Without wage for over a yr, HEC workers search redressal, might transfer courtroom
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By PTI
RANCHI: Around 1,300 workers of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), the PSU that some years in the past constructed a launch pad for ISRO, haven’t been paid their salaries for over a yr forcing them to dwell in penury, and now they’ve threatened to maneuver courtroom if the difficulty will not be addressed quickly.
The workers alleged that due to this example, they’re unable to pay their kids’s schooling charges or deal with ailing members of the family correctly, and a few of them together with officers have began promoting fruits or tea to make each ends meet.
Workers and officers of the Ranchi-based PSU have shaped a mixed discussion board, HEC Adhikari Evam Karmachari Jankalyan Sangh, to struggle the battle.
Its president Prem Shankar Paswan instructed PTI that they’ve drawn the eye of President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, the NHRC and others to their plight by means of emails on January 23.
“If our problem is not resolved soon, we will have to move court in February,” Paswan stated. The whole wage due for officers is for 15 months whereas that for employees is for 12 months, stated Subhash Chandra, a deputy supervisor rank official.
The chairman and managing director of BHEL, who sits in Delhi, holds the extra cost of CMD of HEC. The official didn’t reply to cellphone calls, messages and e-mail by PTI until the publication of this report.
The firm, arrange in 1958, was once one of many main suppliers of capital tools in India for metal, mining, railways, energy, defence, house analysis, nuclear and strategic sectors.
Employees are staging protests in opposition to non-payment of salaries since November 2022.
“My mother died without treatment. My senior colleague’s wife died and he had no money to hire a vehicle to carry her body so he took it inside a car trunk. Shopkeepers don’t give us goods on credit. We can’t afford to send kids to school. We will die here,” Shashi Kumar, 35, a deputy supervisor at HEC, broke down whereas speaking to PTI.
Despite a number of revival makes an attempt and the High Court of Jharkhand directing the central and state governments to look into the issues, the state of affairs at HEC didn’t enhance.
A employee, Ramjanam Sharma, stated he ekes out by promoting fruits whereas a number of others together with IIT pass-outs are pressured to promote tea, fritters or flowers for existence.
Purnendu Dutt Mishra, 37, who’s a supervisor at HEC, stated: “India used to import ISRO’s launching pad at a lot greater charges.
In 2005-06, we received an order. An organisation hidden within the nation offered the indigenously constructed launching pad at a lot much less value.
“After the launch of GSLV Mark III on December 18, 2014, the PSU had said in a statement: “It is a matter of nice delight for HEC to have contributed to the Second Launch Pad Project of ISRO at Sriharikota. With each launch from the second launch pad, ISRO makes HEC proud.”
Mishra alleged that mismanagement, corruption and dangerous insurance policies had been behind the plight of HEC.
“Unlike private organisations, we don’t work for profit but work for the nation. We have saved a huge foreign exchange,” he stated.
Dr Rana S Chakravarty, who retired from HEC as Director of Marketing on January 16, is protecting his fingers crossed that the corporate shall be again on monitor.
“HEC has played a stellar role in India’s growth. We are focussing on certain specific areas. We have a Rs 1300 crore work order. Hopefully, it will be on track again,” he stated.
According to the HEC’s newest annual report, the corporate bagged orders totalling over Rs 188 crore in FY 21-22.
“However, the pending up-gradation / modernisation, as well as severe stress of working capital and impact of COVID-19, adversely affected the financial performance of the company and it could achieve turnover of Rs 184.69 crore against Rs 202.76 crore during the previous year,” it stated.
HEC registered a internet lack of Rs 256.07 crore in 2021-22. “Frequent breakdown of the ageing machinery has affected the execution of orders while also indirectly affecting the cash flow cycle,” the annual report stated.
RANCHI: Around 1,300 workers of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), the PSU that some years in the past constructed a launch pad for ISRO, haven’t been paid their salaries for over a yr forcing them to dwell in penury, and now they’ve threatened to maneuver courtroom if the difficulty will not be addressed quickly.
The workers alleged that due to this example, they’re unable to pay their kids’s schooling charges or deal with ailing members of the family correctly, and a few of them together with officers have began promoting fruits or tea to make each ends meet.
Workers and officers of the Ranchi-based PSU have shaped a mixed discussion board, HEC Adhikari Evam Karmachari Jankalyan Sangh, to struggle the battle.
Its president Prem Shankar Paswan instructed PTI that they’ve drawn the eye of President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, the NHRC and others to their plight by means of emails on January 23.
“If our problem is not resolved soon, we will have to move court in February,” Paswan stated. The whole wage due for officers is for 15 months whereas that for employees is for 12 months, stated Subhash Chandra, a deputy supervisor rank official.
The chairman and managing director of BHEL, who sits in Delhi, holds the extra cost of CMD of HEC. The official didn’t reply to cellphone calls, messages and e-mail by PTI until the publication of this report.
The firm, arrange in 1958, was once one of many main suppliers of capital tools in India for metal, mining, railways, energy, defence, house analysis, nuclear and strategic sectors.
Employees are staging protests in opposition to non-payment of salaries since November 2022.
“My mother died without treatment. My senior colleague’s wife died and he had no money to hire a vehicle to carry her body so he took it inside a car trunk. Shopkeepers don’t give us goods on credit. We can’t afford to send kids to school. We will die here,” Shashi Kumar, 35, a deputy supervisor at HEC, broke down whereas speaking to PTI.
Despite a number of revival makes an attempt and the High Court of Jharkhand directing the central and state governments to look into the issues, the state of affairs at HEC didn’t enhance.
A employee, Ramjanam Sharma, stated he ekes out by promoting fruits whereas a number of others together with IIT pass-outs are pressured to promote tea, fritters or flowers for existence.
Purnendu Dutt Mishra, 37, who’s a supervisor at HEC, stated: “India used to import ISRO’s launching pad at a lot greater charges.
In 2005-06, we received an order. An organisation hidden within the nation offered the indigenously constructed launching pad at a lot much less value.
“After the launch of GSLV Mark III on December 18, 2014, the PSU had said in a statement: “It is a matter of nice delight for HEC to have contributed to the Second Launch Pad Project of ISRO at Sriharikota. With each launch from the second launch pad, ISRO makes HEC proud.”
Mishra alleged that mismanagement, corruption and dangerous insurance policies had been behind the plight of HEC.
“Unlike private organisations, we don’t work for profit but work for the nation. We have saved a huge foreign exchange,” he stated.
Dr Rana S Chakravarty, who retired from HEC as Director of Marketing on January 16, is protecting his fingers crossed that the corporate shall be again on monitor.
“HEC has played a stellar role in India’s growth. We are focussing on certain specific areas. We have a Rs 1300 crore work order. Hopefully, it will be on track again,” he stated.
According to the HEC’s newest annual report, the corporate bagged orders totalling over Rs 188 crore in FY 21-22.
“However, the pending up-gradation / modernisation, as well as severe stress of working capital and impact of COVID-19, adversely affected the financial performance of the company and it could achieve turnover of Rs 184.69 crore against Rs 202.76 crore during the previous year,” it stated.
HEC registered a internet lack of Rs 256.07 crore in 2021-22. “Frequent breakdown of the ageing machinery has affected the execution of orders while also indirectly affecting the cash flow cycle,” the annual report stated.
