BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT THE
MISCHIEVOUS ACTS
Once again they did it. But in the process
exposed their
shallow
knowledge about the service matters and the connected
Service
Rules. We are talking about the Association of the so
called
BSNL Executives. By having got the unsuspecting BSNL to
write
the CGMs to forward any representation received from the
adhoc
DEs for their placement in the Selection Grade, they
created
an expectation in some DEs promoted on adhoc regarding
grant
of Selection Grade to them. They quoted the June 2000
Office
Memorandum of the Deptt of Personnel & Training and jumped
in
joy as if they have unearthed a hidden treasure which even
TESA
failed to do so. They made others to believe as if the adhoc
DEs
with five years of service are eligible for placement in
selection
grade. But these drum beaters had little knowledge that
TESA
was aware of the O M from the very beginning of its issue
and
the complete O M was even published in July 2000 issue of
Teleservice.
Moreover, it was TESA which was pursing the particu�
lar
recommendation of V CPC, exclusively meant for the
Superin�
tending
Engineers of CPWD, with all concerned including the
Empowered
Committee of Secretaries constituted at that time for
cover Engineers in other disciplines in general and
Telecom in
particular.
However TESA did not press for implementation of
DoP&T's
June 2000 O.M., since it would have
caused more harm
than
benefiting its members. The eligibility criteria of a total
nine
years of `regular' service (4 years in JTS and 5 years in
STS)
does not allow any of our member to get the benefit. On the
other
hand conversion of 30% of the sanctioned
posts of DEs in
the
Selection Grade reduces the strength of STS posts to that
extent.
If this conversion had taken place then more than 1000
adhoc
DEs would have been reverted and no further adhoc promotion
would
have taken place since the posts of DEs were required to be
divided
in the ratio of 70:30, as stipulated in the Scheme,
between
the STS and Selection Grade STS. Thus the implementation
of
the O.M. was never in the interest of the members of this
Association.
Moreover, unless the ITS Recruitment Rules are
modified
incorporating the provisions of Selection Grade, the
DoP&T's
O.M. on the subject cannot be implemented.
In that back�
ground
and also keeping in view that in the proposed corporatised
DTO/DTS
such rules to provide selection grade etc have no place,
TESA
consciously did not further follow up the case.
This action of the same group reminds us of
their another
hollow
slogan to get the adhoc DEs absorbed in
BSNL as regular
DEs
and finally conveniently drop the slogan. Even inside the
Principal
Bench, during the course of arguments on 6.8.2002 on
the
matter of absorption in BSNL/MTNL, they agreed with others
that
an O.A praying for absorption of the adhoc DEs on regular
capacity,
which was listed for hearing along with other O.As, was
a
separate issue. This O.A was filed by a few adhoc DEs in
Hyd�
erabad
Bench of CAT and since transferred to Principal Bench
along
with other O.As. The O.A. was, accordingly, deleted by the
Court
from the list of the O.As taken up for hearing. This shows
the
true colour of this group.
There is no doubt that this group will again
drop their latest
slogan
since no clause of the DoP&T's O.M. entitles the adhoc DEs
to
get Selection Grade. BSNL has also now realised the same. It
is
reported that some people have been seen collecting money from
the
adhoc DEs, in the name of donations, giving the false hope
for
placement in the Selection Grade. What a unique way to ex�
ploit
the already frustrated seniors |
These
slogan mongers are found to pretend to show their sympa�
thy
with the causes of the adhoc DEs. This might be out of their
guilty
consciousness. After all, it is this particular group who
are
solely responsible for the present fate of the senior com�
rades.
Most of these adhoc DEs could have not only been regular
in
Group A but also would have got their promotion in JAG also,
had
this group not vehemently opposed creation of the JTS posts
as
proposed by DoT from time to time.
Let us not, therefore, be befouled by this
group. Let us not
fall
prey in their trap.