By Samamchar Vishesh
News
Chandigarh 20th September:- The Electricity
Employees of Chandigarh under the banner of the U.T. Powermen Union, Chandigarh
today i.e. on dated 20.09.2019 held massive protest rallies before the
electricity offices of Sector-15, 20, 23, Chandigarh. The rallies were held
against the proposal of Chandigarh Administration to privatize the pro/fit
earning and well running U.T. Electricity Wing of Engineering Department,
Chandigarh and also against the negative and adamant attitude of the authorities
of the Engineering Department, Chandigarh towards the long pending genuine
demands of the electricity employees.
Gopal Datt Joshi, General Secretary of the Union and federation while
addressing the rallies before the various offices strongly criticize the
privatization policy of govt. of India and said that on one side Govt. of India
time and again highlighting that only sick public sector /power sector which
are in loss will be privatized but contrary to the statements and decisions of
Govt. of India the Chandigarh Administration is privatizing the well running
and profit making U.T. Electricity Department Chandigarh and implementing the
failed structure like Orissa, Enron (Maharashtra) and Andhra Pradesh etc. One
of other reason of privatizing of power sector was huge loss of SEBs which was
Rs. 26000 Crores before the unbundling which was increased now to Rs. 10 Lakh
Crore. But even inspite of 100% shortage
of staff and acute shortage of material the Chandigarh Electricity
Department is earning approx.. Rs. 100 crores of profit. The department accredited as best
utility in the country by the JERC and bagged the tag consistently for last 5
years. Most profit earning department never went into loss despite having no
generation and compromising on contribution of states only. Best consumer
services despite huge shortage of staff. Ratio of disposal of public grievances
is much less than the standards fixed by the JERC. Line losses to the tune of
9% to 10% only, which is an example for the states. Achieved the proficiency
level to the tune of 99.99% as per target fixed by JERC and G.O.I. Metered
supply to the tune of 95% including slum / rural area. Minimum power outages in
comparison to states. Regulating all the power outages and broadcast system of
outages to the public domain, thus there is no need to privatize the department
and demand that high level enquiry of the episode for which tenders are being
floated time and again.
Dhian Singh,
Acting President, Amrik Singh, Joint Secretary, Raj Pal, Secretary, Gurmeet
Singh, Kashmir Singh and other leaders equally criticized the authorities of
the Electricity Department for their negative attitude towards the genuine
demands of the employees and blamed that the authorities remained fail to
implement the most urgent demands like filling up of vacant posts, amendments
in recruitment rules, grant of 9/16/23 Years time bound promotional scales and
implementation of DC rates to ALMs engaged through outsource agencies beside
others and further blame that the authorities instead of implementing the
demands are promoting deputations in U.T. Electricity Department, Chandigarh
and also trying to adjust Asstt. Engineers and Junior Engineers from states of
Punjab and Haryana ignoring legitimate promotional rights of U.T. Cadre Junior
Engineers and Asstt. Engineers and strongly demand that to withdraw the penal
for deputation failing which union will lodge strong protest. Sukhwinder Singh,
Ranjit Singh, Paramjit Singh and other leaders of concerned sub divisions also
addressed the rally and appealed the employees to participate in massive
protest dharna on 24-09-2019 being held before the Electricity Office,
Sector-17, Chandigarh.
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