FORUM OF BSNL UNIONS / ASSOCIATIONS New Delhi vide letter No: Forum/103/19 (i) dated 07.03.2016 writes to the Secretary, DoT, New Delhi on ” Inordinate delay in the extension of the benefit of 78.2% IDA merger to the pensioners” – Extracts…
The DoT, vide letter no.61-01/2012-SU dated 10th June, 2013, has approved the revision of wages to the BSNL employees, based on 78.2% IDA merger. However, this benefit of 78.2% IDA merger has so far not been extended to the BSNL pensioners who retired prior to 10.06.2013.
So far, the issue is not sent for the approval of the Cabinet. … we have come to know that presently the DoT is considering as to whether the 78.2% IDA merger of the pensioners of both BSNL and MTNL should also be linked or not. In this regard, we wish to bring to your kind notice that the benefit of 78.2% IDA merger is still not given to the serving employees of the MTNL. As such, extension of the benefit of 78.2% IDA merger to the MTNL pensioners does not arise at all. But in the case of BSNL pensioners, it is already more the two and half years since the benefit of 78.2% IDA merger is given to the serving BSNL employees. ….request you to kindly do the needful, for obtaining necessary Cabinet approval for extending the 78.2% IDA merger benefit to the BSNL pensioners.
