20-05-2025
Power employees stage protest against bid to privatise dept
Varanasi:
Electricity department employees
, under the banner of
Vidyut Karmachari Samyukt Sangharsh Samiti
, staged a protest at the managing director's office in Bhikharipur on Tuesday against privatisation of Purvanchal and Dakshinanchal Electricity Distribution Corporations.
All workers will hold a protest meeting at the Bhikharipur office from 2pm to 5pm on Wednesday. The powermen recited Sundarkand at the Hanuman temple. Purvanchal committee of the state electricity junior engineers organisation agreed to continue their struggle against
electricity privatisation
on a single platform at the request of the struggle committee, with hundreds of junior and assistant engineers joining the Bhikharipur protest meeting. The struggle committee accused the power corporation chairman of manipulating figures to exaggerate losses and burdening common consumers, with the aim of aiding private companies. Speakers at the gathering said the protest would continue until May 28. The struggle committee has issued notice for
indefinite work boycott
from May 29 against the privatisation move.
Before the boycott, central officials of the struggle committee will begin statewide tours from May 21.
The meeting was presided over by O P Singh and conducted by Ankur Pandey. The meeting was addressed by Mayashankar Tiwari, Narendra Verma, SK Singh, Neeraj Bind, Manish Rai, Pankaj Jaiswal, Vijay Singh, Jiutlal, Ved Prakash Rai and others.
