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BSNL staff stage dharna

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: Several Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees, under the aegis of Sanchar Nigam Executives’ Association (India), Karnataka Circle and All India BSNL Executives’ Association, staged a dharna here on Monday demanding that the Indian Telecom Service (ITS) cadre be absorbed immediately to ensure the survival of BSNL.

The employees have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from December 23 if BSNL does not absorb 2,000 ITS officers.

A release said that even eight years after the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) was converted to BSNL, a corporate entity, the officials have not been absorbed. “The secured salary of government and usual job in BSNL has become the policy of the ITS officers,” the release said.

Almost 3.5 lakh employees are dependent on BSNL, the sole public sector unit in the telecom sector.

However, the Government is trying to continue to keep these ITS officers on deputation duty and thereby adopting a dual policy in the process of absorption, the release said.

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