Rae Bareli (UP), Dec 10 (UNI) In protest against the privatisation of electricity in Uttar Pradesh, power employees and Engineers in all the districts and projects, including the state capital Lucknow registered their protest by wearing black bands on the call of Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday.
Chairman of All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Shailendra Dubey said that as per the decision of the struggle committee, the electricity workers did not allow the work to be affected but showed their steely unity by wearing black bands and pledged to fight decisively against privatisation. Chief engineers also wore black bands.
He said that a meeting of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) will be held in Lucknow on December 11 in which the outline of the nationwide movement against the privatisation of electricity being done in UP and Chandigarh will be decided.