Uttar Pradesh Power Employees Joint Action Committee would protest against privatisation of power sector and press for their demands by going for a 72-hour work boycott from November 6.
The strike has been called on the initiative of National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) and engineers and other power employees would participate in it.
The decision was taken at a meeting of state coordination committee in Lucknow on Thursday. In the meeting, it was also decided that the state power employees and members would join the nation-wide work boycott on November 6, 7 and 8.
UP Rajya Vidhyut Parishad Abhiyanta Sangh general secretary Rajeev Kumar Singh said in a statement issued in Lucknow on Thursday that engineers and employees would not tolerate the privatisation of power sector.
“Everywhere private companies have failed in the power sector but still the government is going ahead with its plan of handing over the operations to private companies,” Singh said.
The Abhiyanta Sangh office-bearer said that in Odisha, a private company was given the contract of power distribution in 2015 but it failed and the contract was cancelled.
The other demands of power employees are pension to all employees appointed after 2000, recruitment of employees against vacant posts and free power supply to the employees in the state.
