Electricity privatization Archives

Jun 09

Pondicherry electricity workers and engineers begin a series of hunger strike against privatization

Report sent by Shri R Kannan, Secretary, Forum Against Privatization of Electricity Department, Puducherry Pondicherry electricity workers have started a series of hunger Read more

Jun 08

Puducherry government goes back on its assurance and again begins the process of privatising electricity distribution in the Union Territory at the insistence of the central government

Report by KEC correspondent In February 2022, when Puducherry electricity employees went on an indefinite strike, the government of the union territory was forced to Read more

Jun 04

All Power to the Power Sector Employees of Puducherry for resuming their fight against privatisation!

Report by a KEC correspondent As reported earlier on the AIFAP website, the United Forum of Employees and Engineers of Puducherry had resolved Read more

Apr 27

Power shortage in Maharashtra is the result of wrong policies of the central government

Press Release of Maharashtra State Electricity Workers Federation (MSEWF) (English translation of Marathi Press Note) Maharashtra State Electricity Workers Federation Press Note, Nagpur 23.04.2022 Power Read more

Mar 29

Electricity employees in UP express their support to the All India Strike

Received through Shri Shailedra Dubey, Chairman, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)

Mar 21

National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) warns of nationwide agitation against Chandigarh electricity privatisation

Report received from Shri Shailendra Dubey, Chairman, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Under the banner of NCCOEEE, the northern regional convention of Read more

Mar 19

AIFOPDE requests Punjab government to take concrete stand against the privatization of Power Department of Chandigarh and against unilateral actions by the Administration of Chandigarh in this matter

Letter to the recently elected Chief Minister of Punjab by the All India Federation of Power Diploma Engineers (AIFOPDE)

Mar 18

NCCOEEE to hold a convention of all people and organisations opposing privatisation of electricity in Chandigarh on 19th March 2022

Mar 03

All India Electricity Employees Federation (AIEEF) announces a 2-day strike on 28 and 29 March 2022 against the central government’s policy of privatising electricity

Report received from Com. Krushna Bhoyar, Joint General Secretary, AIEEF and General Secretary, Maharashtra State Electricity Workers Federation (MSWEF) The parliament is trying Read more

Mar 03

People’s Commission on Public Sector and Public services urges the Government of India to halt the electricity privatisation exercise in respect of Chandigarh

Press Statement in respect of Privatisation of Electricity Department of Chandigarh, 2 March 2022 People’s Commission expresses its serious concern at the unilateral privatisation Read more