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1. Taking CENVATable credit on delivery of equipment's itself based on BSNL Corporate Office instructions as decision taken in HOCC. 2. Commissioning of all pending Lease Line circuits to get more revenue. MLLN modems, core equipment, routers etc. are readily available to meet the requirement of lease lines. 3. Rs. 1250/- Crore Rural deficit from DoT administrative sanction should come early which may be counted in this fiscal year. 4. Revenue flow is not the problem of the company but the Top line of the company has to be increased. 5. BSNL is increasing its wi-fi network by making core network compatible with 4G technology by creating more hot spots. 6. Efforts should be made to get the 4G spectrum on free of cost or at minimum bench mark to BSNL in lieu of rural deficit withdrawal and state owned company etc. 7. BSNL has provided 22,000 mobile towers under phase-viii and replaced 11,000 towers of phase-iv which has increased the quality of service. 8. BSNL MNP has increased continuously because of better quality of service which should continue. We requested CMD to motivate employees more by granting admissibility of allowances like medical reimbursement with voucher for outdoor treatment, professional up-gradation allowance, house rent allowance etc at IDA basic pay with 78.2% fitment. CMD assured to consider some of the allowances at 78.2% fitment. CMD further mentioned that the performance of all the circle / SSA heads are being monitored and they will get choice of posting as per their performance only. Meeting of the Forum of BSNL Unions / Associations on 04.03.2016: A meeting of the Forum was held on 04.03.2016, at BSNL MS office. Com. Prahlad Rai, GS, AIBSNLEA, presided over the meeting. Com. P. Abhimanyu, Convenor, welcomed the participants and briefly explained about the agenda items of the meeting. After detailed discussions, the following decisions are taken. A. Service With A Smile (SWAS) programme. The meeting viewed that the call of the Forum for implementing the SWAS programme has received very good response from the employees. The meeting heartily congratulated the entire employees of BSNL for making the 'Service With A Smile' programme a tremendous success. Detailed discussion took place for making the programme more effective, and also it's extension beyond 31.03.2017. It was decided to inform the Management that more focus should be given on Leased Lines, by providing necessary equipments. It was also decided that the Unions and Associations should make updatings on their websites with regards to information related to the SWAS programme. B. March 10th protest action by Central Trade Unions. The Central Trade Unions have given call to observe a protest action on 10th March, 2016, against Labour Law Amendments, Disinvestment in PSUs, Allowing FDI in strategic sectors and also demanding settlement of the 12 point charter of demands. The Forum has decided to participate in this protest action, by including the following demands: i. Rs.1250 crore compensation from USO Fund should be paid to BSNL without any further delay. ii. The amount spent by BSNL for paying the salaries of employees deputed to DoT and TERM Cells should be reimbursed immediately. iii. Pension contribution, by BSNL, to the government should be calculated only based on basic pay of the employees and not on the maximum of the pay scale. iv. Budget proposal for taxation on EPF withdrawals should be taken back. v. 78.2% IDA merger for pensioners should be settled immediately. C. Proposed ICR agreement with the Reliance JTO. TELEWAVE 38 MARCH-2016