EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 14: Power Employees and Engineers Coordination Committee (PEECC) Convenor Jammu and general secretary JKEEGA Er. Sachin Tickoo in a statement here demanded that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 must be put in the public domain before starting the discussion on it in Parliament. The bill is not available on the Power Ministry Website. He said Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 is included in the list of 20 new bills to be placed in the current Budget Session of Parliament. Now the Union Power Minister is to hold a video conference on February 17, with power secretaries of the state and CMDs of the Discoms to discuss the proposed amendments in Electricity Act 2003.
All India Power Engineers Federation has threatened a lightning strike against any unilateral move to rush through the bill in Parliament. AIPEF national executive meeting has been called on 27th February at Mumbai which will decide future agitational course of action. Shailendra Dubey said all power engineers across the country will go for nationwide struggle along with 1.5 million power employees against Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021. PEECC stresses that all the stakeholders including Associations/ Unions of employees and engineers, consumers and others must be given sufficient time to present their viewpoints State Governments are not the only stakeholder.
Those who attended the meeting were ,Er.Ashok Kumar Dubey, Vice-President JKEEGA, Er. Jaipal Sharma, president DEA, Sanjeev Bali, president PPEU, Anil Slathia, lineman and Workers Union, Jasbir Singh ITI Employees ,H.D Singh, TEF, Tarun Gupta, president,PDEU, Balbir Singh Draftsman Asso, Jasbir Singh ITI Employees, Kulbir Singh, EEU among others. |
