15 lakh power sector employees to go on 2-day strike against privatisation


By MYBRANDBOOK


15 lakh power sector employees to go on 2-day strike against privatisation

The All-India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) announced that around 15 lakh power sector employees along with the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE), has decided to go for two days nationwide strike on 23rd and 24th February to protest against privatisation announced by the Centre.

 

AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey listed the main demands of power sector employees that include withdrawal of Electricity Bill 2021, scrap decision of privatisation of profit-making power departments of Union Territories Chandigarh, Dadra Nagar Haveli Daman & Diu and Puducherry, integrate all separate power utilities in states like KSEB Ltd in Kerala and HPSEB Ltd in Himachal Pradesh, implement old pension scheme for all power employees recruited after unbundling of SEB’s, regularise all outsourced power employees like Telangana government has done.

 

The AIPEF statement said, “National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE) has decided to resort to two days nationwide strike along with call given by All India Trade Unions on 23rd and 24th February.”

 

According to the statement, the NCCOEEE has also decided that core committee leaders of NCCOEEE will meet Governor Punjab on February 1 and handover memorandum to him against privatization of Chandigarh UT Power Department.

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