As many as 230 employees and engineers working with the three state-run power companies — Mahagenco, Mahatransco and Mahadiscom — have died of Covid-19 in the last one year.
Outlining their helplessness in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and state Energy Minister Nitin Raut, the Subordinate Engineers Association, representing 12,000 engineers, has demanded that employees working in the power sector should be considered as frontline workers so that they can get priority in treatment and vaccination.
Kedar Relekar, president, Subordinate Engineers Association, told The Indian Express on Thursday, “Energy Minister Nitinji Raut and Minister of State for Energy Prajakt Tanpure have taken concrete steps to recognise power engineers and other employees as frontline workers.
