LUCKNOW The management of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) on Sunday urged employee unions to not go for a strike and instead seek solutions to their demands through negotiations. The appeal comes in the wake of the U.P. Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti’s call for a 72-hour strike from midnight of March 16 to press their demand for implementation of the December 3 agreement.
In a statement, UPPCL chairman M Devraj on Sunday urged employees to leave their decision to go on a strike in the larger interest of consumers as well as energy corporations. “Come to the negotiating table to resolve your issues but do not go on strike in the interest of consumers and energy corporations,” he said. Devraj added that the corporation was facing a financial crisis with a monthly cash gap of ₹1,500 crore and this needed to be bridged by increasing revenue recovery.
