PATIALA: PSPCL engineers on Tuesday join engineers of power and employees from northern countries in protests throughout the day in Mantar Mantar New Delhi under the banner of the National Coordination Committee and Engineering (NCCOEEE) on the announcement of the unilateral central government for electricity pass ( Amendment) Bill 2021 in the Monsoon Parliament session at this time, said VK Gupta spokesman of all Indian Power Engineer Federations (AKPEF).
On the first day of four-day protests, Dharna engineers and employees were led by Chailendra Dubey Chairman AKICEF and Prashant Choudhary Convener.
On Tuesday engineers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, and Rajasthan participated.
Hundreds of engineers and employees from each country participated.
Protests will peak on August 10 by boycotting one day by lakh engineers and employees throughout the country.
Workers and power engineers throughout the country are agitation of the unilateral approach from the central government to rush through the Bill in Parliament.
VK Gupta said that when the Ministry of Power refused to discuss bills with engineers and employees, now the responsibility of the parliament to simplify the electricity bill (amendments) 2021 each time presented before that and detailed supervision of the permanent committee on energy must be permitted.
“The bill passed in a hurry may fail to achieve the results in question.
The movement to eliminate cross subsidies in a time-bound time and propose the direct benefit (DBT) to the consumer by the state government will seize access rights to electricity and domestic consumers The poor.
The central government seems to be more concerned with the profitability of private electricity companies rather than protecting consumer interests.
This will be wrong in the central government’s section to display a truly attitude and bring a broad legal change that cuts federalism roots.
The proposed reform is counterproductive and will lead In electricity refusal to mining and increase tariffs for domestic and agricultural consumers, only benefit some special parts of the community “, said Gupta while adding that many provisions of electricity bills (amendments).
2021 is anti-person and anti-employee and if applicable will have a broad bad consequence.
He said that power engineers and employees did not oppose reform in the electricity sector.
However, reform does not mean that the electricity sector must be privatized.
They demanded to go for the development of all rounds in the electricity sector while maintaining the characteristics of the public sector to remain intact.