The Govt. has come down heavily on our fraternal friends in the oils sector struggling to get the justified pay scales recommended by the 2nd pay panel committee implemented. The recommendations of the 2nd pay panel have been mercilessly and brutally slaughtered by the all powerful, irrational and senseless bureaucracy of the Govt. of India. Comprehensive job undertaken by the 2nd pay panel to finalize its recommendations relating to pay scales and other related issues of officers of CPSUs in the most scientific and meticulous manner by involving all the experts and professionals from different wings of management, man power deployment and utilization, finance etc. and taking very vital inputs from various renowned consultants has been thrown to the dustbins by the feudal lords, the bureaucrats in the Govt. This job of finalizing the recommendations which was conducted by the 2nd Pay panel in a truly professional manner, taking into considerations all the aspects of critical role of CPSUs in building a formidable national economy and immensely contributing towards building up of strategic developmental and growth oriented infrastructure has been completely watered down by a group of Secretaries completely devoid of scientific analysis and sense.

This painstaking and scientific work of the 2nd pay panel spreading over 18 months has been totally diluted by the vested interest bureaucracy in the Govt. in just two sittings.         
Now when the officers of the oil sector have raised their legitimate voice against mighty bureaucracy for their highly irrational and senseless acts, the Govt., instead of going into the crux of the matter to resolve the justified issues, has preferred to invoke repressive colonial draconian laws like ESMA to crush a legitimate, peaceful and democratic struggle. The repressive measures invoked by the Govt. deserve condemnation of the highest order in the most unequivocal terms. It is an attack on legitimate trade union activities on which pillars of democracy are erected. It is ridiculous on the part of the Government to resort to such repressive colonial measures to crush what can be safely termed as legitimate and justified struggle to expose the misdeeds of the bureaucracy in the Govt.
Thus, Comrades, it is the bounden duty of each and every Comrade of MEA to out rightly condemn these repressive measures of the Govt. in the strongest possible manner, thereby conveying it to the Govt. that under no circumstances can this Association allow the Govt. to let loose any kind of repressive measures to slaughter legitimate and just trade union activities by invoking repressive colonial measures in the name of maintaining essential services.

We thus appeal to our Area Sec./Div Sec and activists of the Organization at all the levels to send following Savingram immediately to the Hon’ble PM of India. 
MEA/-------Area/--------Division/---------Unit of MTNL   dated  09th Jan.,09.
 

To
Respected Sh. Manmohan Singh Ji,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India,
New Delhi.
Respected Sir,
The members of MEA, -------Area/-------Division/----------Unit of MTNL strongly and unequivocally condemn the dastardly and repressive measures let loose by the Govt. in the form of unwarranted arrests, dismissals and suspension of hundreds of officers of the Oil Sector struggling legitimately and democratically to secure justice denied to them by irrational and vested interest bureaucracy of Govt. of India. The officers of the Oil sector are genuinely and seriously agitated over the arbitrary and high handed manner in which the mighty bureaucracy of the Govt. completely diluted the meticulous and scientific recommendations of the 2nd pay panel constituted by the Govt. to decide pay scales and other related issues of officers of CPSUs. Letting loose of draconian colonial repressive measures to curb and crush democratic trade union movement reminds us of dark Colonial days of the mighty British Empire. We urge upon your Hon’ble self and make a fervent appeal to you to stop the repressive measures forthwith and initiate process of reconciliation not only to restore normalcy but also address the critical and significant issues raised by our agitating fraternal friends from the oil sector failing which we shall be constrained to immediately and actively join our fraternal comrades of the oil sector in their just and legitimate struggle.
Yours Faithfully,
(……………..)

Copy to: 
1. Sh. Murli Deoria, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi, for spontaneous n/a please. 
2. Sh. R. S. Pandey, Secretary for petroleum and Natural Gas, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi, for spontaneous n/a please. 
3. Sh. A. Raja, Hon’ble MOC&IT, Electronics Niketan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, for kind information please.               
4. Sh. Siddharth Behura, Secy/DOT, 20 Ashoka Road, Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi-1, for kind information please. 
5. Sh. R. S. P. Sinha, CMD MTNL, MTNL Hqs, Jeewan Bharti Building,Janpath, New Delhi, for kind information please.