CHANDIGARH: National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) will hold a massive rally at Jantar Mantar in the New Delhi on January 30 against privatization of electricity and Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 and electricity employees and engineers from all states across the country will participate in it.
V K Gupta informed thay the meeting was attended by All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Chairman Shailendra Dubey and Secretary General P. Ratnakar Rao, and Mohan Sharma, Sudeep Datta, K. Ashok Rao, Krishna Bhoyur, Laxman Rathod, Santosh Khumkar, and Sanjay Thakur and otherd.
It was also decided to form a united front with farmers' and common consumers' organizations to launch nationwide movement against electricity privatization and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025. The first meeting of the united front will be held in Delhi on the upcoming December 14.
NCCOEEE has demanded that the Central Government immediately withdraw the anti-farmer, anti-consumer, and anti-employee Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025. It was decided that 2.7 million power employees and engineers across the country will be forced to launch a nationwide movement against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 and the privatization of the power sector if the Government of India fails to listen to their voice.