REMOVE RE-EMPLOYED CHIEF ENGINEERS: PSEB STAFF
Chandigarh May 12:
Strongly opposing the re-employment of retired chief engineers and other officials as advisors in the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), the PSEB Engineers’ Association has urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to direct the board authorities to remove them immediately.
In a letter addressed to Badal and the chief secretary and the power secretary, association chief H.S. Bedi has stated that the matter was taken up with the board management several times in the recent past, but without any positive response. He said there was a lot of resentment in the cadre, particularly at senior levels, because of the reappointment of retired engineers at important places in the board.
Bedi said the board was facing several functional and administrative problems because of the re-employment of retired chief engineers as advisors. They were enjoying all powers of chief engineers without any accountability since the decision on important policy matters were being taken by these advisors, but chief engineers were made to sign the papers, asserted Bedi.
The top management of the board was also directly dealing with the advisors, bypassing incumbent chief engineers, thus, making the office of various heads of departments ineffective. Moreover, over a period of time, the advisors had developed a vested interest in keeping the official hierarchy ignorant about important official matters since their continuation at such a post depended on their capability to keep the official machinery dependant on them for routine official matters.
“We demand that all these advisors employed by the board be removed immediately as they are performing routine jobs of the chief engineers for which sufficient number of talented engineers are available,” Bedi said. Upset over the increasing tendency of the PSEB management to re-employ retired officers as advisors, the association said the re-employed chief engineers were, in fact, performing most of the day-to-day functions of chief engineers.
It was affecting the well-established administrative hierarchy and accountability in the organisation. This tendency was creeping in the working of some serving chief engineers also who were near superannuation and aspirants for re-employment. They were not interested to train their sub-ordinates which was the prime duty of a superior officer. Above all, these officers were being re-employed on pick-and-choose basis and againstthe established service rules, Bedi stated.
Chandigarh May 12:
Strongly opposing the re-employment of retired chief engineers and other officials as advisors in the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), the PSEB Engineers’ Association has urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to direct the board authorities to remove them immediately.
In a letter addressed to Badal and the chief secretary and the power secretary, association chief H.S. Bedi has stated that the matter was taken up with the board management several times in the recent past, but without any positive response. He said there was a lot of resentment in the cadre, particularly at senior levels, because of the reappointment of retired engineers at important places in the board.
Bedi said the board was facing several functional and administrative problems because of the re-employment of retired chief engineers as advisors. They were enjoying all powers of chief engineers without any accountability since the decision on important policy matters were being taken by these advisors, but chief engineers were made to sign the papers, asserted Bedi.
The top management of the board was also directly dealing with the advisors, bypassing incumbent chief engineers, thus, making the office of various heads of departments ineffective. Moreover, over a period of time, the advisors had developed a vested interest in keeping the official hierarchy ignorant about important official matters since their continuation at such a post depended on their capability to keep the official machinery dependant on them for routine official matters.
“We demand that all these advisors employed by the board be removed immediately as they are performing routine jobs of the chief engineers for which sufficient number of talented engineers are available,” Bedi said. Upset over the increasing tendency of the PSEB management to re-employ retired officers as advisors, the association said the re-employed chief engineers were, in fact, performing most of the day-to-day functions of chief engineers.
It was affecting the well-established administrative hierarchy and accountability in the organisation. This tendency was creeping in the working of some serving chief engineers also who were near superannuation and aspirants for re-employment. They were not interested to train their sub-ordinates which was the prime duty of a superior officer. Above all, these officers were being re-employed on pick-and-choose basis and againstthe established service rules, Bedi stated.
