Engg body to protest privatisation of electricity in UP on Mon

A body of engineers of the state-run Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has opposed the ongoing privatisation of electricity in three districts of Uttar Pradesh and will observe a day of protest on September 22.
The Federation of Engineers of the UPPCL has opposed the privatisation in Ghaziabad, Meerut and Varansi.
In a press conference convened here today at Chief Engineers Office, the state president of the federation, R K Singh said that all the 11 wings of employees and officers of the federation will oppose the privatisation of electricity in the three districts.
Members of the federation will observe September 22 as 'Virodh Divas' (Protest Day).

Protests will be staged at the Chief Engineers Offices in these three district headquarters.
Singh told that UP government has started working on the plans to privatise the electricity of all those districts which are generating highest revenue for the state.

The government has signed an agreement with a Chennai- based company named 'Mecon' to collate data regarding properties and valuation of infrastructure of three districts of UP for an amount of Rs 1.56 crore.
The demand of power in Uttar Pradesh is 14000 MWs, where as supply is 11000 MWs. If these conditions persists, then the demand of electricity will reach 23,000 MWs in 2017, they claimed.

Singh further warned that employees and engineers of the federation will not allow the company surveyors to enter the premises of electric-substations of these three districts.