Power sector employees to go on strike on March 10 against Electricity Bill across country

New Delhi: Opposing the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025,, the power sector engineers' body AIPEF on Friday announced that 27 lakh workers associated with it will go on strike on March 10 .

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) said that there is strong resentment among power employees and engineers over the government's plan to table the Bill 2025 in Parliament.

The decision was taken in an online meeting of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE), which was chaired by Shailendra Dubey, Chairman of the AIPEF.

According to AIPEF, nearly 2.7 million power employees and engineers across the country will boycott work and come out on the streets on March 10.

The draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 has provisions for allowing multiple electricity distributors to operate in the same area using shared infrastructure. The bill also provides for cost-reflective tariffs while protecting subsidised consumers and eliminating cross-subsidy for industrial consumers within five years.

NCCOEEE has also written to the power ministry, demanding that the "anti-farmer, anti-consumer and anti-employee Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 should not be introduced in Parliament", AIPEF said.