JAMMU, DECEMBER 21: Three-day long agitation by the Power Development Department employees, which caused enormous inconvenience to the people due to outages, was called off on Monday midnight following an agreement reached between administration and representatives of the striking employees.
An announcement ending the agitation was amaze during wee hours of Tuesday by Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr. Raghav Langer and Sachin Tickoo, one of the leaders of striking employees, in their separate interactions with the media persons.
“The strike has been called off. An agreement has been reached with the striking employees and they will resume work immediately. The employees have been directed to restore power supply in the affected areas forthwith so that the people don’t face any further problems,” Dr. Langer said.
Asserting that the Government was positive towards the Power employees and their major demands had already been conceded, the Divisional Commissioner said that cause of the employees and power reforms will go together.
Sachin Tickoo, one of the leaders of striking employees, said the deadlock ended following marathon meetings between civil administration and representatives of the Unions of striking employees.
Confirming that the agitation has been called off, Tickoo said they are satisfied with the administration’s response towards their demands.
He said their all issues have been addressed.
On joint venture, he said it has been put on hold and all stakeholders will examine it afresh. Tickoo said the Government will create CPOs in every district.
He said the staff will start restoration of power supply where it has been affected immediately.
Many areas had plunged into darkness following indefinite strike by an over 20,000 employees of the power transmission and distribution corporations across the UT since Saturday. The administration had called army to restore power supply,
