A representative team of the Odisha Bidyut Karmachari Mahasangha led by its president Subas Singh met and urged Energy Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra and Revenue Minister Sudam Marndi to resolve their various demands at the earliest.
The demands include provision of financial assistance and rehabilitation in case of electricity-elated accidental deaths, regularisation of contractual employees, sorting out salary discrepancies between administrative and skilled workers and payment of skill-labour wages to JMOT working at the OPTCL.
In response, the Minister assured the representatives that he would held a meeting with department officers to resolve the various problems in coming three days’ time.
Among others, working president Rajib Mohanty, general secretary Amar Jumar Pratap Singh, organizational secretary Bijay Kumar Bhujabal and secretaries Kumar Jitendra Biswal, Manoranjan Biswal and Debabrata Raul and Jnana Ranjan Barik were present.