Power engineers across the country shall resort to token work boycott
and hold protest meetings on 3rd February against privatization
policies of government oo India.
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Chairman Shailendra Dubey in a letter to Prime Minister that power engineers and engineers are grieved over the central government’s move towards the power sector
privatization through Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 & Standard Bidding
Document for total privatization of distribution of electricity.
AIPEF spokesperson V K Gupta said that the policy of Privatisation was
slowly destroying the public sector across the country while giving
huge benefits to selected corporates.
Privatization and targeted benefits to chosen corporates was the root cause
of farmers' agitation, he said.
He expressed solidarity to struggling
organisations of peasants whose one of the main demands is
withdrawal of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020.
AIPEF demands withdrawal process of privatization of electricity from public
the sector to private companies in states and union territories. The other demands
are scraping of electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 & standard bidding document for
total privatization of distribution of electricity and reintegrate all power utilities
in states with function components of generation, transmission, and distribution
like KSEB Ltd & HPSEB Ltd.