Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 11: J&K Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) has alleged that engineers of Jammu Kashmir Power Development Department were facing injustice at the hands of NHPC.
In an emergency meeting of the Executive Council of the JKEEGA held here today under the chairmanship of its president, Harvinder Singh, the members raised serious concerns about the grave injustice being metted out to the senior engineers of JKPDD by way of either not giving due share in deputations in various power projects or by making engineers from PDD to work in CVPPL at a rank below the rank and status equivalent to the one held by them in PDD in different CPSU’s especially NHPC.
One such deliberate attempt of deception with the already signed MoU’s and agreements between GoJK and NHPC on the part of NHPC is continuously evident from the past several years since the inception of different projects under NHPC, they maintained.
They said according to the Clause 2(d) of signed MoU’s between the then Chief Minister of J&K and the then Union Minister of Power, GoI dated July 20, 2000, for the power projects under NHPC, it was agreed upon that at least 30% of the personnel will be taken by NHPC on deputation from the J&K Govt.
However, it is very unfortunate that hardly any engineer was deputed by the J&K Govt to NHPC during construction stage and the same story has been repeating even at O&M stages of these power projects as well. The step motherly treatment of NHPC towards the engineers of JK has not only deprived the engineers of JKPDD from the opportunity of capacity building and learning, at construction and O&M stages of these power projects under NHPC, but it has also added to the already existing unemployment of qualified engineers in UT of Jammu Kashmir.
The other such unjustified and demoralizing event took place when a senior engineer from JKPDD holding the post of I/C Chief Engineer (Electric) was transferred and posted as Chief General Manager, D&CE vice the post of CGM. Pursuant to the Govt order, when the officer joined at the new place of posting to his utter surprise he was directed to report to General Manager, Kiru HEP. The point of concern here is that the Chief General Manager is made to report to General Manager, which is not only in contradiction to the essence of the Govt order but also it is against the promoter’s agreement and delegation of powers. The JKEEGA sought intervention of Lt Governor of J&K UT into the metter.
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