On a call by All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) power engineers across the nation held protest meetings in different states including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Tamilnadu, Uttrakhand, during lunchtime to support the farmers. who are agitating for the last 13 days.. Farmers are demanding the repealing of all three agriculture laws and the electricity amendme...

 You are aware that the directions of the Central Government bidding process for privatisation of the Power Department of Chandigarh UT was started and accelerated despite continuous massive protest of power employees.   2. Pre bidding conference was going on on 01st December when Hon'ble Haryana and Punjab High Court issued stay orders till further orders.   3. Copy of writ petition an...

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Thursday extended its support to farmers' agitation and urged the central government to scrap the recently enacted farm laws. 'AIPEF fully supports the struggle of farmers and urges the central government to scrap the farming laws recently passed in Parliament and protect the power subsidy of farmers by withdrawing the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020, and s...

 All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) fully supports the struggle of farmers and urges the central government to scrap the farming laws recently passed in parliament and protect the power subsidy of farmers by withdrawing the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020, and standard bidding document, said VK Gupta spokesperson of the federation. The struggle of farmers is against the economic policy of the centr...

Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have been agitating at the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana for a week now. While their protest is centered around the three contentious farm laws passed by the Centre, the farmers are also against the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020.  Farmers fear the growing privatisation of the power sector and don’t trust the state governments to pay t...

The high court bench of justices Jitendra Chauhan and Vivek Puri acted on the plea of UT Powermen Union, a worker’s collective that had challenged the move to privatise 100% distribution and supply functions of the electricity wing of UT’s engineering department. Even as the detailed order was awaited, by the evening, the administration said it will file a review petition. “We...

Power sector employees including engineers, today held nationwide protests, seeking the withdrawal of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, scraping of standard bidding document (SBD) and opposed the privatization of power distribution companies (Discoms) in states and union territories. All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) organised protest demonstrations in Jammu, Srinagar, Leh and other p...

Power sector employees on Thursday held nationwide protests against the government''s decision to privatize discoms, the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) said. They also demanded withdrawal of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 and scrapping of the standard bidding document (SBD). "Lakhs of power sector employees including engineers, today held nationwide protests seeking...

From a region that was perennially in darkness just six years ago and then to emerge as a power-surplus State is no mean achievement. This is exactly where Telangana stands now, thanks to the farsighted policies and capacity addition in power generation initiated by the TRS government in a short span of time since 2014. All these efforts may take a beating if the Centre has its way in imposing mandatory purchase o...

Power engineers across the country including Punjab, Haryana and J&K will protest on November 26 against the privatisation policies of the Central Government, V K Gupta spokesperson of All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) said today. The AIPEF is demanding to scrap Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 and standard bidding document (SBD) for the privatisation of electricity. The SBD document proposes Elect...