The recommendation of five employees of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) to the Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (RECL), New Delhi for award of outstanding contribution in implementing Saubhagya scheme has come under cloud. The recommendations have been challenged by a person none other than one who till yesterday was the chief engineer (Project) of the Saubhagya scheme, considered one of the pet schemes of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a letter written to the director, operations of UPCL, the outgoing chief engineer (projects), R S Burfal registered his objection on the names of the persons selected for the award.