Regularise services of contract staff: TSUEEU

Warangal: Members of Telangana State United Electricity Employees Union (TSUEEU), affiliated to Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), took to the streets here on Monday seeking regularisation of the services of contract workers.

The protesting union members took out a massive rally from Ekasila Park to corporate office of the Telangana State Northern Power Distribution Company at Nakkalagutta in Hanamkonda and staged a demonstration.

Employees from the districts of Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam, Nizamabad and Adilabad have participated in the protest. They displayed placards and raised slogans in support of their demands. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the TSNPDCL chairman and managing director K Venkata Narayana. Speaking on the occasion, union working president Royyala Raju, state general secretary N Venkateswarlu, vice president R Ramesh and others said that they have been demanding equal pay for equal work for all the employees. About 2,600 employees are working in TSGenco, TSTransco and Discoms. They were being paid meagre salaries by the contractors who were deducting some part of the wages earned by the employees, besides exploiting them, they alleged.

The Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao promised to regularise services of contract employees. Union leaders stated that the Chief Minister has to take initiative to deliver the promise. The leaders also wanted payment of wages directly by the government and scrapping of outsourcing method. The union leaders Gajjela Kumar, M Prabhakar and others were present.