AIPEF demand withdrawal of privatisation agenda, seek power engineers as utility heads
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ August 18,2024
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) demands withdrawal of the privatisation agenda of Government of India and seeks that expert power engineers should head the power utilities in the country.
The federal council meeting was held at Nagpur and 18 state constituents from across the country participated in it including Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand ,Uttar Pradesh,West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Gujarat , Tamilnadu , Delhi, Jharkhand ,and Kerala .
Shailendra Dubey Chairman , Ratnakar Rao Secretary General , Ashok Rao, Suneel Grover from Himachal, Srinath Reddy from Telangana , Jasbir Dhiman President PSEBEA, Yash Pal Sharma Secretary (Hq), Sachin Tikoo from J & K , Santosh Khumkar General secretary SEA were amongst more than 70 delegates from all over India.
Shailendra Dubey who presided over the meeting said that to make the energy sector strong and self-reliant, expert power engineers should be posted in top management positions in all power corporations of the country. In a resolution at its meeting in Nagpur on Saturday, demanding the centre not bring in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill yet again and withdraw the proposal for privatisation and appointment of urban distribution franchisees, considering the larger interest of the energy sector and consumers. The losses of the power sector are due to the wrong policy decisions of the government and not by the power sector employees & engineers.
Rathnakar Rao, General Secretary stated that in the last few years, the Central government tried to amend the Electricity Act, 2003, through the Electricity (Amendment) Bill. The main objective of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill was to give licences to private houses in the field of electricity distribution and allow them to use the networks of public sector electricity distribution companies.
AIPEF demand withdrawal of privatisation agenda, seek power engineers as utility heads . V K Gupta spokesperson informed that earlier power engineers celebrated completion of 51 glorious years of All India Power Engineers Federation. The event was organized by the Subordinate Engineers’ Association of Maharashtra.
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