Indian National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE) in its National Convention held at New Delhi on 8th June 2018, called for a Nationwide Power Strike on 7th Dec 2018.
The NCCOEEE opposed the efforts of the Government to privatise the public owned electric industry. The convention called upon the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers and Members of Parliament and State Assemblies to set aside the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2014, placed before the Parliament. Almost all the State governments oppose the proposition of segregation of carriage and content, i.e. further splitting the distribution activities, which will increase of the cost of supply to the consumers.
The motive of the bill is to crease scope of business for private enterprise in power distribution without any investment and the profitable segments will be transferred to private sector and loss-making segments are retained by public sector.
PSI South Asia Sub-regional Secretary Raman Kannan took part of the Convention and bring PSI congratulations and support for their outcome.
