All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has pointed out serious flaws in the bidding process of privatization of power distribution in union territories and has demanded that the ongoing bidding process be scrapped in the absence of central government clear cut approved guidelines. Privatization for the sake of privatization should not be carried out.

Spokesperson AIPEF, V K Gupta, said that the government is exploiting a huge crisis of pandemic to put its policy of privatization of the power sector and the draft National Electricity Policy 2021 that conflicts with the Electricity Act 2003 should be withdrawn.
“In the case of union territories, these are no guidelines issued by Govt. of India for competitive bidding under section 63 of Act 2003 for a distribution company. This is a gross anomaly in the present case. As such, before taking up the privatization of electricity distribution in any union territory the policy and parameters of competitive bidding must be finalized”, Gupta said while adding that the central government is pushing the competitive bidding of privatization of electricity wing of UT Chandigarh and Dadra Nagar Haveli Daman Diu.