Lucknow: Power engineers started work boycott on Monday in protest against the state government’s plan to privatize Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL).
Engineers at distribution and transmission substations and those at power generation plants were exempted from the agitation.
President of Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, Shailendra Dubey, said: “The association has demanded intervention of CM Yogi Adityanath so that further confrontation between the management and engineers can be avoided.” Dubey said they would continue to maintain communication with energy minister Shrikant Sharma to defuse the crisis.
UPPCL management is misguiding the government over losses incurred in Purvanchal distribution company,” Dubey said.
“As per the agreement between the engineers and the energy minister on April 5, 2018, the department had said that reforms in distribution companies would be introduced after taking employees into confidence,” he added. The association said work boycott will continue till UPPCL scraps the proposal to privatise the discom.
