JUNIOR ENGINEERS of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation were up in arms against their alleged harassment by senior officials of the department. Sounding an ultimatum to the officials, they gave one-week’s time to start negotiations and stop the harassment of JEs failing which they threatened to launch a movement from July 17. They handed over a memorandum to the general manager, Power Corporation (distribution) and demanded his intervention in the matter.
President of the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Council Junior Engineers’ Organisation Dhananjay Prasad Pandey said here that JEs were feeling uneasy due to their harassment and overwork. He expressed displeasure over suspension of a JE on July 5 on tehsil divas and said the villagers had complained against the local police station for not registering their FIR for theft of electricity wires but the district magistrate issued the suspension order without any report of departmental officials.
Pandey said similarly on July 4, an assistant engineer was suspended for establishing a power sub-station and electrifying a colony which was not passed by the Gorakhpur Development Authority.
He said if the colony was developed by private colonizers, the map of the colony was granted by the authority. However, the assistant engineer was suspended on the basis of wrong information, Pandey said.
The two instances revealed the fact that junior and assistant engineers were being harassed by senior officials, Pandey said. Earlier an assistant engineer in Siddharthnagar was suspended for absence of duty even though he was on leave for personal reasons, Pandey said
{{/usCountry}}The two instances revealed the fact that junior and assistant engineers were being harassed by senior officials, Pandey said. Earlier an assistant engineer in Siddharthnagar was suspended for absence of duty even though he was on leave for personal reasons, Pandey said
{{/usCountry}}Prasad demanded to revoke the suspension of the suspended JEs and AEs who, he said, were devoted workers of the department, and said the Power Corporation GM should discuss the issue with district magistrate Dr Hariom. He said a sense of insecurity was prevailing among the JEs and claimed that no JE or AE was involved in electricity wire theft.