DEAR DRTTA BROTHERS….BEFORE SHOWERING CURSE ON US PLEASE GO THROUGH SOME FACTS
After a long war and legal fights including “Satyagrahas” in front of the Sancharbhavan in Delhi by the comrades from Kerala, the basic recruitment qualification of Technicians were made Engineering Diploma, and since 1983 recruitment has started on that basis and the process continued for TTAs in the erstwhile DoT as well as for DRTTAs in BSNL. The main motto behind it was to grab the status and salary at par with that of Diploma Engineers in other Central Government Departments ,which we could not attain through negotiations because of the adamant stand of DoT. But after a lot of litigations and pains we have achieved it through a historical order from the Hon. CAT of Kerala in 1992. That is what we ( TTAs/ DRTTAs) are enjoying now. By 1995 almost all of the Technicians were upgraded as TTAs ( fortunately no DR Tecnicians challenged the personal up gradation!!!). Even after that TTAs were not considered as a feeder cadre for JTOs.
Another hard earned( literarily hard earned!!) victory of TTAs happened in the year 1995 from Hon. CAT of Kerala giving eligibility to TTAs to attend 35% quota. DoT conducted two qualifying tests one in the year 1995 as per 1991 R/R and another one in the year 2000 as per 1996 R/R. 35% vacancies during the period of 1996-1999 were earmarked for the qualified candidates of second test (conducted in the year 2000), but DoT has wrongly filled it with the remaining left out first (1995) test qualified candidates. So the second test qualified candidates (as per 1996 RR – exam conducted in 2000) were no where accommodated. Yet we have not gone against the earlier recruited brothers who have taken away the vacancies from us. As per 1996 RR TTAs were allowed only for 35% screening test and the only one chance ever in our life was this test conducted in the year 2000. Unfortunately for us DoT was converted BSNL in the same year 2000 before giving training or posting to us.
Again struggle started. During the transition period from DoT to BSNL,The Board and the leaders of all the recognized unions of that time signed a written agreement that the pending qualified candidates of DoT would be given seniority over all the other recruits in BSNL. There were more than double the number of vacancies in the competitive quota up to 1999(13123) to accommodate the qualified TTAs which other wise would have lost for ever. But a sluggish BSNL carried over these vacancies and diverted only 500 vacancies per year from that to us which would have maximum elapsed up to 2010 to accommodate all of the remaining candidates from the second list. Any how the process continued till 2007 without any hurdles. Thus the long pending ambition which they have dreamed off at their twenties and thirties ( around 3000 TTAs) to become JTO, became a reality at least after a long waiting of 15 years. To achieve the status/salary we had to fight anumber of legal wars against DoT/BSNL by then, but never among us.
Unfortunately for the left out 2000 qualified ,trained TTAs, to shatter their dreams , the real ‘SATANS.’ started working. Even if the diversion of out side quota vacancies up to 1999 does not make any harm to DRTTAs some vested interested groups ( DRs of that cadre) used our own successors/younger brothers to file a case against the diversion process of outside quota to TTAs. The young brothers were brain washed and weaponed to fight against the seniors of their own TTA family. They challenged even the supernumerary posting laying shade (nails and stones) on the dreams of a man at his forties/fifties. The only affected party would be the DRs of that cadre (in fear of the seniority dilution) who believe in‘divide and rule’ policy, and not the DRTTAs. Young brothers/DRTTAs …as we know the tricks of that vested interested group as well as the negative attitude of the BSNL to TTA cadre we advice you not to become the weapon in their hands because we two parties will be the losers and you all may or may not become JTOs at your forties or fifties or even retire before that. As you know we all have crossed the scale of JTO and we are not loosing
financially even if we become TTAs. More over our absorption makes no additional financial burden to BSNL.
Had you not blocked the regularization, some of us could have even appeared for the SDE competitive exam and become SDEs. As DRTTAs are concerned, if they get promotion one day early it would lead to big
financial as well as seniority gain. So we advice our young brothers to settle the contempt case at Hon. Chandigharh High Court at the earliest or if possible on 23rd Nov.2011 itself and open a way to their seniors to JTO cadre either trough supernumerary posting or through personal up gradation, by sitting together with the Management so that the issue may be amicably settled and the JTO LICE may be conducted smoothly at the earliest, with less harm to both the sides .
Otherwise fight will go on in one way or the other and neither of us would fulfill their dreams. Most of us(OJTOs) are above 45 years of age and have worked as JTOs for the last six to seven years and asking us to write JTO LICE once again and sending us for the same training what we have successfully completed before a long period is like asking your elder brother or father to marry their own wife once again!!!!. More over now there are only less than 1800 OJTOs all over India waiting for a posting , out of which many of them are not qualified as per the new RR( Mechanical, Instrumentation..etc) to sit for the LICE. Imagine what would happen to them? As a family of OJTOs can we ? (the eligible) leave them and sit for
the LICE again. .NO.. never …..!!!
.. “WHY SHOULD WE FIGHT EACH OTHER TO BECOME THE SUPERVISOR OF A SINKING SHIP”.NO..WE SHOULD FIGHT TOGETHER TO BRING BACK THE GLORY TO BSNL ON A WIN - WIN SITUATION.
After a long war and legal fights including “Satyagrahas” in front of the Sancharbhavan in Delhi by the comrades from Kerala, the basic recruitment qualification of Technicians were made Engineering Diploma, and since 1983 recruitment has started on that basis and the process continued for TTAs in the erstwhile DoT as well as for DRTTAs in BSNL. The main motto behind it was to grab the status and salary at par with that of Diploma Engineers in other Central Government Departments ,which we could not attain through negotiations because of the adamant stand of DoT. But after a lot of litigations and pains we have achieved it through a historical order from the Hon. CAT of Kerala in 1992. That is what we ( TTAs/ DRTTAs) are enjoying now. By 1995 almost all of the Technicians were upgraded as TTAs ( fortunately no DR Tecnicians challenged the personal up gradation!!!). Even after that TTAs were not considered as a feeder cadre for JTOs.
Another hard earned( literarily hard earned!!) victory of TTAs happened in the year 1995 from Hon. CAT of Kerala giving eligibility to TTAs to attend 35% quota. DoT conducted two qualifying tests one in the year 1995 as per 1991 R/R and another one in the year 2000 as per 1996 R/R. 35% vacancies during the period of 1996-1999 were earmarked for the qualified candidates of second test (conducted in the year 2000), but DoT has wrongly filled it with the remaining left out first (1995) test qualified candidates. So the second test qualified candidates (as per 1996 RR – exam conducted in 2000) were no where accommodated. Yet we have not gone against the earlier recruited brothers who have taken away the vacancies from us. As per 1996 RR TTAs were allowed only for 35% screening test and the only one chance ever in our life was this test conducted in the year 2000. Unfortunately for us DoT was converted BSNL in the same year 2000 before giving training or posting to us.
Again struggle started. During the transition period from DoT to BSNL,The Board and the leaders of all the recognized unions of that time signed a written agreement that the pending qualified candidates of DoT would be given seniority over all the other recruits in BSNL. There were more than double the number of vacancies in the competitive quota up to 1999(13123) to accommodate the qualified TTAs which other wise would have lost for ever. But a sluggish BSNL carried over these vacancies and diverted only 500 vacancies per year from that to us which would have maximum elapsed up to 2010 to accommodate all of the remaining candidates from the second list. Any how the process continued till 2007 without any hurdles. Thus the long pending ambition which they have dreamed off at their twenties and thirties ( around 3000 TTAs) to become JTO, became a reality at least after a long waiting of 15 years. To achieve the status/salary we had to fight anumber of legal wars against DoT/BSNL by then, but never among us.
Unfortunately for the left out 2000 qualified ,trained TTAs, to shatter their dreams , the real ‘SATANS.’ started working. Even if the diversion of out side quota vacancies up to 1999 does not make any harm to DRTTAs some vested interested groups ( DRs of that cadre) used our own successors/younger brothers to file a case against the diversion process of outside quota to TTAs. The young brothers were brain washed and weaponed to fight against the seniors of their own TTA family. They challenged even the supernumerary posting laying shade (nails and stones) on the dreams of a man at his forties/fifties. The only affected party would be the DRs of that cadre (in fear of the seniority dilution) who believe in‘divide and rule’ policy, and not the DRTTAs. Young brothers/DRTTAs …as we know the tricks of that vested interested group as well as the negative attitude of the BSNL to TTA cadre we advice you not to become the weapon in their hands because we two parties will be the losers and you all may or may not become JTOs at your forties or fifties or even retire before that. As you know we all have crossed the scale of JTO and we are not loosing
financially even if we become TTAs. More over our absorption makes no additional financial burden to BSNL.
Had you not blocked the regularization, some of us could have even appeared for the SDE competitive exam and become SDEs. As DRTTAs are concerned, if they get promotion one day early it would lead to big
financial as well as seniority gain. So we advice our young brothers to settle the contempt case at Hon. Chandigharh High Court at the earliest or if possible on 23rd Nov.2011 itself and open a way to their seniors to JTO cadre either trough supernumerary posting or through personal up gradation, by sitting together with the Management so that the issue may be amicably settled and the JTO LICE may be conducted smoothly at the earliest, with less harm to both the sides .
Otherwise fight will go on in one way or the other and neither of us would fulfill their dreams. Most of us(OJTOs) are above 45 years of age and have worked as JTOs for the last six to seven years and asking us to write JTO LICE once again and sending us for the same training what we have successfully completed before a long period is like asking your elder brother or father to marry their own wife once again!!!!. More over now there are only less than 1800 OJTOs all over India waiting for a posting , out of which many of them are not qualified as per the new RR( Mechanical, Instrumentation..etc) to sit for the LICE. Imagine what would happen to them? As a family of OJTOs can we ? (the eligible) leave them and sit for
the LICE again. .NO.. never …..!!!
.. “WHY SHOULD WE FIGHT EACH OTHER TO BECOME THE SUPERVISOR OF A SINKING SHIP”.NO..WE SHOULD FIGHT TOGETHER TO BRING BACK THE GLORY TO BSNL ON A WIN - WIN SITUATION.
