Join work or face dismissal: UP Energy minister’s warning to employees on strike

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s Energy Minister A Ok Sharma on Saturday issued a stern warning to electrical energy division workers on strike, directing them to hitch their duties by 6 pm, or face dismissal.

The state-wide strike of electrical energy division workers continued for the second day on Saturday with their leaders warning that if the employees had been dismissed or arrested, the 72-hour symbolic strike would flip into an indefinite strike.

In an announcement on Saturday, leaders of Vidyut Karmachari Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti additionally warned that every one electrical employees, junior engineers of power companies, engineers and contract employees will begin a mass ‘jail bharo’ motion.

According to officers, the Ballia district administration has began lodging circumstances in opposition to workers of the electrical energy division discovered absent from responsibility with out authorisation.

“A decision has been taken to initiate action against 22 people from the department under ESMA (the Essential Services Maintenance Act). Apart from this, instructions have also been issued to lodge FIR against those damaging government property and obstructing others from discharging their duties. FIR has been registered against 29 people in this matter,” the minister mentioned.

“Services of 1,332 contractual employees have been terminated. I again request all contractual employees to resume their duties by 6 pm, else they will be dismissed from service tonight,” he mentioned. He added that the outsourcing firms have been advised to recruit new folks to exchange the dismissed workers.

“A list of people who have passed from ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges should be prepared who could be hired as apprentices. A decision (on whether to continue with their service or not) will be taken later,” Sharma mentioned.

In Ballia, a case was lodged in opposition to two electrical energy division workers who had been discovered lacking from an influence transmission facility.

According to an announcement issued by the district data division on Saturday, District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar and Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar inspected completely different services.

During the inspection, two workers supervisors posted at Vishnupur powerhouse had been discovered to be absent.

On the course of the district Justice of the Peace, a case was lodged in opposition to the absent workers, the assertion mentioned.

The district Justice of the Peace all directed deployment of police power round all powerhouses and to take strict motion if any miscreants attempt to trigger bother there, it added.

According to Shailendra Dubey, the convenor of Vidyut Karmacharis Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, there are 70,000 contractual workers within the electrical energy division.

“The Obra Thermal Power Plant has come to a standstill. All five units have shut down. The (electricity) production of Obra is zero,” Dubey claimed, including, the protest has led to an enormous disruption in electrical energy provide in some elements of the state. Energy minister Sharma mentioned that efforts are on to have a dialogue with the protesting workers. The protesters, nonetheless, have sought Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s intervention to finish the “atmosphere of confrontation”.

They alleged that a few of their calls for referring to pay anomalies and outsourcing of operation and upkeep of energy sub-stations, agreed to by the state authorities in December final yr, haven’t been fulfilled by energy companies even after three months.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s Energy Minister A Ok Sharma on Saturday issued a stern warning to electrical energy division workers on strike, directing them to hitch their duties by 6 pm, or face dismissal.

The state-wide strike of electrical energy division workers continued for the second day on Saturday with their leaders warning that if the employees had been dismissed or arrested, the 72-hour symbolic strike would flip into an indefinite strike.

In an announcement on Saturday, leaders of Vidyut Karmachari Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti additionally warned that every one electrical employees, junior engineers of power companies, engineers and contract employees will begin a mass ‘jail bharo’ motion.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

According to officers, the Ballia district administration has began lodging circumstances in opposition to workers of the electrical energy division discovered absent from responsibility with out authorisation.

“A decision has been taken to initiate action against 22 people from the department under ESMA (the Essential Services Maintenance Act). Apart from this, instructions have also been issued to lodge FIR against those damaging government property and obstructing others from discharging their duties. FIR has been registered against 29 people in this matter,” the minister mentioned.

“Services of 1,332 contractual employees have been terminated. I again request all contractual employees to resume their duties by 6 pm, else they will be dismissed from service tonight,” he mentioned. He added that the outsourcing firms have been advised to recruit new folks to exchange the dismissed workers.

“A list of people who have passed from ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges should be prepared who could be hired as apprentices. A decision (on whether to continue with their service or not) will be taken later,” Sharma mentioned.

In Ballia, a case was lodged in opposition to two electrical energy division workers who had been discovered lacking from an influence transmission facility.

According to an announcement issued by the district data division on Saturday, District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar and Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar inspected completely different services.

During the inspection, two workers supervisors posted at Vishnupur powerhouse had been discovered to be absent.

On the course of the district Justice of the Peace, a case was lodged in opposition to the absent workers, the assertion mentioned.

The district Justice of the Peace all directed deployment of police power round all powerhouses and to take strict motion if any miscreants attempt to trigger bother there, it added.

According to Shailendra Dubey, the convenor of Vidyut Karmacharis Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, there are 70,000 contractual workers within the electrical energy division.

“The Obra Thermal Power Plant has come to a standstill. All five units have shut down. The (electricity) production of Obra is zero,” Dubey claimed, including, the protest has led to an enormous disruption in electrical energy provide in some elements of the state. Energy minister Sharma mentioned that efforts are on to have a dialogue with the protesting workers. The protesters, nonetheless, have sought Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s intervention to finish the “atmosphere of confrontation”.

They alleged that a few of their calls for referring to pay anomalies and outsourcing of operation and upkeep of energy sub-stations, agreed to by the state authorities in December final yr, haven’t been fulfilled by energy companies even after three months.