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PANAJI
As it is difficult to manage a vital electricity department with increasing number non-perfoming staff the Power minister Nilesh Cabral being upset with the situation has warned action on non-perfoming staff and requested the Chief Minister to workout a method such as voluntory retirement scheme to remove such personnel.
Power Minister Nilesh Cabral held a meeting with Chief Minister at his official resident on Monday. Speaking to media after the meeting Cabral told media about the problems faced by the power department.
“I will tell Chief Minister that there are many electricity workers who drink alcohol and can’t work. Some of such staff use political pressure to get transfer on a post with less work. We have to make some system to remove such non-performing workers. I will move a note to the Chief Minister regarding this. The non-working staff will be given voluntary retirement,” said Cabral. He said that the functioning of power department has been affected due to the non-perfoming staff.
Meanwhile, Cabral declined any concession for domestic consumers as people use maximum power.
“People have increased powerload. People have put AC in their houses illegally. Cabral claimed that there are cases of increased power points. some have installed ACs and other appliances without requisite permission causing feeders to trip. So government will not give any concession for domestic consumers”, said Cabral.
Cabral also said that charging a minimum demand charges will be considered for domestic users. Presently government is charging minimum demand charges to only high power consumers.
