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JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) led by Sachin Tickoo, General Secretary in presence of Ashok Kumar Dubey Vice-President, M P Singh Provincial Secretary, Rajeshwar Jamwal Provincial Publicity Secretary, Yash Paul Organising Secretary, Vipul Sharma Treasurer and Purshottam Sharma Cashier held a Press Conference here at Press Club on Saturday.
While speaking on the occasion, Sachin Tickoo expressed gratitude and pleasure over issuance of regularization orders in favour of 104 engineers, including 13 Chief Engineers, 32 Superintending Engineers and 59 Executive Engineers. He further said that issue was so chronic that since 2001 regularization of Engineers in Power Development Department had been left unaddressed and working out the complete proposal as per the mandate of SAC decision in its meeting held on October 22, 2019 was a herculean task which was befittingly done by dedicated team of Human Resource Management wing of Power Development Department led by Dr Desraj Bhagat Additional Secretary HRM, under overall supervision and guidance of Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary PDD since his taking over the reins of the department in August 2020.
JKEEGA unequivocally appreciated efforts put in by Rohit Kansal during the last one and half year towards improving work culture in Power Development department in terms of increasing consumer satisfaction by delivering quality power supply to every nook and corner of Union Territory and at the same time infusing renewed zeal among cadre by taking landmark decisions and resolving issues which had been pending since ages together.
Ashok Kumar Dubey highlighted that PDD had been able to incorporate provision of 24 lakh as ex-gratia relief in case of death of any employee/ daily wager due to any electrical accident and large emphasis has been laid on the safety measures to minimize such incidents ab-nitio, recognising role of each employee of the department.
JKEEGA further expressed gratitude to Dr Arun Kumar Mehta Chief Secretary J&K, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi Comm Secy General Administration Department and other committee members for expediting clearance of the regularisation proposal in order to resolve long pending issue of employees of PDD.
JKEEGA hoped that such steps shall be a continuous process and it shall be taken to last mile so that benefits percolate down to bottom to each and every eligible engineer. The Power Engineering fraternity exuded confidence in the administration and hoped that next landmark decision shall be notification of Assured Career Progression scheme, which shall address the issue of stagnation in engineering services.