The UP Rajya Vidyut Parishad Junior Engineers’ Sangathan, a body representing power sector junior engineers in the state, has sharply reacted to the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (UPERC) directions for action against 1,882 engineers for delaying lodging of first information reports (FIRs) in power theft cases.
On the UPERC’s directives, the UPPCL has identified these engineers for punishment on the ground that they did not lodge FIRs in power theft cases within the stipulated 24 hours of detecting theft on consumers’ premises.
“The UPPCL has identified engineers to be erring arbitrarily on the basis of wrong and misleading information,” Sangathan’s central patron Satnam Singh said warning the UPPCL against taking any action against engineers without doing proper homework.
