Dharamshala, Feb. 7 -- Protesting against the Himachal government's plan to abolish about 700 posts in the electricity board, the engineers and employees of the board suspended work for two hours across the state on Friday.

The protest call was given by the joint action committee of engineers and employees and they demanded that all the posts put in the surplus pool be restored.

Hiralal Verma, co-convener of the joint action committee of engineers and employees, alleged that this is a one-sided decision of the management class and its process was not logical. "While the promotion of employees will be affected in these abolished posts, there will be additional burden on the employees at the workplace," he said.

He accused the state gove...