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| More dark days ahead in JK as Power Deptt runs short of engineers! | | Around 400 posts vacant, admin unmoved | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 2: Even as Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing unusually frequent power outages putting people to inconvenience for the last few months, the Power Development Department is “running short” of the engineering staff.
The Early Times has accessed official documents which hint at the “alarming shortage” of engineers in the PDD as around “400 posts are lying vacant.”
Officials said it was for the first time in the history of Jammu and Kashmir that such a big number of posts were lying vacant in the department dealing with the deliverance of basic services thereby affecting the deliverance of power supply to the consumers.
The official documents reveal that the shortage of engineers ranging between the posts of Assistant Engineers and the Chief Engineers and even Directors is “alarmingly big.”
Officials said around three posts of Executive Directors are lying vacant while as six posts of Chief Engineers are also lying vacant.
The officials said over twenty posts of Superintending Engineers and more than forty posts are Executive Engineers are also lying vacant.
Around three hundred posts of Assistant Engineers and Assistant Executive Engineers also lying vacant.
Some top officials while talking to the Early Times on the condition of anonymity said that it was for the first time that shortage of engineers has become so “alarmingly huge” that it was bound to affect the power supplies Union Territory in the coming months, especially in Jammu which is headed for summers.
“Though till now the engineers have been managing the show, given the expansion of infrastructure, things will be more than difficult in the coming weeks and months,” said the engineers.
It’s pertinent to mention that the power consumers of Jammu and Kashmir have been complaining of “more frequent power outages than before for the last few months.”
“When the power infrastructure expands but the number of engineers goes down alarmingly, the deficit will affect the services and it needs no rocket science to explain how the problem will aggravate,” said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said for the last around a year, the matter was brought to the notice of Raj Bhawan several times but that there has been no breakthrough.
When contacted a senior official admitted the power department was understaffed but added that “things are being managed.” |
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