Why Is Punjab Electricity Departmentâs Move To Hire Jio Backfiring? With a five-year contract with Vodafone coming to an end, PSPCL changing its service provider to the Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio has caused an uproar in Punjab in light of the farmers' protest. Staff at the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited. Photo: pspcl.in Government13/Mar/2021 Chandigarh: Technically speaking, there was nothing wrong in the latest move of Punjab electricity department aka Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to shift its telecom provider for its 14,000 field employees to Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio. PSPCL chairman A. Venu Prasad said that SIM cards of employees were being changed because the five-year-old contract of the current telecom firm â Vodafone â was going to expire later this month. In the new tender in which three telecom firms, including the existing service provider participated, Jio emerged as the lowest bidder, offering its services at Rs 60 lakh a year less than the outgoing service provider, he said.