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Shortage of powermen is affecting attraction enactment of Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (Mescom), which covers Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Shivamogga, and Chikkamagaluru districts, said Mescom president K. Harish Kumar.
Talking to reporters successful Mangaluru connected Saturday, Mr. Kumar said, arsenic against 9,248 sanctioned posts, 4028 posts were vacant. Of this, 2,683 were vacant posts of powermen. The shortage of powerfulness men was affecting attraction works of Mescom, particularly during monsoon.
Mr. Kumar said powermen posts were mostly held by those from extracurricular the district. They person been moving successful the Mescom for 3 years and past moving to their autochthonal places, which creates a vacancy. Not galore radical were applying for the station arsenic the recruitment was being done astatine the State-level. Mr. Kumar said helium has suggested carrying retired the recruitment astatine the territory oregon divisional level, which would pull much persons for the post.
17.01 lakh covered
Mr. Kumar said arsenic galore arsenic 17.01 lakh customers successful Mescom limits were being covered nether the Gruha Jyothi scheme. The authorities has paid ₹2,099 crore successful the signifier of subsidy to Mescom till August. The authorities was yet to wage astir ₹600 crore towards energy measure for h2o proviso and thoroughfare lights of panchayats.
In bid to amended powerfulness supply, enactment was connected successful 18 sub-stations, and support has been fixed for 9 much sub-stations. Mescom officials person been asked to decently code the occupation of predominant powerfulness failures successful immoderate areas of Mescom. The officials person been told to guarantee that transformer nonaccomplishment repair enactment is carried retired wrong 24 hours, helium said.
