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The counsel for contempt petitioners have chosen to withdraw the contempt petition and the high court has been pleased to dispose of the contempt petition on his statement. No adverse observation with account to supernumerary posting of Officiating JTOs have been made by the court virtually accepting the stand of BSNL to adjust earlier test qualifying offg. JTOs. This order paved the way for adjustment/regular promotion of all other offg. JTOs as a onetime measure all over India. The BSNL Management finally decided to amend the JTO RR-2001 with new JTO RR-2015 which has been cleared by the BSNL MC and pending for BSNL Board’s approval. As soon as the Board approval comes the regularization of offg. JTOs will take place. As per new JTO RR 2015 the eligibility from TTA to JTO LICE will be 5 years service instead of 7 years of service. The seniority will be determined on the basis of marks obtained in the training centres. JTO will continue to be a Circle cadre in the scale of E1+5 advance increments. 3.15 E1+5 Increments benefit to JTO (SRD), JAOs 2013 batch and PAs: The BSNL Management Committee has cleared the proposal of E1+5 Increments benefit to JTO (SRD), JAOs 2013 batch and PAs which is pending for BSNL Board approval. 3.16 Allowing to exercise option to Deptt. JAOs on their promotion: The pay anomaly case of departmental JAOs was processed by PAT Cell. A committee formed headed by PGM (SR), Sr. GM(Pers.), GM(Estt.), GM(EF) and GM(FP) and the said committee finalized the report and submitted to competent authority for approval. The said Committee recommended five additional increment benefits to Deptt. JTOs/JAOs at par with direct recruit JTOs/JAOs and accordingly implemented. AIBSNLEA consistent efforts yielded result in getting released order on 24.07.2015 regarding pay fixation of JAOs(Deptl)(40% quota) of 2010 Batch arising out of Non-Executives' Wage revision orders dated 7.5.2010 and subsequent clarification dated 18.5.2011 3.17 Antedating of pay - anomaly due to accrual of increment of Junior earlier than the senior nd after fixation of pay in revised pay scale implementation of 2 PRC: We have requested to restore the original order dated 23.09.2009 wherein provision for ante-dating the increment of the senior to that of the junior was envisaged. Alternatively, management can think of any other solution that will address the issue of anomaly wherein the junior does not draw more pay than the senior and also the senior does not face any drop in his basic pay which he/she will be drawing by virtue of the 3% annual increment provided in the rule for example senior’s pay will be stepped up with respect his junior and further senior’s old DNI is restored will remove the future anamoly.. We have discussed the issue with new GM (Estt) who has assured to examine the issue afresh. 3.18 Merger of Civil/Electrical Division with SSAs: We expressed our serious concern against the merger of Civil Divisions with SSAs wherein one EE (C/E) will be reporting to one SSA Head and will carried out the work in 3-4 SSAs which will adversely affect the work of other SSAs. We demanded that either the EE (C/E) post are to be created SSA wise or the merger should take place up-to CE (C/E) level only. The matter is now resolved with the intervention of ED (NB). 3.19 Pension issues of BSNL pensioners: 1) 78.2% IDA Merger Issue For the Pensioners: After lot of persuasion made by this Association and lot of file movement within DOT and outside DOT, ultimately the draft Cabinet Memo on 78.2% IDA merger for pensioners has been approved by the MOC Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad on 09-06-2015 exactly after two years of issuance of the order for serving employees. As per the procedure the Cabinet note has been circulated to four nodal ministries i.e. Legal, Expenditure, Public Enterprises and Pension & Pensioners welfare for their comments. All ministries have sent favourable comment except DOE who asked certain clarifications. DOT is now preparing the reply of the queries and it will be sent to DOE soon. After receipt of their final comments, DOT will prepare the reply of the comments and it will be compiled with the cabinet memo and will be submitted for Cabinet Approval. As gathered from the reliable sources the Cabinet Memo has proposed the following: TELEWAVE Page-38 AUGUST-2015