All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) wants to draw your attention towards a proposal to amend Electricity Act 2003 through Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021. On 17/04/2020 the Ministry of Power had put on its website the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 containing proposals for amendment of Electricity Act 2003. Comments were invited to be submitted within 21 days and later the date was extended to 5th...

1.  Bill not put in public domain  and not available in the Ministry of Power website. 2. Comments/ objections not invited from public, consumers, states and other stakeholders.           3.  No opportunity given to stakeholders to file comments/ objections 4.   As electricity is a concurrent subject it is a constitutio...

Power engineers and employees on Wednesday staged a nationwide protest against privatisation policies of the central government and demanded to scrap the process to privatise discoms in states and Union territories. ''Power engineers and employees observed nationwide protest against privatisation policies of the government of India and demanded the withdrawal process of privatisation of electrici...

  The government will enable electricity connections portability to consumers by introducing competition in the power distribution space and kickstart a Rs 3 lakh crore reforms scheme for state power distribution companies, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Monday. “The distribution companies across the country are monopolies, either governme...

All India Power Engineers  Federation (AIPEF) had come to know from media reports and website sources that Govt. of India intends to introduce the Electricity (Amendment) Bill -2021 in the coming budget session of parliament.   2. It may be recalled that on 17/4/2020, the Ministry of Power had issued public notice inviting comments and suggestions on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill -2020. The A...

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) wants to bring your kind notice following more points against privatisation of the Power Department of  UT’s.           2. In the second meeting of high level Committee held on 17/9/2020 the two major decisions taken were... “(v) It was decided that MOP / concerned UT will convene meetings with the stak...

1. The Ministry of Power in its meeting of 12/05/2020 took the decision to privatise the electricity departments of union territories and set the deadlines for completing privatisation as 31/01/2021. 2. The standard bid documents (SBD) for privatisation exercise were not ready and draft SBD were issued as late as 20/09/2020 with the last date of submission of comments / objections as 05/10/220 (later ext...

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)  considers the reported actions  being taken against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta as a blatant attempt to suppress the voice of truth and freedom of the Press. Paranjoy  as Editor of Economic and Political Weekly Mumbai  had investigated and reported major scams  such as scam of  over invoicing of Impo...

Power sector engineers would go for token work boycott across the country on February 3 to protest against the move to privatise distribution companies by the central government, the All India Power Engineers'' Federation (AIPEF) said on Monday. "Power engineers across the country shall resort to token work boycott and hold protest meetings on 3rd February against privatization policies o...

  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  priva...