PDD AEE succumbs to COVID
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 15: Power Employees under the banner of Power Employees and Engineers Coordination Committee (PEECC) comprising of various Unions of PDD today held a condolence meeting on the demise of Jagdeep Singh Sasan ,Assistant Ex.Engineer who was performing his official duties in the Power Development Department throughout this Pandemic and contracted infection and succumbed to the virus.
The meeting was led by Sachin Tickoo general secretary JKEEGA and represented by Jaipal Sharma, president DEA, Ajaz Kazmi and Sanjeev Bali of PPEU, Balbir Singh of Draftsman Association, Anil Slathia of Lineman and Workers Association, HD Singh of TEF, Parshottam Kumar of CNGEU, Jasbir Singh of ITI Employees, Tarun Gupta of PEU and Akhil Sharma of Need Based Union, Gurmeet Singh, CNGEA, PEECC.
In a statement issued here, it said that it has time and again approached Government to bring the Power employees under the ambit of the COVID-19 Insurance scheme meant for the front line workers and it is deplorable that Power employees have been left out of the scheme even though it is not possible to imagine any service possible without the contribution of the Power sector. The Power employees have been putting their strenuous efforts to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the Pandemic to all the Households, Quarantine centers, and Hospitals. The power employees have not shrug off from duties and never ignored even a household that is declared as COVID positive, containment zones and Red zones, the statement added.
It is really agonizing that even though the COVID cases are on rise and need is to minimize the public movement , the Government is implementing amnesty scheme for power consumers which leads to lot of rush of visitors to the Sub Divisional offices of PDD, it said. The Back to Village programme being implemented in its Third Phase will also increase the public gatherings and lead to risking the lives of the employees of PDD as there is no COVID insurance cover for the employees in the present scenario, the statement added.
“We strongly urge the Leituenant Governor to issue instructions to the concerned quarters to extend the COVID insurance facility to the Power employees and in the instant case compensation to the family of the deceased officer may kindly be sanctioned at an earliest to mitigate the loss to certain extent even though the human loss is irreparable” the statement said.
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