Congress councilors who took care of the mayor of Thrissur MK Varghese on Tuesday and demanded the end of the strike department of the electricity of corporation over the strength of the staff and the release of temporary workers. | Photo Credit: Kk Najeeb
On Tuesday after employees at the Electric Corporation Department came out on an indefinite strike, he threw the power outage throughout the city, which lasted several hours.
The Blaciut, who started around noon on busy MoD feeders and spreads to several sections, left, households and vital civic divisions in the dark.
Once the complaints were flooded, the authorities of the electricity department, the striking staff refused to devote themselves to and forced most of the city to depend on generators. Almost 20 complaints related to power were officially registered from the whole city throughout the day, while rumors about a strike that was involved in anxiety between people and traders.
Meanwhile, the striking electricity staff presented Dharn and shouted the slogans, although the councilor of the congress led by the leader of the opposition Rajan J. Pallan siege the siege to protest the mayor.
The joint departments of the electricity department of the company launched a strike requiring the withdrawal of the local government department to reduce the sanction from 229 to 103 and were looking for a salary revision that was waiting for seven years. The sudden staff crisis caused extensive disturbances, stopping complaints, and led to lessons by a long reduction in energy across several sections, including the MO Road feeder and areas with severe commercial activities.
Workers lose their jobs
More than 100 temporary workers have already cost a drastic reduction in contributions, the trade union manager said. The number of electric workers was reduced from 50 to 18 and lines from 51 to only 5. Workers claimed that mowing so many contributions in the department that must operate 24/7 is unjustable.
Currently, the company’s electricity department has approximately 40,000 consumers spread over 12.5 km 2. Although there was a requirement to increase sanctioned contributions, including the reader of the meter, the department was facing a mass reduction, they said.
Although KSEB employees have long received their salary revision, employees of Electricity Corporation – despite similar service conditions – it was said that their revision would only be carried out after the employee pattern was completed. Since the government could not follow, the long -standing revision was further delayed.
According to the 1991 employees, from the current 229 employees, there are only 110 permanent, while the rest is temporary.
Published – 16 September 2025 20:47
