The Mayurbhanj Nesco Power Employees’ Union on Saturday held here a well-attended conference of its members and discussed different problems facing the Nesco employees.
The conference also unanimously raised its demand for abolition of Nesco’s practice of keeping employees on contractual basis and for making the already-employed employees permanent.
The meeting presided over by Subramanyam Mohanty was held at the local Ganesh Mandap. While union joint secretary Jyotikrushna Behera introduced the guests, union secretary Tarakant Patnaik initiated the discussion. Speaker after speaker spoke of the problems being faced by the employees. Besides raising the demand to make contractual employees permanent and making regular payments of their EPF and ESI dues, they talked of the shortage of fuse wires, gloves, kitkats, insulators etc, which, according to them, comes in the way of their rendering better service to the consumers.
Those who took part in the deliberations included Partha Sarathi Das, Budheswar Marandi, Chhabi Mohanta, Jnanaranjan Parida, Utpal Kumar Bhanjbabu, Vijay kumar Sahu, Rudra Kumar Das, Aswini Kumar Panda, Debasis Behera, Dipti Buyan, Karunakar Pati, Manas Ranjan Shukla and Chandan Kumar Mohanty.