The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has urged chief ministers to seek more time from the central government for submission of comments on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021.

"AIPEF has urged all the Chief Ministers and Lt. Governors to seek at least three months'' time from the central government for the submission of comments and suggestions by all the stakeholders, particularly electricity employees and consumers, on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 after putting the draft in the public domain," V K Gupta, a spokesperson of the AIPEF, said in a statement.

AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey has written a letter to all the chief ministers with a copy to the principal secretaries (power) of all states and chairpersons of state discoms "to take up the issue of (unnecessarily) rushing through the bill".