Discoms’ losses cross Rs 7,100 crore, outstanding loan at Rs 15,268 crore
Manish Sirhindi
Tribune News Service

Panipat, October 11
With the losses of the Haryana discoms crossing over Rs 7,100 crore and the outstanding loan of Rs 15,268 crore, the financial health of the power utilities has started causing worry to the power engineers of the state.

The Haryana Power Engineers Association said it was due to the lack of political will that the defaulting amount from rural areas had crossed Rs 2,100 crore while that of the urban areas had also run into crores of rupees.

RS Dahiya, president of the association, said the sincere officers were being hounded by authorities at the behest of influential people and even as the engineers had been talking of bringing down the losses, they were not being allowed to do because of constant political interference.

He said perturbed over the prevailing circumstances, the power engineers had decided to convene a general house meeting in Panipat soon.

Besides holding discussions over the remedial measures, which can be taken to improve the financial health of the power utilities, the engineers would also take up the issue of their long-pending demands.

The engineers had been struggling to bring parity in pay scales of the engineers working in discoms, restructuring of discoms and filling of vacant posts of directors in the power utilities.

Dahiya said the Power Minister at the previous meeting, held with the representatives of the association, had assured them of solving all these issues but till date nothing had been done to redress their grievances.