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ITC trainees disrupt GESCOM board meeting

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, JAN. 6. The agitating trainees of the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) and members of the All India Students Federation today disrupted the board meeting of Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company.

They also shouted slogans against the corporation and State Government for not conceding their demands of recruiting ITC trainees and reserving 50 per cent of the posts of assistant linemen in the corporation and other electricity companies.

The Managing Director of KPTCL, V. Madhu, presided over the board meeting.

He told the protesters that KPTCL had already submitted a proposal to the Government to fill 2,300 vacant posts in the corporation and other electricity companies.

He added that the corporation had also informed the Government that it was ready to bear the financial burden of recruiting additional hands.

Pending

However, he said that the proposal was pending with the Finance Department and once it is cleared, the process of filling the vacancies would be taken up immediately. Mr. Madhu said that the KPTCL Board had also taken a decision to give priority to ITC trainees during the recruitment and 30 per cent of the posts of assistant linemen would be reserved for them.

Maheshkumar Rathod, leader of the federation, told Mr. Madhu that a decision had been taken by KPTCL earlier that all posts of assistant linemen would be reserved for ITC trained candidates.

He also wanted an assurance from Mr. Madhu that at least 50 per cent of the posts will be reserved for them.

The Managing Director said that a decision on increasing the quota of reservation could only be taken the KPTCL Board.

The Managing Director assured them that he would plead their case at the KPTCL Board in Bangalore on Friday.

Memorandum

Earlier, more than 100 volunteers of the federation and ITC trainees forced their way into the meeting hall at the GESCOM office and urged Mr. Madhu to hear them out before the Board meeting.

The protesters also submitted a memorandum to Mr. Madhu demanding that 50 per cent of the posts be reserved for ITC trained candidates.

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