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U.P. power employees strike work

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Power Department engineers and employees boycotted work on Monday and threatened to go on strike from next month if their demand to roll back the privatisation of the Anpara-C power plant is not met.

The workers, under the banner of the Power Employees Joint Action Committee, wore black badges and organised a sit-in in front of the Shakti Bhavan here. Committee convenor Shailendra Dubey said the Anpara-C project should be given to UP Power Generation Corporation Limited (UPPGCL) and claimed that it could provide electricity at much cheaper rate than Hyderabad-based Lanco Kondapalli, a private player which was handed over the project.

He said when public sector could run Anpara A and B ran successfully, Anpara C should not be given to a private party.

He said this was the first phase of their agitation in which the shift duty engineers and employees were not taking part so that power supply was not disrupted but they would join later on if the demands were not met.

PTI

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