AIPEF wants to bring to your kind notice that the situation prevailing in Haryana power utilities is not conducive to efficient and clean working. A clear trend has emerged whereby dedicated, honest and committed power engineers and office bearers of NIPEF & HPEA are being victimized one by one which is giving an extremely negative and wrong signal across the power engineers.  i)  On 30 Jul...

The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed three Bills to counter the Centre’s farm laws. The resolution mentioned that the three laws were "anti-farmer". The Vidhan Sabha had earlier passed a resolution rejecting these laws. "We reject the three agriculture laws as well as the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020. These laws are against the interests of the farmers of Punjab, Haryana and...

The draft standard bidding documents (SBDs) published by the Ministry of Power outlines the process for privatisation of state-owned distribution utilities. The SBDs consist of a guidance note, a draft request for proposal (RfP), draft shareholders/ share acquisition agreements, draft transfer scheme and a draft bulk supply agreement. Prayas (Energy Group)’s comments on the SBDs highlights the need...

 In continuation of All India Power Engineers' Federation comments to subject cited documents, we wish to submit further comments and documents which may be considered as our additional comments to Ministry of Power 1.   Article in Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai, dated 10th October 2020 1.1 The article titled Electricity (amendment) Bill 220 “inviting a bigger crisis&rdquo...

  The proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 aims to reduce subsidies and push for privatisation, especially in the distribution segment of the power sector. Undertaking structural changes in a core sector at a time of crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects defies logic. The proposed amendments are not only anti-people, but they also fail to address the long-term crises in the se...

Please refer to the MoP notice dated 09 Oct by which the last date for submission of comments on Subject cited matter has been extended to 12 Oct. AIPEF had requested for extending date to 31 March 2021 . The date of 12Oct is not agreed to  on account of the following. 1. MoP has not explained anywhere why it is rushing ahead with Privatising Distribution  while not giving sufficient time to st...

The intention of the Ministry of Power in rushing through Standard BidDocuments (SBD)  is not to reform the power sector but to thurst privatization of the power sector across the country, said V K Gupta spokesperson All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF). AIPEF in its submission of comments  has written that   before considering the SBD proposal, the fundamental issue of privatizati...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to withdraw a privatisation plan for electricity distribution companies, after nearly five hour meeting with protesting employee unions which began an indefinite strike a day ago. As per the agreement signed after the meeting held by state power minister Shrikant Sharma and its finance minister Suresh Khanna, Uttar Pradesh agreed to take back the ...

The employees in the power department of the Uttar Pradesh government began an indefinite complete work boycott from Monday in response to a call given by the UP Vidyut Karmachari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti to protest against the proposed privatisation of the Varanasi discom. The government said it has made all the preparations to deal with the agitation. The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) management ...

ALL INDIA POWER ENGINEERS FEDERATION No. 78 - 2020 / UP Strike                      03 -10 - 2020 All Office Bearers - AIPEF Chairman / Secretary General - SIPEF / WIPEF / EIPEF / NIPEF President / General Secretary - All AIPEF Constituents Sub : Strike being imposed in UP   UP POWER EMPLOYEES & ENGINEE...