Overview
- AIPEF says around 27 lakh power employees and engineers will stop work nationwide on February 12.
- The boycott targets the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 and the proposed National Electricity Policy 2026, with unions calling for their withdrawal.
- Demands include ending outsourcing, filling regular posts through direct recruitment, regularizing outsourced workers, and restoring the Old Pension Scheme.
- Samyukt Kisan Morcha and ten central trade unions have pledged solidarity, expanding the protest’s cross-sector backing.
- Union leaders argue TBCB-driven privatization of distribution, generation, and transmission would harm poor consumers and small and medium industry, and they predict a massive turnout.