Review of Power Theft and supply maintenance: Engineers transferred in Uttarakhand

The energy secretary directed the removal of seven engineers of Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani and Udhamsinghnagar with immediate effect. Also, instructed to remove the engineers who were in one place, for the last five years. Transfers till linemen will be done in the next seven days. Power secretary Radhika Jha reviewed several points including electricity theft, line loss, revenue recovery on Wednesday at the UPCL headquarters.

During this period, she expressed strong displeasure after giving orders regarding uninterrupted supply, negligence in non-full recovery of power. On the poor supply, she issued transfer orders for Roorkee ASE , ASE , EE of Haridwar SIDCUL, EE of Mohanpur, EE of Roorkee Nagar, EE of Dehradun North, SDO of Haridwar SIIDCUL. Jha chided the management for not transferring engineers working at one place. Also, transfer orders would be released for AE-JE working at a particular place for more the 5 years. All Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and Linemen were asked to do the transfer within seven days.[Source; uttarakhand news ]