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ITSA`s protest rally on MTNL CMD appt; sends memorandum to PM
New Delhi, Oct 30: The issue of proposed appointment of MTNL Chairman and Managing Director today gathered steam with a section of telecom officers staging a protest march against the appointment and seeking the intervention of the Prime Minister in the matter.
New Delhi, Oct 30: The issue of proposed appointment
of MTNL Chairman and Managing Director today gathered steam
with a section of telecom officers staging a protest march
against the appointment and seeking the intervention of the
Prime Minister in the matter.
Telecom employees under the aegis of Indian Telecom
Service Association, Sanchar Nigam Executive Association and
MTNL Executive Association gathered at MTNL's Eastern Court
office and proceeded to Prime Minister's office to submit a
memorandum criticising the proposed appointment of R S P
Sinha, who stands on the top of public enterprise selection
board (PESB's) list of recommended candidates to head MTNL.
"We have been given to understand that the matter of the appointment of Chairman and Managing Director of MTNL has been sent by dot, thereby recommending the name of ineligible person for approval of the appointments committee of the cabinet, as the post is falling vacant on October 31, 2003," the memorandum said.
ITSA decried PESB's recommendations saying that it tantamounted to accommodating a non-telecom officer for the post of MTNL CMD.
It claimed that PESB's recommendations were grossly in violation of eligibility and experience criteria framed by the cabinet, which could be changed only by the cabinet itself.
"We request your intervention urgently in the matter so that the error committed by PESB is rectified and Navratna PSUs like MTNL is not ruined in the national interest," it said.
Bureau Report
"We have been given to understand that the matter of the appointment of Chairman and Managing Director of MTNL has been sent by dot, thereby recommending the name of ineligible person for approval of the appointments committee of the cabinet, as the post is falling vacant on October 31, 2003," the memorandum said.
ITSA decried PESB's recommendations saying that it tantamounted to accommodating a non-telecom officer for the post of MTNL CMD.
It claimed that PESB's recommendations were grossly in violation of eligibility and experience criteria framed by the cabinet, which could be changed only by the cabinet itself.
"We request your intervention urgently in the matter so that the error committed by PESB is rectified and Navratna PSUs like MTNL is not ruined in the national interest," it said.
Bureau Report