Electricity Dept staff protest over pending demands

In support of their long-pending demands, employees of the Electricity Department today boycotted work and held protest rallies in all subdivisions against ‘negative’ attitude adopted by the UT Administration and Engineering Department with regard to their demands.

The major pending demands include filling vacant promotion quota posts as per the revised posts in accordance with the rules for promotion and recruitment in the department, cancelling the FIRs registered against 143 employees and withdrawing the show-cause notices to 129 employees despite the strike being withdrawn after the agreement on the demands in the meeting held with the Administration in February 2022.

The UT Powerman Union appealed to all department employees to boycott work in all the divisions tomorrow and hold protest rallies and to join in large numbers in the mass fast being held outside the Chief Engineer’s office in Sector 9 on October 30 and also asked every employee to observe a black Diwali in protest.