BSNL EMPLOYEES UNBSNL EMPLOYEES UNION
Dada Ghosh Bhawan, Opp. Shadipur Bus Depot., New Delhi – 110008
Phone: 25705385, 25894100, fax: 25894862
Email: chqbsnleu@sify.com, website: bsnleuchq.com
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BSNLEU / 505(PROM) 06.11.2009
To
Shri P.J. Thomas,
Secretary,
Department of Telecommunications,
Sanchar Bhawan,
New Delhi – 110 001
Sir,
Sub:-BSNL non-executives Promotion policy agreement- request for approval of
9200-250-13200 payscale - reg
With reference to the above mentioned subject, we submit the following for your kind
consideration:
1. After three and half years of discussion, the BSNL management signed an agreement
with the recognized union of BSNL non-executives i.e BSNL Employees Union, on 30-
10-2008 on the issue of promotion policy for non-executives as per which the nonexecutives
are to be given time bound upgradation to the next higher scale on
completion of 8 years service in BSNL in a particular IDA pay scale. Maximum 4
promotions are to be given in BSNL as per this agreement. (In this connection it is
submitted that the BSNL management favored the executives with five time bound
upgradations in BSNL at the rate of one upgradation for every five years).
2. The non-executives are having 11 pay scales, from NE-1 to NE-11. To facilitate next
upgradation with in the purview of these four upgradations, to those who are in the NE-
11 pay scale, a new pay scale 9200-250-13200(NE-12) was included in this agreement.
3. This agreement was sent by the BSNL management for the approval of DoT and DoT in
turn wrote to BSNL management stating that as per the Articles of Association the BSNL
Board was having the power to decide about the promotion policy agreement. But
instead of approving and implementing the promotion policy agreement, the BSNL
management sought for the approval of the newly formulated NE-12 pay scale(9200-
250-13200) from DoT on the plea that without such approval, the CCAs(Controllers of
Communications Accounts) might object for payment of pension for those who would
retire in that pay scale.
4. It is understood that the authorities in DoT are raising an objection regarding this NE-12
pay scale that it is coming into conflict with the E-0 scale prescribed by DPE and such a
conflict is not allowed as per DPE guidelines. In this connection the following facts are
submitted for your kind consideration:
(a) In BSNL, there are no E0 and E1 pay scales for the executives. The Executives
pay scales are starting with E1A (9850-250-14600). The proposed
pay scale NE-12(9200-250-13200) is therefore not in conflict with any of the executives’
pay scales in BSNL.
(b) It is understood that as per the DoT authorities, the maximum of this NE-
11(8570-245-12245) is already more than the maximum of the standard E0 pay
scale (6550-200-11350) prescribed by DPE and hence it is already in conflict with
DPE prescribed executives’ pay scales and an additional pay scale NE-12 conflicting
with this executive pay scale is against DPE guidelines. In this connection it is to be
noted that the highest recruitment pay scale for non-executives in BSNL is only NE-
9(7100-200-10100) and the NE-10 and NE-11 are merely for facilitating time bound
promotions on completion of 16/26 years service and more in the same cadre, as per
the earlier DoT orders.
(c) In the CDA pay scale which were in operation prior to 1-10-2000 when the BSNL
absorbed employees were DoT employees, the equivalent of the NE-11(8570-245-
12245) was 6500-200-10500 and the pay scale of JTO(the lowest level executive in
BSNL) at that time was equal to this pay scale. With the idea that the pay scale of
non-executive should be less than the pay scale of executives, the BSNL
management created the equivalent of this pay scale as 8570-245-12245 for nonexecutives
and 9850-250-14600 for executives. This being the historical background,
the NE-12 pay scale created for the purpose of time bound promotion for the nonexecutives
will naturally be higher than this 8570-245-12245 pay scale. Therefore
when viewed in this background, the 9200-250-13200 pay scale is fully justified.
2. In view of the fact that this NE-12 pay scale is less than the lowest executive pay scale
E1A in BSNL and in view of the above said historical back ground and relativities, it is
requested to kindly cause necessary action for approval of this 9200-250-13200 pay
scale and help in the immediate implementation of the BSNL non-executives promotion
policy which remains unimplemented even one year after signing it.
We shall be very much thankful for considering this request.
Yours faithfully
(V.A.N.NAMBOODIRI)
General Secretary
Same letter addressed to: (1) Smt. Vijayalakshmi K. Gupta, Member (Finance), DoT, New Delhi.
(2) Shri Subodh Kumar, Additional Secretary, DoT, New Delhi.
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