February 05, 2014 08:40 PM

CHANDIGARH: PSEB Engineers’ Association strongly condemns the attitude of the PSPCL management of forcefully getting the support of the engineers while calling them for official meeting.

The Associaition claimed that CMD PSPCL Mr. K.D.Chaudhary today called an official meeting at Ludhiana of selected engineers from Patiala ,Ludhiana and other areas and he raised the issue regarding his extension beyond the age of 62 and sought their support. He asked the engineers to sign on dotted lines. Similar efforts were made at Amritsar & Ropar thermal plant by Director/Distribution and Director/Generation respectively but strong resentment of the engineers forced the directors to backtrack and Directors did not dare to force engineers to sign on official resolution.

Baldev Singh Sran President of Association said that they have taken a stand on principles against Punjab Governments proposal to amend the upper age limit of CMD / Directors from 62 to 65 and to make serving IAS officers eligible for the posts of CMD & Director/HR. Further, the tripartite agreement was signed between the government and various unions of PSPCL/PSTCL at the time of unbundling of the PSEB and the association had supported the Govt Of Punjab for smooth transition from PSEB to PSPCL/PSTCL and now the decision of Punjab Govt to change the clauses of the tripartite agreement unilaterally without any understanding with the Association which is one of signatories of the agreement.

Power engineers from all parts of state condemn the move of the present CMD has decided to wear black badges and will hold already planned protest rallies at Patiala, Jalandhar and Bathinda tomorrow to protest against the state governments proposal.

The Association has also appealed to K.D Chaudhri CMD/PSPCL, who remained an office bearer of the Association to abide by the principles of the association and not to accept the extension in service in the interest of organizational development of PSPCL

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