{"id":396047,"date":"2021-01-19T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396047"},"modified":"2021-01-19T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T05:31:43","slug":"discoms-privatisation-engineers-to-protest-across-nation-on-feb-3-says-aipef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-privatisation-engineers-to-protest-across-nation-on-feb-3-says-aipef\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms privatisation: Engineers to protest across nation on Feb 3, says AIPEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Power sector engineers would go for token work boycott across the country on February 3 to protest against the move to privatise distribution companies by the central government, the All India Power Engineers&#8217; Federation (AIPEF) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power engineers across the country shall resort to token work boycott and hold protest meetings on 3rd February against privatization policies of the Government of India,&#8221; AIPEF spokesperson V.K. Gupta said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Shailendra Dubey, the Chairman of AIPEF, in a letter to the Prime Minister, stated that power engineers are grieved over the central government\u2019s move towards the power sector privatisation through Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020, &amp; Standard Bidding Document for total privatisation of distribution of electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Power sector engineers would go for token work boycott across the country on February 3 to protest against the move to privatise distribution companies by the central government, the All India Power Engineers&#8217; Federation (AIPEF) said on Monday. &#8220;Power engineers across the country shall resort to token work boycott and hold protest meetings on 3rd February against privatization policies of the Government of India,&#8221; AIPEF spokesperson V.K. Gupta said in a statement. Shailendra Dubey, the Chairman of AIPEF, in a letter to the Prime Minister, stated that power engineers are grieved over the central government\u2019s move towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}