AIPEF to observe token boycott-of work on February 3 to protest privatization, Jan 18, 2021

Posted On : March 04, 2021

 

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.