Over 35,000 outsourced contract employees of the State will organise an indefinite agitation from September 27 in all 52 districts of the State said MP Provincial Convener of Electricity Outsourced Employees Organisation Manoj Bhargava and Co-convener Rahul Malviya announced after discussion with outsourced employees in Bhopal.
Bhargava said in a meeting of about one and a half hours with the Energy Minister in Bhopal on August 23, 2021 at Prakash Complex, the Energy Minister gave 2-3 of the 19-point demands, including the merger of the power outsourced contract employees in the power companies.
Meeting in the round was assured to solve them, but after this promise, no order has been issued from the Government and company level till now and no meeting has been held with outsourced representatives at the Government level whereas electricity outsourced employees without financial burden from the government and without any expense on the basis of seniority and merit, they want to merge in power companies by forming small cadres on the salary they are getting at present without spending. By doing this where MP 300 crore per annum to the Government.
At the same time, there will also be relief from the evading to payment of salary and evasion of EPF amount by the contractors, but MP. The Government wants to run these power companies on the lines of Gujarat State, not under regularisation system, but 100 per cent through outsourcing system, against which the power outsourced workers are being forced to organise an indefinite agitation from September 27.