Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 17: In a major development, the long pending demand of JPDCL employees was fulfilled as Chief Engineer, Distribution JPDCL today issued regularization order of 190 daily rated workers.
Managing Director JPDCL Shiv Anant Tayal said that 190 employees of JPDCL whose regularization was long pending and was already approved vide 78th and 79th Divisional Level Departmental Promotion Committee meeting held on 15-07-2019 and 09-02-2021, respectively, have been promoted and adjusted today.
He said that out of 190 daily wagers, 83 daily rated workers could not be regularized earlier because of age and qualification bar. However, the Lieutenant Governor of UT of J&K Manoj Sinha in a special gesture approved one time relaxation of these criteria so that these daily rated workers could be regularized.
He said that JPDCL is committed to resolve all the issues of the employees and steps are being taken to sort out the genuine grievances of the Power employees.
Giving detail of the promoted employees he said that 107 daily rated workers have been regularized after their names were recommended by the Departmental Promotion Committee in 2019. He added that 17 daily rated workers have been promoted as Junior Assistants after qualifying the type test which was conducted by the department.
The MD also said that DPC meetings shall now be conducted on regular basis and the daily rated workers shall be regularized as and when there is vacancy in the department. Other issues such opening up of the NIC portal for registering the left out need based workers on the portal for the purpose of drawl of salary shall also be taken up expeditiously as the administration is serious about resolving all the genuine grievances of the Power Employees and all steps shall be taken in future also to sort out the burning issues.
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