Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee (KEC) correspondent
Power engineers and employees across Uttar Pradesh observed the New Year as a “Black Day” in protest against the proposed privatisation of Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam and Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam. Demonstrators, , wore black armbands and formed human chains in multiple city offices at the call of Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, UP.
Hundreds of electricity employees gathered at the Shakti Bhawan headquarters in Lucknow and the Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam office to express their opposition to privatisation. Similar protests unfolded in Varanasi, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Gorakhpur, and Jhansi, involving engineers, contractual workers, and employees from all energy corporations.