 "1.5 million power employees to protest against privatisation on August 18")
About 1.5 million government sector power employees in India, including engineers, today announced that they would hold nationwide protests on Tuesday seeking the withdrawal of Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 and would oppose the privatisation of state-owned power distribution companies (discoms).
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) chairman Shailendra Dubey said the process of privatising electricity distribution in Union Territories (UT), Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam (Varanasi) and three discoms of Odisha was on, while a power utility, Central Electricity Supply Utility (CESU), had already been handed over to Tata Power in Odisha.
“We will observe Protest Day on August 18 seeking the withdrawal
