The general secretary of the Union, Bhagmal Rana, said it was extreme callousness on the part of Administration to penalise the employees demanding their due. "The Union has taken up this matter seriously and has given a call to all the electricity employees of engineering wing in UT to observe a protest strike on February 10 in this regard," he said.

Rana alleged that the employees were upset over the Administration's indifference towards their long-pending demands, which mainly include release of PSEB scale to the left-out categories of employees and creation of additional posts to cope with the increasing work load. The Union has threatened to launch an agitation in case the Administration did not listen to their grievances immediately.