Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 18: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded withdrawal of the privatisation agenda of Government of India and sought that the expert power engineers should head the power utilities in the country.
The Federal Council meeting was held at Nagpur and 18 state constituents from across the country participated in it including Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Gujarat, Tamilnadu, Delhi, Jharkhand and Kerala.
Shailendra Dubey, Chairman, Ratnakar Rao secretary general, Ashok Rao, Sachin Tikoo from J&K, Suneel Grover from Himachal, Srinath Reddy from Telangana, Jasbir Dhiman president PSEBEA, Yash Pal Sharma secretary (Hqs), Santosh Khumkar general secretary SEA were amongst more than 70 delegates from all over India.
Shailendra Dubey who presided over the meeting said that to make the energy sector strong and self-reliant, expert power engineers should be posted in top management positions in all power corporations of the country. In a resolution during meeting they demanded the Centre not to bring in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill yet again and withdraw the proposal for privatisation and appointment of urban distribution franchisees, considering the larger interest of the energy sector and consumers.
Ratnakar Rao, general secretary stated that in the last few years, the Central Government tried to amend the Electricity Act, 2003, through the Electricity (Amendment) Bill. The main objective of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill was to give licences to private houses in the field of electricity distribution and allow them to use the networks of public sector electricity distribution companies.
Sachin Tickoo, general secretary JKEEGA said that as far as Human Resource issues of engineers and employees of Jammu and Kashmir is concerned a strong resentment was shown and resolution was passed calling upon the management of Power sector in J&K and political diaspora to dwell on the solution to the adhocism and non- regularisation of engineers and employees of Power Development Department.
VK Gupta, spokesperson informed that earlier power engineers celebrated completion of 51 glorious years of All India Power Engineers Federation. The event was organized by the Subordinate Engineers’ Association of Maharashtra.
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