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SANCHAR NIGAM EXECUTIVES’ ASSOCIATION [INDIA]
MAHARASHTRA CIRCLE
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SANCHAR NIGAM EXECUTIVES’ ASSOCIATION (INDIA)
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No. SNEA (I)/MH/Cir Corr/2011-2013/36 Dated 12 th March 2013.
To,
Shri. V. K. Mahendra,
Chief General Manager Telecom, MH Circle,
6 th Floor, Admn Complex, Juhu Road,
Santacruz (W), Mumbai-400054.
Sub: Request for cancellation of posting of Mr H V Sovani PS to PGMT Pune and
immediate action against him for using his official position for personal benefits
by adopting all illegal methods for continuous five years for his retention at Pune
and now for change of posting from Ratnagiri to Circle Office Mumbai.
Ref: 1. Our Letter No. SNEA (I)/MH/Cir Corr/2011-2012/9 Dated 27 th July 2011.
2. BSNL CO Letter No. 400-57/2012-Pers.I Dated 21 st Mar 12-Instructions on misconduct.
3. Our Letter No. SNEA (I)/MH/Cir Corr/2011-2012/24 Dated 22 nd March 2012.
Respected Sir,
Vide letters under reference 1 & 3; SNEA (I) Maharashtra Circle has brought to
your kind notice that how some individual officers from Pune are managing their
retention at Pune for years together and how the BSNL management support such
mischievous officers. We are sorry to say that such shameful acts by shameful
executives are being supported by Circle management which is very tough with all
other officers including senior level officers.
We will put here classic example of Mr. H.V. Sovani who is presently working as
PS to PGMT Pune which is illegal post and his duty is to carry out the works of
Personal Assistant in pay scale of Sr SDE. We have already brought to your notice that
so many PS are idle rather without any work & are compelled to work at lower grade of
PA and one SDE level officer is posted to work as PS. Pune SSA has history that person
posted as PS becomes so great “chamacha” and takes over grief of PGMT Pune that it
appears that PS is acting in powers of PGMT Pune. This has been experienced by
executives and staff of Pune and specially while allotment of IQs Mr Sovani was much
biased and there are lot of complaints about him but Pune management has not taken
any action in any of the complaint as Mr. Sovani used his expertise in settlement of the
complaints well in advance. A detail inquiry in allotments of IQs will prevail truth and
facts.
M. S. Adasul,
Circle Secretary
PH- (O) 022- 26467386, Mobile. 9423082352.
E-Mail: sneamh@gmail.com.
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It is important here that Mr. Sovani is long stayed officer in Pune since 2008. He
was first transferred out of Pune in March 2008 to Ratnagiri and since then he has
adopted all illegal tactics for his retention at Pune and management of Pune and Circle
office is supporting all his illegal activities. Just look at his transfer orders and its
cancellation will give clear picture how senior officers in BSNL are helpless and how
Mr. Sovani is powerful and handling all senior officers, first for his retention at Pune
for continuous Five years and after five years to change his posting from Ratnagiri to
Circle office when all other officers are not given chance just to listen their grievances.
1. The first transfer order of Shri. H.V.Sovani, was issued in Dec 2008 vide
transfer order no- A/STA/AE-20/TES Gr B/IDT/2008/25 Dated 8/12/2008 and
Mr. Sovani was transferred to Sangli. But Pune admn relived all other officers;
name of Mr. Sovani was excluded from list of relived officers. Even though all
other officers including women comrades were relived and forced to join new
assignment since Dec 2008 then Mr Sovani is retained at Pune SSA till date by
repeated orders, its cancellation and retention at Pune, then change of posting
that to be without any specific reason as per transfer policy guidelines and just
to favor him to recognize his personal services.
2. Then again vide circle office order no- A/STB/AE-20/SDE/TFR/37 Dated
23/04/2010, again, Shri. H.V.Sovani was transferred to Ratnagiri, but again he
was not relived. No retention orders were issued by the circle, but PGMT, Pune
in his own capacity, misusing the powers of CGMT, MH circle has issued their
retention till 31 December 2010, vide Pune AGM orders no- PTA/SE-386/TES
GR B Dated 01/07/2010, still after that they are not relieved till date.
3. As per the orders no A/STB/AE-20/SDE/TFR/II/37 & 38 DATED 18/03/2011,
the SDE’s were relieved by admin of Pune SSA vide orders no- PTA/SE-
386/TRANSFERS (Executives)/11 dated 20/04/2011 including Mr Sovani but
practically he was not relived from Pune even though circle office records were
updated as if he is relived. These orders are just to show the Circle Office that
the official has been relived from Pune in order to save the face of Pune
management in the Circle management meeting.
4. These are only classic examples and there are so many other cases wherein Mr.
Sovani has taken personal advantage of his post as PS to PGMT Pune.
5. Now after retention of five years in Pune, when he was to be relieved by 31 st
March 2013, Mr. H V Sovani has written letter addressed to you wherein he has
cried foul that he was not given chance to exercise the option on posting after
long stay. He has further mentioned that his daughter has completed BE and
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coming years she will get admission in IIT Mumbai. He has not mentioned any
other justified ground in his letter and we are surprised to know that same is
directly approved by you and staff section has immediately issued orders well in
advance.
6. This is limit of malpractices by Mr. H. V. Sovani and we are surprised to see
that on the name that daughter of Mr. Sovani is getting admission for ITI
Mumbai his case is approved wherein so many other cases with such
background are pending in Maharashtra Circle and not considered by your
office. Even the reasons for which provision exists in transfer policy are ignored
and Mr. Sovani is favored by giving undue advantage.
SNEA (I) Maharashtra has always opposed such malpractices by some
individuals in Pune and with our letters all other executives who were adopting illegal
practices are now transferred except super power man Mr. Sovani who last year
managed his retention at Pune with political support and his retention is valid up to
31 st March 2013. We have received information from Pune that he was challenging to
in Pune that he is having direct relation with Shri. V. K. Mahindra & he have done lot
for you since last four years & he will be saved from this transfer also as you have
saved him in all earlier cases and at any cost he will not join Ratnagiri. We kept quiet
assuming that you are strong enough and your image is of Mr. Clean, and will not
come in blackmailing trap of Mr. Sovani, but it is unfortunate that we are wrong and
results shows that whatever he was saying is true.
But during last year Mr. Sovani adopted all the ways for his retention at Pune by
applying to WTR, WTP, ITPC Pune and recently for Wireless Nodal Centre Pune. But
BSNL Corporate Office did not consider his any of the request but Maharashtra Circle
management is helplessly issuing his retention in Pune for continuous five years and
now by adopting extreme shameless way his request for exercising his option for
posting on transfer under longest stay is accepted by Circle management that to be
in case of only for Mr. Sovani after completion of five years and not for any other
comrade including ladies comrades.
When the matter was brought to our notice by our Pune comrades we have
taken up matter with GM HR & Admn Mumbai who was firm enough and he himself
has protested such illegal idea and he informed us that anyhow Mr Sovani will have to
join Ratnagiri SSA and Circle office will not change his posting. But it has also came
under pressure created by Mr. Sovani perhaps may be through your good self and you
have used your supreme power and now changed posting on transfer from Ratnagiri to
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Circle Office. SNEA (I) Maharashtra strongly condemns such misuse of powers and
extreme misuse of personal relations in official position for illegal works and
personal benefits by Mr. Sovani and its support by the circle management under
your leadership.
Sir, since March 2008, about five years have passed and more than 150 officers
are transferred out of Pune on the name of longest stay which includes comrades
having very genuine reasons on family grounds. Some of officers who were having very
hard family problems have left Pune alone and faced lot of problems by maintaining
dual establishment, some of officers were forced to spoil the carrier of their children by
keeping themselves away from family during crucial educational period, some
individual were having medical problems, but your office did not listen to cry of any
one and transferred all of them without any mercy except Mr. Sovani. In recent
orders all ladies officers are also transferred to different corners of Maharashtra and
some of officers are posted to Gadchiroli at extreme difficult posting in BSNL. Your
office has not shown any mercy to these ladies comrades even who are widow and
having no one to take care of their children at Pune and were forced to join tenure
stations alone. We have seen that Circle Office has not shown any mercy to
anyone else for retention at Pune except Mr. Sovani. No doubt Sir, in the retention
of Mr. Sovani at Pune your good self has helped him lot in these five years and now
your use of VETO Power for posting of Mr. Sovani in Circle Office Mumbai has
created unrest among all executives in Maharashtra Circle.
Sir, we are unable to understand a clean person like you is taking such illegal
decision and is forced to use Veto Power & it makes us to feel that Mr. Sovani is
blackmailing you by using some your personal information available with him or by
bringing pressure from sources which are controlling you. Otherwise Mr. Clean like
you will not have dared to take such illegal decision that to be when few days are left
for the retirement and support illegal activities continued by Mr. Sovani for last five
years by using his official position. We know being your PS as PGMT Pune he may
have done some of your personal works and he may have gained some personal
information and this should have been secrete and it should not have resulted in
Official Dealing in illegal way.
We have discussed this issue with your good self on 8 th March 2013 and you
have assured for corrective action even though you have justification that one JTO is
being transferred from Mumbai to Pune so Mr. Sovani is transferred to Mumbai in her
place. We never expected such childish explanation from highest authority of
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Maharashtra Circle because Mr Sovani is SDE and there cannot be mutual between
JTO and SDE.
Surprisingly your office has intentionally neglected the waiting list register
maintained for transparency in transfers and posting in which request of Mrs. N.M.
Mahadik JTO from Pune is pending for Circle Office since Oct 2012. If it was just
mutual transfer it should have been between two JTOs and Mrs. Mahadik should have
been posted to Circle Office and not Mr. Sovani as approved by you and followed
without any query by your office. Your office has not given any consideration of request
of Com. A.K. Yadav JTO Chandrapur who is having serious family medical problems
and serving in naxlite affected area since last seven years and all of sudden name of
Mr. Sovani is inserted in the transfer list by giving illegal preference and his order is
issued for Circle Office. This is serious violation of transfer policy guidelines and it
happened due to misuse of official position by Mr. Sovani and its is supported by
administration under your leadership.
It can be seen that since last 2-3 years about 13 JTOs & 11 SDEs have
requested for own cost request transfer to Circle Office, but your office has never
given any consideration to any request quoting that there are excess executives
in Circle Office and what happened that Mr. Sovani is being transferred to Circle
Office that to be in interest of service by violating basic principles of transfer
policy and spoiling transferency maintained by Circle Office for long time.
Mr. Sovani is working in Pune from his entry in the Department i.e.
03/11/1980 and you are well aware that in entire span of 33 years of service he has
never served out of Pune City. He has managed his posting and escaped from rural
transfers by adopting such illegal practices and lifelong he is working in higher HRA
area. It is important that he has done nothing special or exceptional except booking
air/rail tickets for senior officers, reserving BSNL IQs for special person by depriving
BSNL officers/employees for their right of getting IQ at Pune and doing private works
of some individual officers at Pune, and officers coming to Pune on personal tour. Out
of these works, none of work will justify his retention for five years and now very
special favour by changing his posting to Circle Office Mumbai from Ratnagiri that to
be after retention for five years in 30 % HRA area.
Since last five years many of the officers transferred to Pune from Ratnagiri were
not relived as Mr. Sovani was substitute for them. Each and every officer who has
completed tenure for which Mr. Sovani was substitute was not relived as Mr. Sovani
did not joined and managed his retention at Pune. In March 2008 Mr. Kapare was
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transferred along with Mr. Sovani to Ratnagiri, Mr. Kapare obeyed orders and joined
Ratnagiri and Mr. Sovani managed his retention. When Mr. Kapare completed his
tenure of two years in Years then Mr. Sovani was his substitute. But this time also Mr.
Sovani was successful in managing his retention and Mr. Kapare was forced to serve
for more than three years at Ratnagiri tenure station.
Sir, your office has not yet shown any mercy to officers serving to remote areas
like Jalna, Buldhana, Osmanabad and about 35 officers are still waiting for justice.
Their requests are neglected by Circle management that they have not completed seven
years in service in that SSA. The difficulties faced by all these comrades and their
family members are neglected by Circle management under your leadership even
though they are facing much more problems than Mr. Sovani. We would like to put on
records that your office has forcibly transferred some officers from locations like
Parbhani, Osmanabad, Dhule where their acute of executives in all cadres on the name
of transfer policy guidelines and transparent working. Your office was so cruel in some
of cases that concerned executives were forced to take untimely VRS but not helped by
Circle management. No one is able to understand under what circumstances the
request of Mr. Sovani is considered with assumption that his daughter will get
admission in IIT Mumbai for M Tech before entrance examination is taken by IIT.
But all these transfer policy guidelines and transparency in working is moulded
in a shameful approach in case of Mr. Sovani. Sir this is not first time that he is
favoured out of turn by you, but our Pune unit has brought to our notice such earlier
incidents when Mr. Sovani was favoured by your good self for reasons best known to
you.
It to bring to your notice that in a recent letter No. 400-57/2012-Pers.I Dated
21 st March 2012 from BSNL Corporate Office which is endorsement of DoT orders for
taking serious view on the political and VIP pressure and treating it as misconduct on
behalf of employee. It is evident that Mr. Sovani is expert in such practise and your
office also has given undue consideration may be due to involvement of such VIP
person is such cases and at least this time your office. It is need of time that action is
initiated against Mr. Sovani for such VIP and political pressure as misconduct as per
BSNL CDA rules and latest guidelines issued by letter under reference 2 by BSNL CO.
When such officers become successful, in managing their transfers it becomes
precedence and BSNL CO & DoT is compelled to issue such instructions. We hope you
will take serious note of illegal ways, unethical means adopted by Mr Sovani for
retention at Pune & change of posting to Mumbai with fake justification and give clear
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signals to others for such unofficial means and ways and at the same time you will
take care to settle mass unrest among the executive community in entire Maharashtra
Circle for such “chamchagiri” practices.
Sir, our members would like to know what are the special expertise of Mr Sovani
and what are special works done by him in the interest of company so that he is given
out of way treatment by Pune SSA and your esteemed office, so that all other officers
will take expertise training from him and will follow their steps for saving their
transfers and BSNL will get more “chamchas” in competition with Mr. Sovani. Please
provide us this valuable information for motivation of our members.
We have already demanded special inquiry in case of favoritism to Mr.
Sovani in out of way, which we doubt has serious financial involvement without
which it is not possible to have such out of track setting. However, since last two
years, no action has been taken by your office on this letter, which gives scope to
doubt that someone from your office is also involved in such malpractices. We
again demand to have detail inquiry on the transferred managed by Mr. Sovani
and the officers who helped him in such malpractices and involvement of
finincail dealings such illegal transfers and out of way favoritism. We further like
to know what action was been taken against Mr. Sovani when he has brought
political pressure during last year for his retention at Pune by violating BSNL
CDA rules and latest guidelines issued by BSNL CO.
We have doubt that Mr. Sovani is dealing some financial dealings
unofficially with some officers and hence demand for inquiry of assets of Mr.
Sovani and officers linked to him. It is further requested to make public all the
requests made by Mr. Sovani along with relevant documents and office remarks
in note sheets on the files in which his transfer orders are issued cancelled,
modified but not implemented during last five years.
Hoping for immediate cancellation of transfer order of Mr. Sovani issued for
Circle Office and give clear signal that Circle management in your leadership will not
tolerate such unethical ways and assure for transparency in dealing with HR Issues.
OR
If it is not possible to cancel transfer of Mr. Sovani to Circle office, due to special
obligation done by Mr. Sovani or pressure created by Mr. Sovani cannot be sustained
by you during last 20 days of your service, then please consider all other pending
request transfer of executives to Circle Office and maintain transparency and give
justice to the all other comrades.
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It is also requested to show such special approach as shown to Mr. Sovani for
other comrades waiting for long time for their transfers to choice station and presently
servicing at very difficult conditions and with lots of family problems and give them
justice.
We are confident that you will maintain your image of Mr. Clean and will not
involve yourself in such illegal transfers and show courage to sustain pressure created
or any type of inveiglement by Mr. Sovani for his personal benefits and keep roadmap
with lesson to all such corrupt offices and let our executives and employees know that
you never tolerated such corrupt practices and Circle management is till clean and
transparent in dealing with transfers.
Sincerely Yours,
M. S. Adasul
Circle Secretary,
SNEA (I) Maharashtra.
Copy to Shri. G. Jayaraman, GM HR & Admn MH Circle Mumbai for kind information
and expecting his clear stand supporting transfer policy which he has maintained
during his long services of more than seven years as GM HR & Admn Mumbai.
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