Uttarakhand: Human Rights Commission sent notice to MD of Energy Corporations and Upanal, allegations of harassment of employees

In Uttarakhand, notice has been issued to the MD of UPNL (Uttarakhand Ex-Serviceman Welfare Corporation Ltd.) along with the Managing Directors of Energy Corporations. The Human Rights Commission has given the notice on the complaint of contract employees. To which these corporations have to respond now. The matter is of great negligence in the facilities of contract employees.

Contract employees in energy corporations are being deprived of medical facilities. This is the situation when it is an emergency service and many employees work in it amidst great risk. The contract employees of energy corporations themselves have claimed that they are not getting any medical facilities. For this, they have also knocked the door of the Human Rights Commission.

Contract workers in Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited in the state are not getting health facilities. Vidyut Samvidha Ekta Manch has also complained to the Human Rights Commission in this matter. In their complaint, they said that the employees are not getting group insurance, cashless golden card facility or cashless medical facility at unlimited expenses. In such a situation, the commission should issue instructions to the corporations to provide medical facilities to the employees.

There are about 2000 contract employees in the corporations, who are not getting medical facilities. Due to this, apart from the corporations, the MD of Upanal has also been given a notice and asked for a reply. The Human Rights Commission has asked the Managing Directors that at what level medical facilities are being provided to the employees and what is the status of free medical facilities at present? Provide full details of this.

Along with this, it was also clarified by the commission that the health facility of the employees is their human right, so contract employees should get these facilities. Let us tell you that there has been a voice often about providing necessary facilities to contract and outsourced employees in the corporations. Vinod Kavi, President of Vidyut Contract Employees Organization, says that the employees are not getting medical facilities for a long time, while the corporation management is being informed repeatedly about this. There are about two thousand such employees in the upper corporations, who are constantly putting forward their point for this facility, but the management is not ready to listen to it.

Vinod Kavi said that after the corporation management did not pay attention to this matter, the employees have finally approached the Human Rights Commission, from where notices have also been issued. In such a situation, the employees are hoping that now they will be able to avail this essential facility and a concrete policy or system will be prepared by the corporation to provide medical facilities.