Assistant engineers seek better wages
Manish Sirhindi/TNS

Panipat, October 17
Claiming to have achieved a record revenue collection of over Rs 400 crore for the power utility, assistant engineers in the state have demanded a better pay scale. The revenues collected by the power utility this year went up by 30 per cent as compared to the corresponding period last year, with Gurgaon topping the charts with a collection of Rs 167 crore among all circles of the power utility.

President of the Haryana Power Engineers Association RS Dahiya said the achievement was made possible by assistant engineers, who were the lowest paid in country. He said as per the recommendations of the pay commission, assistant engineers in the power utilities in other states were getting higher pay scales, but in Haryana they were ignored completely.

The assistant engineers are given a pay scale of Rs 9,300- 34,500 with initial salary of Rs 12,090 and grade pay of Rs 5,400.

He said even state government assistant engineers were paid better. In Punjab Powercom, assistant engineer’s starting salary was Rs 16,680 with grade pay of Rs 5,900, Dahiya said. In UP, the starting pay of assistant engineers in the power utility was Rs 17,740 with grade pay of Rs 5,400.