Guwahati: The Committee of Electricity Employees, Engineers & Pensioners, Assam Chapter will lead a national rally at the Ramlila Ground in New Delhi with the participation of over 100 power sector workers from Assam, including engineers on November 23.
In response to the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers’ (NCCOEEE) call to action against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022, office-bearers of the power employees’ association declared that they would take part in the protest programme in New Delhi.
They said that the main demands of the NCCOEEE include withdrawal of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022; standard bidding document for privatization of electricity and transmission monetization order; withdrawal of the process of privatization of electricity services in States and Union Territories, particularly in Puducherry and Chandigarh; cancellation of all existing privatization deals and franchises in the power sector; reintegration of all power utilities in States and Union Territories with integrated function components of generation, transmission and distribution like KSEB Ltd and HPSEB Ltd; reintroduction of the Old Pension Scheme for all power sector employees; Regularization of all contractual and casual workers/employees by averting legal complicacy as has been done in Telengana, Punjab, Odisha and Rajasthan; and filling up of existing vacancies with a policy of regular jobs to be discharged by regular employees alone.