AIPEF rejects Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, calls it a step toward total privatisation of power sector

Babushahi Bureau

New Delhi, November 8, 2025: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has submitted its comments on the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, urging the Central Government to withdraw the proposed legislation, which it says is aimed at privatising the entire power sector—a move the Federation warns will be disastrous for farmers and domestic consumers.

AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey stated that the Bill, if implemented, would dismantle the integrated and socially driven public power system built over decades. He cautioned that the most profitable segments of power generation and distribution would be handed over to private companies, leaving the public secto

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