On the call of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers, a huge protest and march was held and a memorandum was given to the Administrator

On the call of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers, a huge protest and march was held and a memorandum was given to the Administrator

Chandigarh 31 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : On the call of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers, as part of the country-wide struggle, the electricity employees of Chandigarh held protest rallies in front of the offices from 12 noon to 1 pm and in the evening, a huge rally and march was held and memorandums were given to the President and the Administrator through the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh. In the memorandum given to the President, a demand was made to cancel the decision to sell the profit-making electricity department to a private company at a throwaway price and to cancel the LoI given to the company. It was said in the memorandum that fixing the base price at only Rs. 174.63 crore without conducting an independent audit of the assets of the department was condemned and demand was made for cancellation of this agreement and in another memorandum presented to the Administrator, it was alleged that the officers of the administration are repeatedly flouting the rules and bidding process and are also violating the service conditions of the employees and without taking option from the employees, they are being forcibly handed over to a private company against their will, which is an exception in the entire country. While addressing the rallies, Union President Amrik Singh, General Secretary Gopal Dutt Joshi, former President Dhyan Singh, Vice President Gurmeet Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Vinay Prasad, Kashmir Singh, Pan Singh, Virendra Singh, Lalit Singh, Satkar Singh, Ram Gopal, Kulwinder Singh, Jagtar Singh, Surinder Singh and other officials and Federation President Raghveer Chand, Rajendra Katoch, Harkesh Chand, Harpal Singh Tarun Jaiswal and others alleged that the administration is going to handover the department to a private company without fixing the service conditions of the employees and without taking their options. The speakers questioned how can anyone change the government status of the employees without asking them. Actually, the officials had to publish the transfer policy before inviting tenders, which has not been done even after 4 years. To hide the same mistake, mistakes are being made again and again and the money of the employees' families is being looted in private trusts. That too without their consent, which is sheer injustice and oppression. He questioned that it is the basic principle of the whole world that private operators work for their own profits instead of the interests of employees and the general public.The speakers further said that the administration is talking about making a policy after handing over the department, and is creating a misunderstanding that a transfer policy will be made after the handover, which is baseless and fallacious. He warned that the administration should immediately take a clear decision on the issues related to the employees and in this regard, the decision taken regarding the transfer of employees from UT to MC, the decision taken regarding the employees of NTPC in which it was said that the employer cannot be changed without the consent of the employee, and the decision should be taken keeping in mind the adjustment of the employees of Government Press in other departments, etc., in relation to which detailed memoranda have been given to all the officers of the administration, but instead of paying attention to this, provocative actions are being taken again and again, which will not be tolerated at any cost. Demanding total cancellation of privatization and cancellation of LOI, they warned that the day the department is handed over, work boycott will be started from that day itself. After the march, the administration's PRO Rajiv Tiwari took the memorandum.