Telangana: Power Unions Stage Lunch-Hour Protest Against Electricity (Amendment) Bill
They warned that the proposed Bill endangered national power security and farmers' relief, echoing All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) concerns over threats to public discoms and state autonomy
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2026-02-12 18:36 GMT
Hyderabad: Telangana Power Employees Joint Action Committee held a lunch-hour demonstration at Vidyut Soudha on Thursday, protesting the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 and calling it a gateway to power sector privatisation.
Committee chairman G. Saibabu, convener P. Rathnakar Rao and secretary-general E. Sridhar, leading the protest, slammed the Bill's proposed multiple licensing policy, claiming it favoured private players while burdening consumers through lost cross-subsidies and tariff hikes for non-profitable users like farmers and households.
They warned that the proposed Bill endangered national power security and farmers' relief, echoing All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) concerns over threats to public discoms and state autonomy.
Key demands include immediate withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025, SHANTI Act 2025, and National Electricity Policy 2026, halting all privatization moves, scrapping smart metering, regularizing contract jobs, urgent taking up of new recruitments and restoring Old Pension Scheme (OPS).