Uttar Pradesh power personnel organised state-wide protests, expressing solidarity with their Puducherry counterparts, on Saturday. Electricity department staff in Puducherry is on strike against the move to privatise electricity distribution in the Union Territory.
Apart from holding protests at the power thermal plants, a large number of employees held a meeting in the Field Hostel here, to oppose the privatisation bid in Puducherry and warned against any such attempt in U.P.
The All-India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) chairman Shailendra Dubey said that a request for proposal (RFP) was issued on September 27 to start the bidding process for the privatisation of Puducherry Electricity department. In protest, the department workers and engineers resorted to an indefinite strike from September 28.
