Lucknow, Feb. 20 -- : The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday assured the members in the state legislative assembly that the interests of employees will be protected if any decision is taken to go ahead with any move to privatise loss-making power sector companies in the wider public interest in the state.

Though he did not mention "privatisation", minister for energy AK Sharma said despite the best efforts, "all is not going well in the power sector" and the needful would be done in the public interest to ensure uninterrupted, cheap and quality power supply to the people.

He was replying to a starred question of Samajwadi Party members Sachin Yadav aka Jakhai and Sangram Yadav during question hour in the state assembly.

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