Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee correspondent
Several organisations came together in Mumbai on Sunday, July 7, 2024 under the banner of Vidyut Smart Meter Virodhi Kruti Samiti (Action Committee for Opposing Electricity Smart Meters), and declared that they would fight against the installation of smart electricity meters till the Scheme is withdrawn.
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Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee Correspondent
In order to make people aware of this impending attack, 46 workers’, farmers’ and people’s organizations have come together and brought out a booklet, Unitedly Oppose Anti-Worker Anti-People Prepaid Smart Electricity Meters, in Hindi and English. The booklet will soon come out in Marathi as well.
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Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee correspondent
On 13th March 2024, the Maharashtra State Electricity Workers’ Federation (MSEWF) organized a Zoom meeting on the subject “Smart Meters – Myth and Reality”.
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Electricity is a basic necessity of modern life. Making it available at an affordable price is the responsibility of the government. Instead of fulfilling this responsibility, the Central Government is taking steps that will make electricity out of reach for many people, in order to guarantee maximum profits for private companies.
Continue readingA program to celebrate International Women’s Day was organised by the Maharashtra State Electricity Workers’ Federation (MSEWF) in Pune on 8th March. Com Bharti Bhoyar, President of the Women’s Front of MSEWF, chaired the meeting. Com Bhoyar emphasised the need for women to fight shoulder to shoulder with their male co-workers, in order to win and defend their rights, as workers and as women.
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Under the banner of ‘Bijli Kranti Rally’, thousands of electricity workers and engineers from all parts of India came together in a massive protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on November 23.
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First published in November 2022
A collection of articles published by the Communist Ghadar Party of India between May and August 2022.
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Continue readingThis is the Sixth in a series of articles on the class struggle over electricity in India
The class struggle that is going on over electricity is about who should own this vital productive force and what should be the aim of its production and distribution. At the centre of the conflict is the very definition of the role of electricity in society.
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The All India Power Engineers Federation has written to the Union Power Minister demanding that the bill should not be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament, without talking to power consumers and electricity workers in detail, on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 recently released by the Central government.
Continue readingWe are publishing a statement of solidarity with electricity workers issued by the All-India Forum against Privatisation on 3rd Aug 2021.
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