Proposed electricity bill: Power men’s conf in Delhi on Aug 2

Lucknow: The National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) has called a conference in New Delhi on August 2 to deliberate on the far-reaching ‘regressive’ impact of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 on the power sector, employees and consumers and announce a countrywide agitation against the proposed bill.

Giving this information here on Sunday, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIEFP) chairman Shailendra Dubey said that prominent MPs of all political parties had been invited to the conference and they would be urged to support the agitation against the bill in public interest.

Dubey, while welcoming the views expressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday about the power companies, said that with his statement, it had become very clear that the public sector power distribution companies were the victims of the wrong policies of governments and if they paid the subsidy and electricity bills of the government departments in time, then discoms would face no financial crisis.