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Thursday, Feb 28, 2002

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Power staff unions form JAC

By Our Special Correspondent

Hyderabad Feb. 27. In a fresh development in the power sector, seven service organisations of AP Transco and AP Genco here today formed a Joint Action Committee for launching an agitation to solve common problems faced by them.

The unions/associations whose leaders deliberated on the issue before forming the JAC, were the APSEB Employees' Union (Regd No 1104), the majority and recognised union, the APSEB Engineers' Association, the APSEB Assistant Engineers' Association, both representing engineers in the AP Genco and AP Transco, the United Electricity Employees' Union affiliated to the CPI (M), the AP Genco Employees' Union, the APSEB SC/ST Employees' Association, the AP Genco Employees' Union and the AP Genco Chemists' Association. The president of the 1104 union, M. Venkataramana, was elected chairman of the JAC, and the president of the APSEB Engineers' Association, P. V. V. Satyanarayana, as secretary-general, and its associate president, K. Raghu, as treasurer. The JAC has two co-chairmen--P. Ratnakara Rao, president of APSEB Assistant Engineers' Association, and four secretaries representing other organisations.

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