Electricity should be a fundamental right: Engineers tell political parties

All India Power Engineers Federation writes to leaders of BJP, Congress and other parties.

Political parties' manifestos should declare electricity as a fundamental right, said an association representing almost 1.5 million public sector power employees Sunday.

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has written to leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and other parties suggesting a charter of suggestions to improve the power sector. 

AIPEF said in Lucknow electricity drives economic development, and should therefore be affordable and available to the poor. 

AIPEF chairman Shailendra Dubey claimed the domestic power sector was in deep crisis, especially due to the “indiscriminate” change in policy. “Almost 65% of investment in the private thermal power plants