Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 6: J&K Central Non-Gazetted Electric Employees Union (CNGEEU) today said that the Power Development Department (PDD) and Power Development Corporation (PDC) have been facing a lot of problems due to the shortage of staff and both require strengthening of the system.
Addressing a press conference, Parshotam Sharma, State General Secretary, said that in 1981 reorganization, hardly 60 per cent of the department was effected while several areas remained untouched, since then a lot of infrastructure has been added but the field divisions remained unable to run the system properly.
He pointed out that a station where atleast 10 to 12 men are required, hardly 2 to 3 men are made available to run the system. Field staff is also under pressure due to vast area of responsibility allotted to them, the daily wagers in PDD and PDC in overall the State are mostly running the system, but they too, are being discriminated against and require regularization in addition to appointment of about three times more staff members, Sharma added.
The union demanded reorganization of PDD according to present requirements and requested all the employees of PDD and PDC to observe “Kaam Chhoro Hartal” on May 8 and 9, in order to boost the morale of the struggling employees and to remind the Government of the agreement made with JCC members.
Further the leaders of the association have requested all the employees to remain united until the struggle leads to its logical conclusion. The leaders further informed that the operational staff of all emergency services would remain exempted from the hartal.
Among others present were Mohd Aslam Choudhary, provincial president, Mohd Ayub Chouhan, Des Raj, Suresh Sharma, Farooq Ahmed Bhat, Sanjay Sharma, Hamid Paul, Nazar Hussain, Raj Kumar, Gurnam Singh Slathia and Surjeet Khajuria, district presidents.
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