{"id":499252,"date":"2022-06-18T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T07:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499252"},"modified":"2022-06-18T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T07:02:51","slug":"electricity-bill-in-parliament-power-men-threaten-nationwide-stir-if-bill-is-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-bill-in-parliament-power-men-threaten-nationwide-stir-if-bill-is-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Bill in Parliament: Power men threaten nationwide stir if Bill is passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power engineers have strongly objected to the Union power minister\u2019s statement that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 will be tabled and passed in the monsoon session of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>They have also warned that any such action would trigger a nationwide strike by power engineers and employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny unilateral action to get the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 passed in Parliament without taking the electricity employees and engineers across the country into confidence will be strongly opposed and all 27 lakh electricity employees and engineers of the country will be forced to resort to a nationwide strike,\u201d Shailendra Dubey, All-India Power Engineers\u2019 Federation (AIPEF), chairman, said here on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power engineers have strongly objected to the Union power minister\u2019s statement that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 will be tabled and passed in the monsoon session of Parliament. They have also warned that any such action would trigger a nationwide strike by power engineers and employees. \u201cAny unilateral action to get the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 passed in Parliament without taking the electricity employees and engineers across the country into confidence will be strongly opposed and all 27 lakh electricity employees and engineers of the country will be forced to resort to a nationwide strike,\u201d Shailendra Dubey, All-India Power Engineers\u2019 [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499252","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=499252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}