Employees of three power corporations begin protest

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, April 27

Uttarakhand Urja Kamghar Sangathan agitated employees wore black ribbons on arms today to register protest against the state government.

The agitators threatened to intensify their agitation if the government did not take action to fulfil their year-long pending demands.

Addressing agitators, Rakesh Sharma, state president, Uttarakhand Urja Kamghar, expressed concern that department officials had given false assurances that their demands would be fulfilled soon.

He said that members had started registering protest against the state government and the protest will continue till their demands were fulfilled by the state government.

Sharma said that agitated members will take out a protest rally to register resentment against the state government and demonstrate at the secretariat on May 15.

He said power employees from electricity transmission, generation and distribution companies will participate in the protest rally.

He said timely promotion, grade-pay, reformation of staff structure, cashless medical facility, filling vacant posts, promotion of technicians to assistant engineers etc. are few pending demands of the association.

According to him, the agitated members submitted a memorandum highlighting their demands to Chief Minister Harish Rawat and other officials but to no avail.

The agitated employees of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited participated in the protest.

AP Amoli, Vijay Bisht, Deepak Beniwal, Sushil Sharma, Anoop Bisht, Jaipal Singh, Gopal Bihari, Sanjeev Kumar and others were present.