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IANS | 16 Mar, 2023
The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) management has made
elaborate arrangements to deal with power employees' proposed 72-hour
token strike from midnight on Thursday.
The strike is in
response to the call given by the UP Power Employees Joint Action
Committee (JAC) to press its demand for implementation of the December
3, 2022 agreement.
UP Energy Minister A.K. Sharma, while adopting
a tough stance on the strike, said the power employees found disrupting
power supply would face the consequences.
Power employees are
demanding the removal of the UPPCL Chairman, rollback plan for
privatisation of the power sector, and restoration of the old pension
scheme.
Over 50,000 power employees, mostly contractual
employees, have staged protest demonstrations at district headquarters
across the state.
Joint Action Committee convener Shailendra
Dubey said the Energy Minister had entered into a written agreement with
the JAC on December 3 last year and had assured to fulfil all the
demands. He said no action had been taken by the UPPCL for accepting the
demands during the last three months.
Dubey said that all the
employees and engineers of the power corporation would proceed on a
72-hour token strike on the night of March 16 as the talks with the
Energy Minister had failed on Tuesday.
He said that the UPPCL was
not honouring the agreement signed on December 3. The agreement,
according to him, promised, among other things, time-bound pay scales,
widening of the scope of cashless treatment and brake on any action
regarding privatisation.
The agreement that the employees signed
with the UPPCL management before ending the strike then, promises
employee welfare and discourages any action related to privatisation.
Dubey said that there was no further scope for talks now.
"More
than one lakh power employees will participate in the strike in the
state. The UPPCL management alone will be responsible for any untoward
incident during the strike," he warned.
Meanwhile, UPPCL officials said that the power corporation had made preparations to deal with the strike.
A
senior UPPLC official said that Commissioners and District Magistrates
had been alerted and asked to regularly review power supply situation in
districts under them in close coordination with Power Department
officials.
"Control rooms have also been set up in Shakti Bhawan
and in each discom so that consumers may lodge their complaint regarding
power supply and the corporation would also seek services of retired
personnel as well as the NTPC to run power plants," the spokesman said.
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