Power engineers demand new Director (Thermal)
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 18:15
Source: Punjab Newsline Network
PANIPAT: Haryana Power Engineers Association (HPEA) has demanded that the appointment of new Director (thermal ) immediately and removal of pay anomalies.

HPEA in its meeting held at Panipat on Sunday expressed serious concern about the proposed extensions to two retiring engineers on expiry of their terms. The term of present Director thermal expires this week and the person has no knowledge of working of thermal plants.

R S Dahiya President of Association said that the association is fully opposed to the extension to anyone beyond superannuation. The extension to any person denies a chance of promotion to working engineers, which causes heart burning, besides affecting the efficiency and moral of serving engineers.

The association demanded reinstatement of executive engineer who was suspended in September last year when unit was forced to shut down at Yamuna Nagar due to inferior Chinese design and equipment.
Meanwhile All India Power Engineers Federation has also written to Chief Minister Haryana to shun the move to grant extension of term to Director thermal and Chief Executive Officer and new officers should be given their due promotions.

The Association also sought the implementation of Haryana Governments order regarding grant of increment on promotion and grant of time scales. Three out of four utilities are not giving increments to assistant engineer on his promotion as assistant executive engineer or at the time of time scales. All the power utilities have adopted the state government orders but continue to harsh the engineers. The class I engineers have been placed in pay band II instead of pay band III and this is highly discriminatory.