Meeting with DIR(HR): GS and CHQ President met Smt Sujata T Ray, DIR(HR) on 02.03.17 and held discussions on

a) Finalising CPSU Cadre Hierarchy: Since all the promotions are stalled due to litigations, there is an urgent need to finalise the proposal. DIR(HR) is also very keen to find a solution to the stalemate and assured to finalise it at the earliest.

Further the Man power plan is also to be finalized as all HR issues are stopped in the BSNL Board by the Board of Directors from DoT in the name of HR plan. In HR power plan, the number of posts will be reworked based on assets and number of connections. There will be a sharp cut in the number of vacancies, making the functional promotional avenues practically NILL. So before finalization of HR plan we have to switch over to CPSU Hierarchy.

b) DGM Promotions: The DGM promotions for all the vacancies are to be completed at the earliest so that promotion orders can be issued in March. Necessary approval may be given for that purpose. DIR(HR) agreed to complete the DPC at the earliest.

c) Sending response to DoT on 3^rd PRC. Several rounds of discussions held with GM(SR) on the BSNL response to DoT. All the important aspects like affordability, three years performance and operational profits, pay revision with full 15% fitment, motivation to the employees to face the competition, pension contribution, huge retirement in the coming years etc are made part of the response. First time in the history of BSNL, we had seen that BSNL making a positive response with regard to pay revision.