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Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: The Government has taken serious exception to the style of functioning of some officers of Power Development Corporation (PDC) after the issue was brought in the notice of Chief Minister by some senior trade union leaders of the state recently.
The Chief Minister who was taken by surprise after coming to know that the organisation has been converted into fiefdom by some powerful officers who are working in it for over a decade and have given such deep roots that even the Minister incharge of the Department can't go against them.
According to sources that these powerful officers have made the organisation their personnel property and they are free to take wanton decisions to give benefits to some blue eyed boys at the cost of general employees and engineers working in the organisation.
Sources said fed up with the style of functioning of these officers who managed their posting for over a decade in the organisation, employees and trade union leaders have submitted memorandums to Chief Minister who also looks after the portfolio of Power, his deputy as well as Commissioner Secretary Power seeking their immediate intervention to save the organisation from being ruined.
Sources said later a delegation of some senior trade unionists from the state also met the higher ups including the Chief Minister and informed them about the style of functioning of these officers who have converted the organisation into a den of corruption by throwing the all norms and rules to winds.
The delegation also demanded probe into the failure of various power projects constructed by the Corporation which developed snag soon after their commissioning and it this regard they cited the example of upper Sind Hydel Project State Second, Kangan where a portion of canal got eroded over two years back and still it was not constructed. The project which was designed for 105 mg of power hardly generates 35 mws in peak hours.
Sources said the trade union leaders also demanded a probe into the theft case in Lower Jhelum Hydel Project were copper worth Rs 50 lakh from the machinery has been stolen and the authorities were trying to hush up the matter.
Sources said taking serious note of the same the Chief Minister has sought a detailed report from the bureaucracy on this issue and directed immediate transfer of all those officers who have stayed in the Corporation for over five years with an intimation to his office.
Meanwhile, the trade union leaders in valley have warned to come to streets in case immediate action is not taken against the corrupt officers in the organisation as well as those bureaucrats in Civil Secretariat who have been shielding them.
The warning by CM has perturbed the higher ups in the Corporation who are trying to use some influential politicians to approach the CM asking him not take such a harsh step against these officers.
However, sources said the Chief Minister has said no to them and issued directives of pruning the organisation of over stayed officers and also initiate action against them for the mal practices. |
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