Implement proposals on recruitment, demand power staff

Our Correspondent

NURPUR, AUGUST 25

Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd (HPSEBL) employees’ union has urged the Board management to implement recommendations of the eight-member special committee, constituted by it on August 8, 2017. The committee was headed by the chief engineer of central zone, Mandi, and was assigned the job to explore and recommend new staffing pattern in the operation wing of HPSEBL.

Kuldeep Singh Kharwara, state president of the union, in a statement issued here on Sunday, said the committee had submitted its report to the Board management about a year ago but it had failed to implement the same.

Expressing concern over the declining workforce in the operation wing of HPSBL, Kharwara lamented that at present, the board had only 7,000 technical employees, while the number was 10,050 in 1991, when electricity consumers were 10 lakh across the state whereas the strength of consumers had now touched a new high of 22 lakh. As many as 1,800 employees were retiring from the board with each passing year.

“The decline in technical workforce and invariable rise in the burden has made the life of employees stressful, causing frequent mishaps,” he rued. Following persistent demands, the Board management had agreed to convene a meeting with the employees union on September 9, in which the union would present its demand of implementation of recommendations of the committee, Kharwara added.