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Magnificent struggle of United Forum Well Friends!!! United Forum will not comment on who is doing agitation through Website and who is doing on the ground. It is for the members to compare whether sitting on three days Hunger Fast is real agitation or converting one day Dharna into lunch hour demo and the lunch hour lasting for five minutes is real agitation. We will also not comment on the organizational ethics of the so called association who has been doing everything to derail the settlement of issues and running every nuke and corner to stop management from settling the demands of the United Forum. We also won't comment on why it took ten days for them to publish the issues on their th website as according to them everything was settled on 17 itself. Perhaps they were waiting for the final settlement with United Forum to claim the credit thereafter. Perhaps they think that members are fools and they will buy their wizard logics and unnecessary tantrums. However, we still request members to concentrate on the larger cause as indulging into unnecessary mudslinging will deviate us from our real goal. We request members to ignore the child like tantrums of the great warriors and concentrate on their work whole heartedly to overcome the losses which may have happened owing to the resentment of the executives. The magnificent struggle of united forum of AIBSNLEA & AIGETOA and its achievements has paved the way for the settlement of the long pending HR issues of BSNL executives and has proved the strength and importance of executives before management. All the organisational actions i.e. demonstration, one day Dharna on 13.5.2016, day long hunger fast for three days on 25, 26, 27 may 2016 have been successfully implemented throughout the th country. During the agitation, several meetings were held with BSNL management. On 13 May, CMD called the General Secretaries of all the three Associations wherein date for the meeting was th fixed as 19 May 2016 with all the three General Secretaries together. However, the GS of the th friendly association held the meeting on 17 only for the reasons known to all as he was not th th willing to wait till 19 May 2016. In the meeting on 19 May, Detailed discussion with CMD BSNL took place on the main issues of Standard Pay Scales, Implementation of CPSU Hierarchy, Abolishing of MT and DGM RRs, Implementation of 30% Superannuation to all DRs, conduction of CPCs, Declaration of LDCE results, consideration of Rule -8 cases and holding of recruitment drive in tenure and shortfall circles etc. Director (HR) & other HR Officers were also present in the meeting. On the Pay scale issue, we demanded replacement of scales with promotions as per existing EPP. We explained to CMD BSNL that keeping one executive in E3 scales for 10 years just to offshoot his gain in lower scale is not at all justified. Earlier CMD was having some doubts about the demand because of wrong feeding from some corners but after listening to our arguments and submissions, CMD BSNL was convinced that whatever we are pleading is correct and keeping an executive in a scale for 10 years should not be done. He immediately directed for implementing our proposal. Establishment cell pointed out that if the proposal of United Forum is implemented, there may be lot of anomalies which can be difficult to settle afterwards. CMD BSNL told that whatever we are pleading is logical and asked what will happen if the scales are upgraded for all executives. Establishment cell pointed out that group B executive will reach E7 scales while as per EPP they can be promoted up to E6 only. Establishment cell also informed that there shall be huge financial implication on implementing this proposal. Establishment cell also pointed that with replacement of scales for all executives, there won't be any anomalies. CMD BSNL told them that when executive are getting some benefit out of refusal by government, to snatch that benefit from executives is not good and BSNL should bear the expenses occurring as an outcome of refusal by government to implement E1A and E2A. We asked from CMD BSNL that whether the proposal TELEWAVE 31 MAY-2016