Consumers, employees being ignored in finalising Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021: AIPEF

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Tuesday said consumers as well as employees are being ignored in finalising the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021, and demanded that the draft bill should be put in public domain for feedback. “The consumers and power sector employees and engineers are being ignored in finalising the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021,” AIPEF spokesperson V K Gupta said.

AIPEF demanded that the bill be put on the power ministry website and the comments of all stakeholders including electricity consumers, power sector employees, workers as well as engineers must be considered before finalising the draft bill.