The 23rd Annual General Body meeting of the Odisha Power Transmission Engineers' Association (OPTRA) was held on Friday here in presence of Additional Chief Secretary, Energy, Nikunja Bihari Dhal as chief guest.
CMD, OPTCL Sanjay Mishra, MD, GRIDCO Trilochan Panda, AOPEF chief patron Biswaranjan Mishra, chairman Dhananjay Pradhan and secretary general Brahma Prakash Paital attended as distinguished guests.
Association president Pradeep Dash welcomed the dignitaries. General secretary Pravat Dash presented the annual report.
ACS Dhal highlighted the importance of reliability of power supply and customer satisfaction and also praised the contribution of power engineers towards maintaining reliable power supply round the clock , more specially for their efforts during Covid situation, natural calamities like cyclones, nor'westerly and flood.
The CMD, OPTCL praised the contribution of engineers in adding new grid substations and lines to the existing system for reliable power supply. He praised the efforts of engineers for which OPTCL has received several accolades at the national level for its best performances in various departments .
MD, GRIDCO Panda emphasised on renewable energy, while chief speaker, Er Mishra, highlighted the need of quality institution and good working atmosphere for which the HR department has to play a greater role. He further emphasised on the need of giving scope to the in-house efficient engineers to the Director level posts for better work efficiency.
Paital thanked the ACS Dhal for implementation of HR and MA as per 7th Pay Commission. He highlighted the long pending issues of power engineers.
The oficials promised to look in to the genuine issues of power engineers like cadre restructuring, time scale promotion, engineering designation and enhancement of conveyance allowance.