரிவாக இது குறித்து ஆராய்வதற்கு முன்பு, கட்டாய ஆரம்பக் கல்வி (ஆறு முதல் 14 வயது வரை உள்ள குழந்தைகளின் கல்வி) குறித்த வரலாற்று ரீதியிலான ஒரு மீள் பார்வையும் அவசியம். மேலும், ஆரம்பக் கல்வி அரசியமைப்புச்சட்ட அடிப்படை உரிமையாக 2௦௦2-ல் மாற்றப்படுவதற்கு மிக நீண்ட நெடிய வரலாறு இருக்கிறது.பிரிட்டிஷ் இந்தியாவில் கல்வி என்பது பார்ப்பனர்களுக்கும் பிற உயர் சாதியினருக்கும் மட்டுமே இருந்த நிலையில் மகாத்மா ஜோதிராவ் பூலே கல்விக்கான இந்திய கமிஷனான ஹன்ட்டர் கமிஷனிடம் 1882-ம் ஆண்டு கல்வியில் சாதி ரீதியிலான பேதத்தை சுட்டிக்காட்டி முறையீடு செய்கிறார். எதிர்பார்த்தபடியே ஒன்றும் நடக்கவில்லை. பிறகு கோபால கிருஷ்ண கோகலே 1911-ம் ஆண்டு அனைவருக்குமான கட்டாய இலவச கல்விக்கான மசோதாவை இம்பீரியல் சட்ட மன்றத்தில் கொண்டு வந்த போது உயர் குடியினரிடமிருந்தும், நில உடமையாளர்களிடமிருந்தும் பல்வேறு சமஸ்தானங்களின் மகாராஜாக்களிடமிருந்து கடும் எதிர்ப்பு நிலவியது. பீகார், தர்பங்காவை சேர்ந்த மஹாராஜா அனைத்து குழந்தைகளையும் பள்ளிக்கு அனுப்பிவிட்டால் பண்ணை வேலைகளை யார் பார்ப்பது என்று ஆட்சேபித்து பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான நில உடைமையாளர்கள், ஜமீன்தார்களிடம் கையெழுத்து பெற்று அனுப்பியிருக்கிறார் என்றால் எதிர்ப்பு எத்தகையது என்பது புரியும். பிறகு 1937-ம் ஆண்டு காந்தி வார்தாவில் நடைபெற்ற தேசிய கல்வி மாநாட்டில் பலத்த எதிர்ப்புக்கிடையே 7 வயது வரைக்குமான குழந்தைகளுக்கு ஆரம்பக் கல்விக்கு சம்மதிக்க வைத்திருக்கிறார்.

பிறகு அரசியலமைப்புச் சட்ட விவாதங்களிலும் கட்டாய கல்வியை அடிப்படை உரிமைகளின் கீழ் கொண்டு வருவதற்கு கடும் எதிர்ப்பு நிலவியது. ‘நிதிச்சுமை’, செயல்படுத்த முடியாத விஷயங்களை அடிப்படை உரிமைகளாக்குவதால் பயனில்லை’ போன்ற பல்வேறு காரணங்கள் பட்டியலிடப்பட்டன. பல்வேறு கட்ட விவாதங்களுக்கு பிறகு கட்டாய ஆரம்பக் கல்வியை அடிப்படை உரிமைகளின் கீழ் கொண்டு வராமல் வழிகாட்டு நெறிமுறைகளின் (Directive principles of state policy) கீழ் சேர்க்கப்பட்டது. இதன் படி அரசமைப்புச்சட்ட அமலான பத்து ஆண்டுகளுக்குள் ஒவ்வொரு மாநிலமும் பதினான்கு வயதுக்குட்பட்ட அனைத்து குழந்தைகளுக்கும் கட்டாயமாக இலவச கல்வி அளிக்க வேண்டும். கட்டாய ஆரம்பக்கல்வியை 14 வயது வரை நீடித்தால் மனித வள பற்றாக்குறை ஏற்படும், கல்விக்கான நிதிச்சுமை ஏற்படும், எனவே 11 வயது வரை சுருக்கி கொள்ளலாம் என்று அப்போதும் ‘மனித நேய மாந்தர்கள்’ குரல் கொடுத்திருக்கிறார்கள். அம்பேத்கர் இதை ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளாமல் இறுதி வரை போராடி, ‘11 வயது தான் குழந்தை தொழிலாளி உருவாவதற்கான பருவம்’ என்று குறிப்பிட்டு 14 வயது வரை அவர்கள் இருக்க வேண்டிய இடம் பள்ளிகள் தான் என்று 11 வயது வரம்பை அனுமதிக்கவில்லை. ஆனால், பத்து ஆண்டுகளுக்குள் செய்ய வேண்டிய அரசியலமைப்புச்சட்ட கடமையை எந்த மாநில அரசும் செய்யவில்லை.

[ஆனால், இதே போல வழிகாட்டு நெறிமுறைகளின் கீழ் சேர்க்கப்பட்ட ‘கால்நடை பாதுகாப்பு நடவடிக்கையாக பசுவதை தடுப்பை உறுதி செய்ய வேண்டும்’ என்பதை பின்பற்றி தமிழ்நாடு உட்பட பல்வேறு மாநிலங்கள் சட்டம் இயற்றி தடுத்தார்கள் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.] பிறகு, கல்விக்கான பல்வேறு கமிஷன்கள், கொள்கை வரைவுகள், விவாதங்களுக்கு பிறகு 2௦௦2-ஆம் ஆண்டு தான் 14 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட குழந்தைகளுக்கு கட்டாய இலவச ஆரம்பக் கல்வி அளிக்க வேண்டும் என்பது அடிப்படை உரிமைகளின் கீழ் கொண்டு வரப்பட்டு 86-வது அரசியலமைப்புச்சட்ட திருத்தம் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டது. இதற்கு பிறகு தான் மத்திய அரசின் கட்டாய கல்வி உரிமைச்சட்டம், 2௦௦9 நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டது. ஆனால், இந்த கல்வி உரிமைச் சட்டம் குறித்து அனில் சடகோபால் உள்ளிட்ட கல்வியாளர்கள் கடும் அதிருப்தி தெரிவித்து விரிவாக ஆராய்ந்து இது எவ்வாறு அரசியலமைப்புச்சட்டத்தின் சமத்துவத்துக்கு எதிராக இருக்கிறது என்று எழுதியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

கல்வி அனைவருக்கும் பொதுவானதாக, சமமானதாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்பது தான் அரசியலமைப்புச்சட்டத்தின் அடிப்படை கோட்பாடு. ஆனால், யதார்த்தத்தில் வட்டார அரசு பள்ளிகள், கிராம பள்ளிகள், அரசு மத்திய பள்ளிகள், நவோதயா பள்ளிகள், ராணுவ சைனிக் பள்ளிகள், தனியார் பள்ளிகள், சர்வதேச உறைவிட பள்ளிகள் என உட்கட்டமைப்பு வசதிகளிலும், தரத்திலும் மக்களிடையே பாகுபாடு ஏற்படுத்துவதை அங்கீகரிப்பதாக தான் இந்த சட்டம் இருக்கிறது என்று குறிப்பிடுகிறார்கள். மேலும், புதிய பொருளாதார கொள்கைகளின் அடிப்படையில் இந்தியா கையெழுத்திட்ட காட் ஒப்பந்தத்தின் அடிப்படையில் கல்வியை பண்டமாக்கும் ஒரு முயற்சியாகவும் கல்வியில் தனியாரை ஊக்குவிப்பதற்காகவும் பெரு முதலாளிகளுக்கு தேவைப்படும் கூலிகளாக அனுப்பும் வண்ணமும் தான் அரசின் கல்விக் கொள்கைகள் உள்ளன என்றும் சாடுகிறார்கள். ஆனால், எவ்வளவு குறைபாடுகள் இருந்தாலும் இந்த சட்டத்தில் உள்ள ஒரு நல்ல அம்சமாக ஆரம்பக்கல்வி முடிக்கும் வரை அதாவது எட்டாம் வகுப்பு வரை மாணவர்கள் தேர்வில் வெற்றி பெற தேவையில்லை என்பதை குறிப்பிடலாம். பெரும்பான்மையான கிராமப்புற ஏழை, நடுத்தர வர்க்கத்தை சேர்ந்த மாணவர்களின் கல்வி என்பது அவர்கள் எந்த வகுப்பிலாவது தோல்வி அடைவதோடு முடிந்து விடும்.