PATIALA: PSEB Engineers’ Association (PSEBEA) supports the genuine demands of employees such as difference in pay vis-a-vis the Punjab government employees , Time bound pay scales, Payment of DA/arrears, and has appealed to the chief minister to resolve these issues at the earliest.
Meanwhile Ajay pal Singh Atwal, General Secretary said that the Association has issued guidelines to engineers for ensuring supply continuity and safety during the ongoing protest by the various employee unions.
The current widespread resentment across nearly every cadre of PSPCL/ PSTCL is a direct result of the mishandling of legitimate issues by the management and the state government. These include delays in addressing critical shortage of manpower, pay scale arrears, TBPS, DA, Implementation of old pension schemes, other discrepancies in Pay scales. These are affecting employee welfare and the result is that most unions and associations are now on mass casual leave or working to rule.
PSEB Engineers’ Association members have been performing critical duties at various grid substations, generation, distribution, to prevent power blackouts in the state. To prevent any inconvenience to the public and to enable engineers to perform their duties safely, the Association has issued guidelines for immediate implementation and compliance by all to avoid any accident. Engineers will not perform any duty of the subordinate cadres and shall work for 8 hours a day. Further a minimum of 2 persons will perform duty in a particular shift at a substation.