JE, lineman suspended for not replacing burnt transformer of farmer

Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi

Hoshiarpur, May 22

Three employees, including a lineman, a JE and a JE-1 of the PSPCL faced the brunt of CMD for not taking action over farmer’s complaint of burnt transformer.

As per PSPCL’s policy, they were supposed to resolve transformer malfunction complaints in 48 hours. The CMD of PSPCL asked Hoshiarpur Deputy Chief Engineer Parvinder Singh Khamba to take action. He has suspended a JE and a lineman posted in Bhangala, while departmental action has been ordered against the office incharge JE-1. The tranformer was too replaced within an hour.

According to the information received, the transformer connected to the tubewell of a farmer of Bhangala area had some fault on May 17. The farmer lodged a complaint with the concerned Bhangala office of PSPCL. A lineman, Talwinder Singh, was sent from the office to check the fault. He went there and found that the transformer was burnt. Even after this, no action was taken.

The farmer also complained to JE Rashpal Singh in this regard but no action was taken. On May 20, the concerned farmer went to the Bhangala office and informed the officer incharge of the Bhangala office, JE-1 Yogesh Kumar. Even after this, no action was taken even on the next day. The farmer explained his problem on the phone to the CMD of PSPCL. The CMD immediately instructed Parvinder Singh Khamba to take action regarding this.

Khamba told The Tribune that he received instructions in this regard from the CMD at 3.30 pm on Friday and the transformer was replaced within an hour. During investigation, it was revealed that the accused lineman and JE did not even report the malfunction of the said transformer in the online system of the department. “The lineman, Talwinder Singh, has been suspended and his headquarter has been shifted to Bhogpur while JE Rashpal Singh has been suspended and his headquarter has shifted to Mahilpur. Departmental action has been ordered against Yogesh Kumar”, told Khamba.