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Communist Party of India (CPI) State Secretary G. Eswaraiah connected Wednesday (January 28) written to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, seeking his involution to resoluteness the long-pending problems faced by outsourced employees moving astatine the New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NEDCAP).
Mr. Eswaraiah said galore outsourced employees person been moving astatine NEDCAP for implicit 15 years, performing duties equivalent to regular unit but receiving meagre wages and without statutory benefits. He noted that NEDCAP, established successful 1980 nether the Energy Department, has played a important relation successful promoting renewable vigor and has received respective awards from some the Centre and the State.
Recalling recruitment practices, the CPI person said that from 1983, diploma, grade and engineering graduates were appointed arsenic absorption trainees and aboriginal absorbed arsenic imperishable employees. However, aft 1987, employees recruited for akin roles were continued lone arsenic declaration oregon outsourced staff.
Mr. Eswaraiah alleged that successful 2018, the past Vice-Chairman and Managing Director converted declaration employees into outsourced staffs and awarded outsource contracts without due tendering, causing hardship for implicit 100 families. Though the past NEDCAP Chairman reportedly recommended successful 2022 that outsourced unit beryllium reverted to declaration status, nary enactment was taken, helium said.
The CPI demanded conversion of outsourced unit into declaration employees, implementation of adjacent wage for adjacent work, proviso of EPF and household mishap insurance, transparent recruitment done committee support and roster strategy and strict enactment against officials progressive successful irregularities.
