Shimla, Feb. 6 -- Facing a financial crunch, the Himachal government is preparing to abolish about 700 posts in the Electricity Board.

Protesting against the move, the electricity board engineers and employees held a demonstration outside the board headquarters in Shimla on Wednesday and demanded that the government should take back the move to abolish posts.

Hiralal Verma, convener of the Joint Action Committee of engineers and employees, said that a big rally will be organized against the state government in Hamirpur on February 11 and after that next outline of the agitation in all the districts will be decided.

Verma said that the Board of Directors of the Electricity Board has approved the abolition of 700 posts which has also bee...