Power Strike Postponed, after Union Power Minister's statement on Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021

National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE) has postponed one day nationwide strike call of Power Employees & Engineers after specific statement of Union Power Minister R K Singh that Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 has not yet been cleared by Union Cabinet for placing it before Parliament. NCCOEEE has warned that if any unilateral attempt is made by Central Govt to place Bill before Parliament in the current session then Power Employees will be forced to resort to lightning strike on the same day.

Power Strike Postponed

Shailendra Dubey Chairman of All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) said that NCCOEEE has served a notice to Ministry of Power that strike call of 10th August is postponed till further attempt of the Government towards placing this unconstitutional Bill towards curbing the energy-right of poor and rural people of the country. NCCOEEE will resort to strike action, on the day of placing the Bill in any house of the Parliament in this or any other session of the Parliament in future.

He told that Power Employees & Engineers all over the country will organise one hour protest demonstration in front of all power utility offices and installations on 10th August to decry the Govt. of India dictated Police atrocities over the electricity employees and engineers mobilised for peaceful & democratic form of protest movement with prior intimation in Parliament Street, New Delhi on 4th, 5th and 6th August, 2021.

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