Election Commission issues order to Punjab govt on power engineers’ concern
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatala.in News/ March 28,2024
Election Commission has accepted the request of PSEB Engineers’ Association (PSEBEA) to exempt the technical staff of the powercom from poll duties.
The election commission has asked the state government to not to depute power engineers on any poll duty and also not the requisitioned any vehicle of the power department for any poll related duty.
Earlier the PSEB Engineers’ Association has raised the matter of their officers being deputed on election duty with the Chief Election Commissioner and the Chief Election Officer, Punjab .
In a letter written to the poll officials, the association stated: “It has come to our notice that the district authorities are not only blatantly disregarding the instructions of the ECI and the Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, but are compromising the power supply of the state by not only assigning essential PSPCL/PSTCL officials to election duties but also to other non-departmental/general administration duties in an arbitrary manner. The case in point is Patiala district where duties already assigned to general staff of offices of the PWD, SDM, Irrigation, etc, are being cancelled and power engineers are being deputed in their place.”
The association has also raised the issue with the concerned authorities that “despite the directions of the Election Commission of India (ECI) that “operational/technical staff of electrical companies will be requisitioned for election duty only in unavoidable circumstances or related to their department for election purposes”, they are being deputed on poll duties.
