MARGAO, Feb. 13 -- Team Herald

The All India Federation of Electricity Employees (AIFE) has strongly opposed the Central Government's ongoing push for privatisation in the electricity sector, warning of nationwide protests against the move.

Speaking at a press conference in Margao on Thursday, Mohan Sharma, General Secretary of AIFE, alongside other union office bearers, told reporters that all unions and associations of power workers and engineers will meet on February 23 in Nagpur to strategise a nationwide response against the government's privatization policies.

Sharma explained that, in the past, the Government of India had nationalised most private power utilities, establishing State-owned electricity boards. By 1972, nearly all ...