End stir, seek solution via talks: UPPCL chairman to engineers

Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) chairman M Devraj on Sunday appealed to agitating engineers and other personnel to end their stir in public interest and seek solution to their issues through negotiation.

In a written appeal, he said Covid-19 pandemic and many other factors had adversely impacted the financial state of the corporation even as the countrywide coal shortage had posed a fresh crisis amid the festival season.

“The cumulative deficit of the corporation has reached ₹90,000 crore and in such an adverse situation it is not possible for the corporation to increase salaries of employees and come under additional financial burden,” Devraj said.