PSPCL pensioners want 6th pay panel implemented

Tribune News Service

Patiala, December 10

Pensioners of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) held a protest here today. The pensioners submitted a memorandum to the government demanding the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission along with their other demands.

Dhanwant Singh, state general secretary of the Pensioners’ Association, Punjab State Power and Transmission Corporation Limited, said the demands of the pensioners include implementing the Sixth Pay Commission, granting power connections, re-implementing cashless treatment scheme, giving appropriate place for field units of the association, providing due of daily allowance of about 22 months among others.

He said: “We will intensify our protest if the state government fails to address our issues”.

State president Avinash Sharma said the government and the corporation leaders had held a number of meetings. He said the same demands of pensioners in Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh had been fulfilled, but their demands were ignored by the state government.

The pensioners started a march toward the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, but the police stopped them at the Fountain Chowk.

RP Pandove, administrative director of the PSPCL, reached the spot to collect the memorandum from the protesters. He said a meeting to redress their demands would be held after code of conduct ends.

The leaders alleged that the PSPCL does not spend on the welfare of the pensioners, while other works of the corporation continue without hindrance.