Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / May 15, 2021
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF), an umbrella of nearly 1.5 million employees pan India, has urged the Centre to declare powermen as Covid-19 frontline workers for facilitating their mass vaccination.
The Federation has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union power minister R K Singh to urgently instruct the various state governments in this respect.
AIPEF chairman Shailendra Dubey claimed about 1,000 power sector employees and engineers had so far succumbed to Covid-19, while more than 15,000 were infected.
In Maharashtra, a total of over 7,100 employees are Covid positive and about 210 have died. In Uttar Pradesh, more than 4,000 power sector employees are suffering from coronavirus and there have been 140 casualties, he lamented.
“In Haryana, 20 employees have died and 900 employees are affected by coronavirus. In Punjab, 700 employees are bedridden with coronavirus and there are about 20 casualties,” he added.
Earlier, the union power secretary, in his letter to the state chief secretaries, had acknowledged the role of electricity sector personnel in maintaining power supply. He had directed the states to hold mass vaccination camps to cover this category on priority.
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