Chandigarh: Powermen call one-day token strike
The UT Powermen Union, which is opposing the privatisation of the Chandigarh electricity department, has given a call for a one-day token strike on August 10.
The call comes on the day the empowered committee on power privatisation gave its nod to the highest bid quoted by Eminent Electricity Distribution (EED) for the takeover of the department.
In the financial bids opened on August 4, EED, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC), quoted a bid of around ₹871 crore against the reserve price of ₹175 crore. CESC is the flagship company of the Kolkata-based industrial and services conglomerate RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group.
