LUCKNOW, July 17 -- The Uttar Pradesh Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti has urged chief minister Yogi Adityanath to halt the ongoing process of electricity privatisation in the state, citing the repeated failure of such experiments in Odisha.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the committee pointed out that even after Odisha handed over its four discoms to Tata Power in 2020, the state's electricity regulator recently issued notices citing the company's failure to deliver satisfactory consumer services.

"On July 15, all four Tata Power CEOs failed to provide convincing explanations to the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC), which has now ordered a public hearing within a month," Samiti convenor Shailendra Dube...