JKNGEEA protest against proposed electricity amendment bill

 

R.S.Pura: J&K Non Gazetted Electrical Employees Association today held a protest demonstration at Miran Sahib, Jammu against the Government of India's move to pass the Electricity amendment bill and demanded its immediate withdrawal.

Addressing a rally Gurmeet Singh Sr. leader and State secretary JKNGEEA at Jammu today termed the bill as anti people and anti employees and engineers. He said through this bill GOI wants to hand over the entire power sector to the private players and licensees to loot this vital sector of the economy which will put the tremendous hardships on the common consumers, farmers and the industry as a whole which can't be tolerated. He said in coming days power tariff will be unbearable for the common man and the big business house will get benefit out of this and the already existing power crises will accentuate in coming days because private players has no state. He demanded for the immediate withdrawal of the bill and warned the government for desist from this move otherwise the electricity employees and engineers throughout the country will be forced to intensify the struggle. The other leaders who spoke on the occasion were Bhopinder Singh, Ishwar dayal, Amarjeet Singh. Anshit jandyal, Gulshan kumar, Ratandeer Singh, Amit kumar, Gurvinder Singh, Saran Singh, Tilak raj. Surjeet kumar. Ravinder Singh Raina, Shamsher lal and others.