VIJAYAWADA: Around 210 employees of State power utilities have succumbed to Covid-19 in May and over 2,000 others contracted the virus during the second wave, according to AP State Power Employees’ Joint Action Committee (APSPE-JAC).The JAC has once again requested the State government to identify them as frontline workers immediately.
They have also appealed to the State authorities to immediately take up mass vaccination drive for the power sector employees, who are high-risk category workers, as told by Union Ministry of Power.The JAC has submitted a representation to energy secretary Srikant Nagulapalli on Tuesday and claimed that despite repeated requests to identify electricity employees as frontline warriors, no progressive steps were taken.
