State power sector employees to join nationwide strike on March 28 & 29

Guwahati: The Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees Engineers & Pensioners (CCOEEEP), which is functioning as the Assam Chapter of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE) has extended its support to the nationwide general strike called by power sector employees March 28 and March 29.

According to office-bearers of CCOEEEP, barring those who will be engaged in emergency operations in the Power Department, all members of constituent trade unions will abstain from work on both days of the strike. Moreover, they will undertake demonstrations in all working places, including the Bijulee Bhawan here, from 10 am to 12 noon on both the days.

However, in the greater public interest, employees engaged in emergency operations in power plants, control rooms, sub-stations, shift duty etc., have been exempted from the programme to ensure uninterrupted power supply, the sources said.

It may be mentioned that the demands of the NCCOEEE include scrapping of the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2021; stopping of privatization of public sector units, abolition of the Labour Code, restoration of the Old Pension Scheme, stopping of outsourcing of sub-stations, regularization of the services of temporary employees etc. Ten central trade unions and more than 40 national employees' federations have called for the two-day nation-wide strike.

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