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AIPEF urges chief ministers to seek more time for comments on draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 16, 2021, 04:46 PM IST Share Synopsis AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey has written a letter to all the chief ministers with a copy to the principal secretaries (power) of all states and chairpersons of state discoms "to take up the issue of (unnecessarily) rushing through the bill". Reuters According to the statement, at present, the bill has been circulated only to princip...

All India Power Engineers Federation threaten strike against Electricity Bill India Published: Monday, February 15, 2021, 9:12 [IST] New Delhi, Feb 15: In what comes as a recent development, the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 must be put out in the public domain before starting the discussion on it in Parliament. According to reports, the AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey in a statement here said that the Bill is not available...

The draft bill is not available on the power ministry website, AIPEF Spokesperson V K Gupta said in a statement. According to the statement, the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 is included in the list of 20 new bills to be placed in the current budget session of Parliament.

Dubey said all power engineers across the country will go for nationwide struggle along with 1.5 million power employees against Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021.

Power engineers to protest on February 3 against privatisation of discoms SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 18, 2021, 03:36 PM IST Share Synopsis Shailendra Dubey, the Chairman of AIPEF, in a letter to the Prime Minister, stated that power engineers and engineers are grieved over the central governments move towards the power sector privatisation through Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020, & Standard Bidding Document for total privatisation of distribution of electricity. The AIPEF demanded "withdraw...