KPDCL employees to have golden cards soon, to be covered under welfare fund scheme for meeting health expenses: Chief Engineer
Srinagar, CNS, 13-Jan : Chief Engineer Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited (KPDCL) Aijaz Ahmed Dar on Thursday said that the department is working to provide golden health cards to its all employees including linemen so that they are covered under welfare fund scheme for meeting health expenditures.
He said the expenses of all the injured linemen of the department has been borne by the department and in the fresh case of injured lineman of Kulgam district.the department is duty bound to bear medical expenses.
“In the fresh case of lineman Shabir Ahmed Dar, working as a daily wager in the power department and was injured at Bogund, Kulgam on Sunday, the department will take the responsibility of all his medical expenses,” Dar said
The Chief Engineer KPDCL said that they will implement set Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) aggressively and procure latest equipment to minimize accidents and injuries to its staff including linemen while repairing the lines, transformers etc.
He, however, said that at times, department tries to raise funds for the family help of injured employees and not for medical help. “With new strategy in place, there will be a significant fall in accidents and injuries to employees in line of duty henceforth,” the CE said. (CNS)
