Varanasi: The Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti has warned that if the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 is not withdrawn soon, 15 lakh power employees across the country will boycott work on August 10.
In its state convention held at Power Training Institute, Hydel Colony in Bhikharipur area here on Thursday, VKSSS passed a resolution to join the countrywide work boycott agitation on August 10 in case the Bill is not withdrawn immediately. Convenor Shailendra Dubey said that apart from all employees and engineers of all power corporations of UP, other supporting staff will also join the proposed agitation.
The speakers said that office-bearers of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers had already met power secretary of government of India Alok Kumar in Delhi on Wednesday to express their protest against the bill. Now, the series of sit-in and satyagrah will start at Shram Shakti Bhawan in New Delhi from August 3 to August 6 by the power employees from north, east, west and southern zones, respectively.