PSEB engineers to launch stir today
Tribune News Service

Patiala, December 6
Accusing the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) management of surrendering its autonomy in deciding the posting and transfer of its employees to the state government, representatives of the PSEB Engineers’ Association have announced to launch an agitation from tomorrow.

Association president HS Bedi and general secretary Bhupinder Singh alleged that posting and transfers of officers were being made in the board without any approved transfer policy and at the whims of powerful lobbies.

“The posting of officers is an administrative exercise carried out to put right person at the right post, but in the PSEB it has become an instrument to please powerful lobbies.

In this process, the promotion of eligible officers get delayed and sometimes the officers have to wait for four to five months for the promotions,” they claimed.

While condemning the inordinate delay in promoting eligible officers, particularly from assistant engineer to assistant executive engineer and from AEE to senior executive engineer, by the board management, Bedi said regular promotion of engineers against vacancies arising each month was a routine, but in the last few months it had become irregular, resulting in resentment in the cadre.

Bedi also pointed out that the engineers were also agitated because the board management had given extension in service to a superannuated engineer, who was working as a system operation adviser.