The new chaos in BSNL

Every thing around BSNL the telecom major are in a shambles. At a time when the HR of the cash strapped company must be acting as well-oiled and retrofitted lot ,slogging through the bitter and bruising battle for existence, a gruesome and deeply disconcerting news has come from Gaziabad. Mr Sukendra Pal ,the secretary of an employees union in BSNL died under mysterious circumstances at the Raj Nagar District Centre (RDC). The word in the street is that he has been beaten to death by the henchmen of a GM (Mr.Adesh Kumar)at the latter's office. The sequence of events led to a slanging match between the stake holders. The diseased it was reported has questioned the unholy economic intrigues between the officer and the contractors which in its natural turn exasperated the officer ending up in cold blooded murder. Post Morten reports point to the injury he has suffered on the head. The ghastly murder stands out in its sheer scale of hideousness and is the first in the annals of the Department.

The family of the BSNL union leader Sukhvinder Pal, who died at the Raj Nagar District Centre on October 22, has demanded a CBI probe into the matter and transfer of the case to Delhi.

"My father's murder was the result of a strong nexus of the top brass and contractors of BSNL," alleged the victim's son, Rohan. "We have lost hope of getting justice in Uttar Pradesh, so we have written letters to the PMO, NHRC and Uttar Pradesh CM demanding transfer of the case to Delhi and a full-fledged investigation by the CBI," he added.

Times Of India quotes the Station Officer of Kavi Nagar police station, Sudhir Tyagi as saying , that there were two injury marks on the deceased's body — one on the head and the second below his eyes. He said "We have received complaints from both the parties. We have registered an FIR against the GM and four others under Sections 302, 147, 148 and 149, while on the basis of the GM's complaint another FIR has been registered under Section 332 and other sections of IPC." The exact cause of death could be established only after getting the results of further examination of the viscera .

INS reports quoting Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prashant Kumar that Sukhendra Pal the diseased had been called on Monday morning by the BSNL general manager (GM) for some work-related discussion, which apparently went awry and resulted in the union leader's death. Report also says that in his blatant negation,the GM, Adesh Kumar Gupta, charged that Sukhendra Pal barged into his office, hit him on his face, tore his clothes and ransacked the office furniture.In the meantime, security guards came in and dragged Sukhendra Pal away. He scuffled with the guards and in a fit of rage, collapsed on the staircase.

The Employees Union(BSNLEU) claimed that the GM was outraged as it had earlier submitted a written complaint to the Central Vigilance Commission flagging “corrupt practices” in the branch, following which there had been a series of transfers of its members and the union had been asked to vacate its office.

The artists of violence are missing and are away from the reach out of the police even after 4 weeks have passed since the grueling episode.As the authorities grope in the dark ,the employees are on a country wide stir to book the accused.BSNL Employees Union conducted a massive rally at Ghaziabad, condemning the police and also demanding the immediate arrest of Adesh Kumar Gupta, GM, BSNL Ghaziabad, and other accused persons. More than 1500 comrades participated in the rally from each and every SSA of UP (West) Circle and also from the neighboring Haryana Circle.

Three lakh executive and non-executive employees of DoT were absorbed in BSNL when it was formed in October 2000. But the 1,600 ITS officers who hold top management posts in BSNL opted out and were allowed to continue with government status on deputation for five years in BSNL.The time limit expired in 2005. They still cling on the deputation except a very few despite four chances given to get absorbed in BSNL.

The mindless killing has been staged when the BSL is floundering and mangled by myriads of problems contributed by its own internal choes in the administration, widening the deep seated trust deficit between the officers and employees of the organization. The company is in a ship wreck facing its ever increasing problems of economic ordeal.The employees and second line executives in the hierarchy are embittered and feels the swaggering ITS ,the pantheon of gods in BSNL are riding roughshod over them ,quaffing their pint of blood.The executives and non-executives feel badly let down by the overarchingly dominating ITS Bonoparts sitting in high pedestals.The warring factions are engaged in a pathological hatred ingrained in their blood.

Sri.Namboothiri the national leader of BSNLEU says that the ITS officers are becoming more and more savages out-of-synch with the civilized society.What happened to Sukaendra Pal can befall on anyone else and is anybodies guess.The management is eager to protect their kin with all the law and justice being flouted in day light.

“It is understood now that instead of completing the repatriation process, DoT is preparing a Cabinet Note to ensure that the present ITS officers are deputed to BSNL on a permanent basis,” said V. A. N. Namboodiri, Convener of the BSNL workers’ union.

He said that the proposed move would create two categories of employees, one section who are absorbed and the other on deputation, creating much confusion, as has been seen in the case of the Air India-Indian Airlines merger.

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Malana-the lamp to the future

Malala ,a young girl in her teens is in the tidings in a scale that should make the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for global education,former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to broach her name to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel peace prize.

Malala Yousafzai,The 15 year old teenager activist is fighting for her life in the Queens Elizabeth Hospital in Burmingham following an attack on her by the Taliban "agents of Satan". The sin that she has committed is that she had worked for the education of the Muslim girls in her home city of Mingora in the Swat in west Pakistan wherein an edict of Taliban that no girls could attend school after 15 January 2009 is in force.Ziauddin Yousafzai, her father speaking after arriving in Britain to visit Malala with his wife and two sons, said that when she fell, Pakistan stood and the world rose.

Yousafzai told a press conference in Birmingham;"This is a turning point. In Pakistan, for the first time, all political parties, Urdus, Christians, Sikhs, all religions prayed for my daughter." He added: "She is not just my daughter, she is everybody's daughter.

"The doctors say that the bullet grazed her brain and traveled through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder.

Yousafzai was largely on the footsteps of her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a poet and an educational activist , running a chain of schools known as the Khushal Public School, named after a famous Pashtun poet, Khushal Khan Khattak.

She started writing diary for the BBC in Urdu in 2009 under a pseudonym"Gul Makai" on the instance of her father at a time when Taliban militants led by Maulana Fazlullah were taking over the Swat Valley, banning television, music, girls’ education.She wrote on the psychological trauma the female children in the Swath had to suffer.

Her BBC blogging identity was being revealed in articles as early as December 2009. She also began appearing on television to publicly advocate for female education.

Death threats were announced in newspapers and she began to get direct threats slammed on her door.Soon she became a celebrity in Pakistan.

In October 2011, Desmond Tutu announced Yousafzai's nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize . She was awarded Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize later in December.

Malala Yousafzai is now heading for the direct confrontation with the Taliban.

In a meeting held in the summer of 2012, Taliban leaders unanimously decided to kill her. On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai in the head while she was on her way back home after taking an exam with two classmates in north-west Pakistan.

The attempt on the girl raised furor worldwide . Public anger mounted against the shooting in several Pakistani cities the day after the attack. Pakistani officials offered a $105,000 (10 million rupee) reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers.

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World leaders unanimously denounced the attack.President Barack Obama said that news of the shooting was "reprehensible, disgusting and tragic". United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called it a "heinous and cowardly act". Pakistan's president described it as an attack on "civilized people".

The singer Madonna at a concert in Los Angeles the day of the attack announced; "This made me cry," Madonna said, "The 14-year-old schoolgirl who wrote a blog about going to school. The Taliban stopped her bus and shot her. Do you realize how sick that is?"

The United Nations has declared November 10 as 'Malala Day' in honor of the teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai."This Saturday (November 10th) will see Malala Day, a global event to show the world that people of all creeds; all sexes, all backgrounds and all countries stand behind Malala," Brown said.

After the event,the media around the world is getting increasingly polarized in to pro Taliban and Pro-American. US is emerging themselves as saviors the extend to which Taliban goes brutal . While the Malala incidence is catching up with the imaginations of the world,the atrocities on Pakistani civilian by the drone attacks are pushed to behind the curtains.The Lakhs of names of children like Vaseer, Tharique Azees are not heard by us because the predator here are the Americans. America is judge, jury and adjudicator.

Former Pak cricket captain Imran Khan says;"I have always maintained that these drone attacks are counter productive apart from violating all humanitarian laws. America is stooping lower than the Talibans".

Obama gave no indication that he would halt or alter the drone program which according to Mr Khan is an action in which "about 98 percent of those killed are either lower level militants or innocent civilians while only two percent are high level targets."

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