UPPCL engineers’ demand for higher pay boomerangs

The demand by Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) engineers for a hike in their existing pay scales has apparently boomeranged on them. The state government has, instead, questioned the very logic of the heavily loss-ridden corporation providing higher salaries to its engineers and other personnel than what the government employees are entitled to.

The development comes when the engineers are organising protests to demand, among other things, higher pay scales. In this backdrop, special secretary (energy) Bhawani Singh Khangaraut on Wednesday wrote a letter to the UPPCL managing director (MD), questioning the basis of the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACPS) that UPPCL implemented for its employees in variance with the one available to the state government employees.