Even as protests by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) employees intensified following the Corporation’s decision to terminate the services of Director (Generation) Harjeet Singh and suspend the chief engineer of the Ropar and Goindwal Sahib thermal plants, a deeper structural issue has come into focus: PSPCL is currently operating with only two full-time directors from its cadre, raising concerns over decision-making and governance in the power sector. The Punjab government had fired Director (Generation) Harjit Singh and suspended the chief engineer over ‘discrepancies’ in fuel cost management at state-run thermal power plants. Notably, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) was unbundled into PSPCL and the Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL) on April 16, 2010. Over the years, director-level posts such as Administration, Commercial, Distribution, Generation, Finance, Human Resources (HR) and Technical were created across the two corporations. Of these, the post of Director (Technical) is in PSTCL, where the position is currently filled. However, on the PSPCL side, only Director (Finance) S K Beri and Director (Commercial) Inderpal Singh remain as the …