Lack of junior engineers in UP sub stations affects power supply

Lucknow’s electricity supply is hit due to a shortage of staff and technical manpower at nearly half of the power substations in Uttar Pradesh’s capital. The response time to attend any complaint lodged by a consumer is longer than usual because some of these power substations don’t even have a full-time junior engineer (JE). At many substations, contractors are running the show, according to officials of the Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA).

They said that over 60 substations of the 140 in Lucknow don’t have a full-time junior engineer, which means that around 50 junior engineers are overseeing more than two substations each.