EArly Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: Power Employees Coordination Committee (PECC) has appealed Lieutenant Governor MK Sinha to bring PDD employees under insurance cover.
In a press conference here today, the Committee members condoled and expressed deep grief over the demise of Purshotam Kumar, Feeder Manager of Shastri Nagar Sub Division, JPDCL Jammu due to COVID-19 while he was performing his duties of maintaining uninterrupted power supply throughout the testing times amidst COVID.
PECC has time and again brought to the notice of administration and the policy makers that there is an urgent need to bring the Power Employees under the Ambit of Covid-19 life insurance security initiated by the Government in favour of Heath, sanitation, Police workers.
Due to the non-existence of policy of insurance for the power sector employees, they have been left in lurch and their families have been put to social risk because of no guarantees being offered against their lives being sacrificed to COVID in these testing times. The Government needs to treat the power sector employees fairly as they are running power round the clock in all the areas irrespective of whether it is a red zone or a green zone.
“Electricity of all hospitals, Covid care centers, Quarantine centers and all the residential areas are being manned in all circumstances. It is hard to imagine any service without electricity and work of Power employees has been recognised by the society in the time of crisis”, they said.
Those who attended the condolence meet included Er.Sachin, Er.Jaipal Sharma , Ajaz Kazmi, Sanjeev Bali, Balbir Singh, Anil Slathia ,HD Singh, Jasbir Singh, Manjeet Singh, Tarun Gupta among others.
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