Pensioners seek disbursement of arrears of revised pay scales

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The meeting was presided over by its president, Maan Singh. While addressing forum members, pensioners’ forum state vice-president Pawan Mohal said the board management had not even released gratuity and leave encashment dues to the pensioners and demanded immediate disbursement of all financial benefits to them.

“The HPSEBL is deducting monthly pension from commuted pension for 15 years whereas the states of neighbouring Punjab and Haryana have respectively fixed the period to 10 and 8 years. The 15-year pension deduction is causing financial loss to the board pensioners,” he said.

Slamming the board management for abolishing significant posts of employees of different categories under the pretext of the rationalisation of services, the forum said the HP electricity board, which had a strength of 43,000 employees for merely nine lakh electricity consumers in 1990 across the state had declined to 12,000 against the present enhanced consumers’ count that had crossed 20 lakhs.

The forum also expressed its resentment over the frequent mishaps of technical employees in the state due to their working stress with overworking.