Khammam: Power employees oppose Centre’s Electricity Bill-2020

Khammam: The electricity department engineers and employees have demanded the Central government to withdraw its move to present the Electricity Amendment Bill-2020 in Parliament. Engineers and employees of different unions under the banner of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) staged a lunch-hour demonstration wearing black badges here on Wednesday in support […]

Khammam: The electricity department engineers and employees have demanded the Central government to withdraw its move to present the Electricity Amendment Bill-2020 in Parliament.

Engineers and employees of different unions under the banner of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) staged a lunch-hour demonstration wearing black badges here on Wednesday in support of their demand.

Speaking to the media, leaders J Seshagiri Rao and M Satyanarayana Reddy of TEEU, G Krupakar Rao of VAOAT, M Prasad of TSUEU also demanded the Centre to withdraw its idea of privatising the power sector.

The leaders described the Centre’ move to privatise all the public sector companies such as coal mines, natural gas exploration companies as ridiculous. The power industry is run by the government with the intention of serving people irrespective of profit and loss. But the Centre without heeding the advice of the intellectuals and employees’ requests going ahead privatising all the prime sectors. The Modi government already allowed disinvestment of its major shares LIC which was running with huge profits, they noted.

Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to place the Electricity Bill- 2020 in the Parliament much against wishes of all the employees. In order to prevent the Centre’s move and express displeasure against it the employees all over the country joined hands, the leaders said.

The protesting engineers and employees felt that electricity was the most important sector and if it went into the hands of the corporate sector, the results would be harmful to the nation. They thanked the Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao for standing with employees of the power sector.

V Venu Mohan of H-82 Union, G Naresh Kumar of TEOCEWA, K Heeralal and D Vamshi of TSPEA were also present.

---

Now you can get handpicked stories from Telangana Today on Telegram everyday.

Click the link to subscribe. Click to follow Telangana Today Facebook page and Twitter .

---