Power sector employees finalise action plan, Dec 5, 2021

Posted On : January 20, 2022

 Power sector employees and engineers under the banner of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) has finalised an action plan in all states to oppose the Electricity Amendment Bill 2021. The employees will hold day-long massive demonstrations on December 8 at all the power utility headquarters, projects, and work sites, said V K Gupta, a spokesperson of the All-India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF). The meeting of the NCCOEEE was held in New Delhi on the December 3 and was attended by the Shailendra Dubey Chairman, Rathnakar Rao Secretary-General A K Jain and Prashant Chaturvedi from AIPEF, Prashant Choudhary and Subhash Lamba from EEFI. Mohan Sharma and Mohd. Samuela from AIFEE, R K Trivedi and Abhimanyu Dhankar of Diploma engineers, Samar Sinha and RK Sharma from AIPF, and others. In the meeting, it was further decided to hold a central-level protest will be held on December 15 in New Delhi. Further, in case the government attempts to place the bill in either house of Parliament, NCCOEEE constituents will resort to spontaneous work boycotts and start day-long demonstrations at all electricity work centers. V K Gupta said that this bill is trumpeted to bring power sector reforms while it is the document that will facilitate the death knell to the power distribution companies. The bill is to facilitate the private players to make open loot by making use of the infrastructure of electricity distribution utility without any investment. / DW bureau /