Hyderabad: Over 3,000 employees of the Telangana State Transco (TS Transco) and Genco have been infected with Coronavirus during the first and second Covid wave since March 2020, and over 80 employees lost their lives, acknowledged TS Transco and Genco CMD Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao on Saturday, even as the employees opine they were by and large left to fend for themselves.
Rao, speaking to mediapersons possibly for the first time since the pandemic began, on the occasion of handing over a cheque of Rs 70 lakh to NIMS, Hyderabad to purchase ventilators, stubbornly defended the management role, saying, “we have done our best. No one can fault me. We did everything possible. We gave the best support anyone could have given.”
However, power company employees strongly pooh-poohed the claims, saying that there were more positive cases and deaths than what was being accepted by their CMD. They claimed that over 5,000 staff were infected and 97 died as per the information…