Those whose eyes are blazed by the shine of fat pockets, security and safety of a government job is the thing to die for. With the current situation in industries almost grim, hardly anybody with suitable qualification can choose to be indifferent towards a job in quasi-government company. Even if that job does not have any glow like the ones in Information Technology industries have. For such people, state power companies of Maharashtra are offering too many jobs in coming days. The companies are moving with lightening speed to recruit new people now.
The candle makers in Maharashtra were happy with the state's energy scenario becaue it allowed them to make hay while sun shined. Scarcity of the rains has added fuel to the opposition's campaign against load shedding. Consumer organisations have already fired a salvo by questioning the motive behind the recent tariff hike. In this scenario, government can not take the issue of load shedding lightly.
The shortage of manpower in the power companies has hardly come under the glare of media reports. While more than half of the state is reeling under the dark, all three power companies in the state involved in generation, distribution and transmission of the electricity are heavily understaffed. According to estimates by the worker's unions in Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Limited (MSEDCL), about 32,000 posts are vacant in the company.
Actually, power companies have lost their aura for many years now. Those were the days when a job in a power company appeared bright in terms of perks. Situation is quite different now but if youths are still following the jobs, it is because halo surrounding the job, that is security, is still intact. Some illumined minds like me despised a job in MSEB then and I am sure quite a number of people like me must be still there. Because the spark of the talent never really blows itself off. When I was pursuing my diploma in electrical engineering, the future of a diploma holder in the stream appeared bleak. Because MSEB, the original company which was later tri-partitioned in 2005 has put a cap on the recruitment.
Fortunately enough, I never passed my diploma. For me, there was no shine in the field. Instead after many turn and returns, I finally settled for the journalism. Now I can understand that the decisions regarding electrical power are taken after considering power factor in politics rather than in generation plants. They are more interested in load sharing rather than load shedding. The dream of Maharashtra becoming a developed state appears to be an obscure one now what with daily downfall in the generation of electricity. The state need an electrifying personality, a firebrand leader to bring it on the track. But unfortunately, since last nine years what it has got are two politicians, cold as a refrigerator, whose only proof of existence was promises to make the state load shedding free. Earlier, Dilip Walse Patil used to say that the day will arrive in 2008 and now, Sunil Tatkare is saying it will arrive in 2012. Both were never charged up in true sense, but charges they have against them. Both have failed to enlighten masses as to why the citizens are not getting their due.
The candle makers in Maharashtra were happy with the state's energy scenario becaue it allowed them to make hay while sun shined. Scarcity of the rains has added fuel to the opposition's campaign against load shedding. Consumer organisations have already fired a salvo by questioning the motive behind the recent tariff hike. In this scenario, government can not take the issue of load shedding lightly.
The shortage of manpower in the power companies has hardly come under the glare of media reports. While more than half of the state is reeling under the dark, all three power companies in the state involved in generation, distribution and transmission of the electricity are heavily understaffed. According to estimates by the worker's unions in Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Limited (MSEDCL), about 32,000 posts are vacant in the company.
Actually, power companies have lost their aura for many years now. Those were the days when a job in a power company appeared bright in terms of perks. Situation is quite different now but if youths are still following the jobs, it is because halo surrounding the job, that is security, is still intact. Some illumined minds like me despised a job in MSEB then and I am sure quite a number of people like me must be still there. Because the spark of the talent never really blows itself off. When I was pursuing my diploma in electrical engineering, the future of a diploma holder in the stream appeared bleak. Because MSEB, the original company which was later tri-partitioned in 2005 has put a cap on the recruitment.
Fortunately enough, I never passed my diploma. For me, there was no shine in the field. Instead after many turn and returns, I finally settled for the journalism. Now I can understand that the decisions regarding electrical power are taken after considering power factor in politics rather than in generation plants. They are more interested in load sharing rather than load shedding. The dream of Maharashtra becoming a developed state appears to be an obscure one now what with daily downfall in the generation of electricity. The state need an electrifying personality, a firebrand leader to bring it on the track. But unfortunately, since last nine years what it has got are two politicians, cold as a refrigerator, whose only proof of existence was promises to make the state load shedding free. Earlier, Dilip Walse Patil used to say that the day will arrive in 2008 and now, Sunil Tatkare is saying it will arrive in 2012. Both were never charged up in true sense, but charges they have against them. Both have failed to enlighten masses as to why the citizens are not getting their due.
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