Govt of India has sent a written communication to Sanyukta Kisan Morcha on 09 December stating that Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 will not be placed in Parliament before discussions with all stakeholders / Sanyukta Kisan Morcha. 2. Constituents of NCCOEEE being the foremost National Federations of Power Employees and Engineers, are the major stakeholders in the Electricity industry. Government opted...

  The employees of the Electricity Department on Wednesday abstained from work and staged a protest against the Centre’s move to privatise power distribution in the Union Territory. The protest was held in front of the Electricity Department premises, ahead of the scheduled meeting, convened by the Centre with the employees on Thursday and Friday. The workers have expressed...

They pledged to resort to a total work boycott the day the Bill is tabled in the current session of Parliament. ower men on Wednesday held protest meetings in various cities of the state, joining the countrywide stir in response to a call by the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCEEE) to oppose the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 ...

On the call of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE), power engineers and employees on Wednesday staged a nationwide protest against privatisation policies of the central government and demanded that Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 be withdrawn, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) spokesperson VK Gupta said. Gupta said thousands of power s...

  The amendments will allow private distribution companies to selectively access high-value customers, and give them access to distribution networks without any investments or any responsibility to maintain them, CM Stalin pointed out Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday seeking his urgent intervention to defer the proposed amendments...

December 8, 2021: On the call of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers ( NCCOEEE), power engineers and employees on Wednesday staged a nationwide protest against privatization policies of the central government and demanded that Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 be withdrawn, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) spokesperson V.K. Gupta said. Thousands of power sector ...

  Thousands of power sector employees and engineers held protest meetings in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttrakhand. Telangana, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, , Punjab, Puducherry, and other states seeking withdrawal of Electricity Amendment Bill 2021, which has been listed for introduction in the winter session of Parliament. Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 should no...

  The Punjab government has marked a vigilance probe into the power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed between 2007 and 2017, the decade that the SAD-BJP alliance held power, and has asked the chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) justice Mehtab Singh Gill (retd) to conduct an inquiry and submit the report within four weeks. The government ordered the inquiry into the PPAs after presenting...

Sri E A S Sarma IAS (Retd) former Secretary Power, Govt of India has written letter to CM's of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana on Central Govt move to amend Electricity Act 2003. 2. Copy of the letter is attached for wide circulation and publicity. ...

The Centre has recently introduced a Bill to amend the Electricity Act of 2003 which, among others, will imply abridging the States' autonomy in the matter of renegotiating the existing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and the terms and conditions of issuing licenses to private players in the electricity distribution segment.   "Electricity" is a subject listed among the Concurrent items in t...