Protest against Privatisation of two DISCOMS (PuVVNL AND DVVNL) across Nation by Power Engineers

Protest against Privatisation of two DISCOMS (PuVVNL AND DVVNL) across Nation by Power Engineers

Lucknow : Power employees and engineers on Saturday organized nationwide rallies and peaceful demonstrations to protest against the privatization of distribution companies in Agra and Varanasi (Discoms).

The meeting took place on the phone of the Uttar Pradesh Vidyut Kalamchari Sanyuk Sangharsh Samiti.

They called for the privatization proposal to be scrapped and called for a transparent assessment of the power’s billion-dollar assets by a committee of workers and consumer representatives.

They also called on the government to ensure consultation with consumers and workers before starting the privatization process.

Electricians from all regions, project headquarters and state centers gathered after opening hours to express their opposition and prioritize their views in the decision-making process.

In Lucknow, a large demonstration was held at Hydel Field Hostel on Rana Pratap Marg. It was attended by large numbers of employees from Shakti Bhavan, Madhyanchal Headquarters, Rasa and other offices. In this case, Rajiv Singh, Jitendra Singh Gurjar, Girish Pandey, Mahendra Rai, Sohail Abid, P.K. Dixit, Rajendra Gildayal, Chandra Bhushan Upadhai and others.

The committee chairmen argued that privatization would adversely affect the working conditions of workers and harm ordinary domestic consumers, farmers and economically weaker sections. They highlighted the failure of privatization in Agra and Greater Noida and stressed the need to review these experiments before considering further privatization.

Torrent, the private company that distributes power in Agra, supplies power to UPPCL at Rs 4.25 per unit while Kesco earns a turnover of Rs 6.80 per unit, showing the failure of Agra’s privatization model.

The protest rallies had been held at Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Hyderabad and other states at all tasks and Discoms headquarters held protest meetings, in search of scrapping of the process to privatise two Discoms in Uttar Pradesh and turning in Chandigarh energy branch to a private corporation.

In Shimla the joint the front of engineers and personnel become held at Kumar residence and addressed by using Lokesh LThakur and Hira Lal Verma . They stated that by privatisation the provider situations of personnel will become worse and purchasers will undergo better tariffs. Even the Himachal government is intending toward privatisation and the front opposes it.

In Chandigarh protest rally turned into held in area 17 and become addressed through Padamjit Singh leader consumer AIPEf, Subhash Lamba preferred secretary EEFI , Gopal Joshi and others. The assets of the energy department are being despatched to non-public celebration at throw away prices. Inside the case of Chandigarh privatisation idea, there’s 100 according to cent sale of the electricity branch, then in which can be the competition.

The government is surely privatising the energy region on the cost of the state sector within the name of reforms. The last three a long time of marketplace-oriented strength sector reforms have exposed the inefficiency of the imperative authorities’s reform programme.

The prevailing set of reforms is not anything but a desperate attempt via the authorities to cowl up the policy miscalculations of the beyond many years, while concurrently defensive the hobbies of personal electricity generators on the fee of state distribution agencies.

IN Uttar Pradesh , the ESMA has been imposed and employees were warned no longer to move on strike.Emergency conditions have been created in Uttar Pradesh by way of banning strike, demonstration and personnel gatherings.