Tuesday 1 February 2022

Electricity Employees of Chandigarh Observe Complete Strike

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Chandigarh Feb.01, 2022:- Electricity workers will go on a 72-hour strike from February 22 against handing over the profit-making electricity department to private hands, bypassing all laws. Even after this, if the government does not withdraw the decision of privatization, then this strike can also be made indefinitely. This announcement was made by UT Powerman Union President Dhian Singh and General Secretary Gopal Dutt Joshi while addressing a rally organized in Sector 17 after a 24-hour strike on Tuesday. Prashant Nandi Chowdhary, General Secretary of EEFI, Coordinator of National Coordination Committee of Electricians and Engineers present in the rally, Core Committee member and President of All India Power Engineer Federation E. Shailendra Dubey, Vice President of EEFI and All India State President of Government Employees Federation Subhash Lamba, Abhimanyu Dhankar of All India Power Diploma Engineer, Sachin Tikku of Jammu and Kashmir Power Engineer, Harbhajan Singh of MSU Punjab, Kuldeep Singh, Leader of Himachal Electricity Employees, Hira Lal Verma, All Haryana Power Corporation General Secretary of UT Naresh Kumar, Senior Deputy President Shabbir Ahmed, President of CITU Chandigarh Gurdeep Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Dinesh Prasad, President of Federation of UT Employees and Workers Raghbir Chand, Rajendra Katoch, Harkesh Chand strongly supported the declared strike. It is noteworthy that on Tuesday, the electricity employees made a successful strike and expressed their intention that privatization of electricity would not tolerate any cost.

                During the strike, no complaints and breakdown were attended, nor any work was done in the offices, the administration had put XEN and SDO on duty, but they could not do anything except listen to the phone and neither the power turned off. Couldn't find or fix the fault. All the electricity employees took a complete strike and participated in the rally held in front of Shivalik Hotel Sector 17 in huge numbers. Apart from electricity employees, workers leaders of other departments of UT and Punjab, Haryana and Himachal also participated in the rally of striking employees.

While addressing the rally of the striking workers, strongly condemning the policy of privatization of the Central Government and Chandigarh Administration, he alleged that the Central Government, despite giving cheap electricity for 5 consecutive years, was continuously profiting from the electricity department of Chandigarh to the property worth more than 20000 crores. 871 crore, that too to a company whose electricity rate is more than twice that of Chandigarh. This is a loot of public property. This will have a very adverse effect on the employees as well as the public. The speakers stressed upon the central government that the government should withdraw its illegal decision. During the rally, NCCOEEE, in a memorandum given to the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh through DC Chandigarh, said that the government is privatizing profits and privatizing losses. The Chandigarh case is clearly a case of inauthenticity. From where is the cost of all the land worth Re 1? After the transfer of the department, the C.A.G. The audit of the same will also be closed, so before selling the property should be audited. The speakers alleged that the employees and consumers were not even consulted before selling them. He warned that before starting the process of privatization, the transfer policy is also not being made public to protect the service conditions and retirement benefits of the employees under Section 133 of the Electricity Act.

Apart from the fraternal organizations, senior vice presidents of the union, Amrik Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Ranjit Singh, Kashmir Singh, Swaran Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Amit Dheegra etc., also addressed the rally and congratulated the electricity employees for going on 100% strike and for the next struggles. urged to be ready. Passing the resolution unanimously in the rally, it was decided to hold a joint seminar of political parties, mohalla committees, village struggle committees, trade unions, traders on 7 February. In which the difficulties faced by the general public due to privatization will be disclosed. After that pamphlets will be distributed door-to-door to the consumers belonging to all the sub-divisions and marches will be held in all the sectors till February 20, after which there will be a continuous 72-hour strike from February 22, 2022. Still, if the privatization proposal is not canceled then the strike will be extended indefinitely. He also appealed to all the residents of Chandigarh to raise their voice against this loot.

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