Haryana Power Engineers’ Association elects Puneet Kumar and Ravinder Ghanghas as President, General Secretary
Kamalpreet Singh/ Ambala/ December 22,2024
Puneet Kumar, Superintendent Engineer Yamunanagar , was elected president, while Ravinder Ghanghas, Executive Engineer was elected general secretary of the Haryana Power Engineers’ Association (HPEA) its annual general body meeting held on Saturday. Puneet Sharma, SDO, HVPN (Panchkula), was elected chief organizing secretary.
Other members elected included Lalit Kumar, Virender Rana, Baljeet Beniwal, and Sonu Yadav from HVPN; Ashish Gautam, Jatin Jangra, Yashpal Rana, and Satish Goyat from UHBVN; and Sudeep Bamal, Manmohan Jeet Singh Mann, Rahul Mehla, and Sumit Kumar from the DHBVN. The elections were conducted by S K Garg returning officer.
Power engineers from across Haryana, representing the Haryana Power Transmission Corporation, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), participated in large numbers in the general body meeting.
Outgoing state president engineer Vijender Lamba and general secretary Engineer Anil Nagar addressed the annual general meeting before the election process began. They highlighted significant achievements of their two year term.
Lamba said that the engineers’ pivotal role in reducing line losses to 11 per cent across the state, swiftly restoring power during outages and improving revenue recovery.
Haryana Power Engineers’ Association elects Puneet Kumar and Ravinder Ghanghas as President, General Secretary. Chairman of the All-India Power Engineers Federation, Shailendra Dubey in a video message at the general body meeting of Haryana Power Engineers Association held today at Hissar said that any unilateral action to privatise the electricity in Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh without taking the electricity employees and engineers across the country into confidence would be strongly opposed by all power sector engineers and employees of the country and they will be forced to resort to a nationwide strike in protest against the move.
