2 lakh BSNL employees on 3-day strike, say Modi government not serious to resolve crisis
Earlier, to cut down on expenditure, BSNL has frozen employee benefits to sustain the current market situation.
The employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on Monday began their 3-day strike to protest the prolonged delay in revision of wages and allotment of 4G spectrum, among other reasons. Fear of closure and disinvestment are also looming over the state-owned telecom firm.
Earlier, to cut down on expenditure, BSNL has frozen employee benefits to sustain the current market situation.
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Meanwhile, a BSNL employee union on Monday charged the government of not making sincere attempts to resolve problems faced by the PSU to benefit a rival telecom firm, while workers went on a three-day strike to press for their demands.
The union levelled charges a day after the telecom department announced that it was engaging with the BSNL management and representatives of the unions and associations to support their reasonable demands.
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Employees who are protesting want spectrum allocation to the company for 4G services, approval of land management policy of BSNL, implementation of pay revision committee, adjustment of pension contribution etc. "Government issued a bogus statement on Sunday that it will engage with BSNL employees and our main demand is wage revision with 15 per cent fitment. We understand financial status of BSNL and we conveyed to DoT that we will accept 5 per cent fitment instead of 15 per cent. Still it did not reflect in their statement," All India Unions and Associations of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (AUAB) Convenor P Abhimanyu told PTI.
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