The federal executive meeting of the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) held here on Saturday adopted 10 resolutions with major demands being withdrawal of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 and integration of all unbundled power utilities.
The meeting was chaired by Shailendra Dubey, chairman of AIPEF, and secretary general P. Rathnakar Rao and attended by presidents and general secretaries of all constituent power engineers associations of AIPEF. The meeting also discussed at length the ongoing power crisis in the country arising out of coal shortage and privatisation policies being pursued by the Centre and some State Governments in the power sector.
On the ongoing power crisis, the engineers body sought an independent inquiry into the coal shortage and demanded withdrawal of directions/conditions issued by the Centre to State Governments (Gencos) on import of coal for blending it with indigenous coal. They also requested the State Government to withdraw privatisation of their power utilities and demanded cancellation of privatisation proposals of Union Territory electricity departments without finalising the standard bidding documents.
