BSES loses 22 employees to Covid, 18 during second wave; demands relief for their kin from Delhi govt

The city’s largest power discom BSES has requested the Delhi government to consider electricity workers as frontline workers, saying that the Covid-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of 22 employees, including 18 during the second wave, official records show.

In its petitions to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), both BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna have pointed out that the impact of the second wave on the workforce of the companies, especially on their frontline field staff, has been particularly serious.

BSES Rajdhani said it till March 2021, the company lost two employees to Covid, while 316 got infected by the virus. Between March 2021 and the first week of May, eight employees succumbed and 278 contracted the virus, it said.