Furore over the proposed privatisation of Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL)
Mathura, August 29: An official of power sector association UPRVPAS said on Friday that the Uttar Pradesh government should make its stand clear on the proposed privatisation of Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd. V P Singh, president of Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Parishad Abhiyanta Sangh, told reporters that the privatization of the DISCOM would harm the people, who are already reeling under the coronavirus pandemic, as they would be paying as much as ₹10 per unit of electricity. It would also lead to retrenchment of the DISCOM’s employees, he claimed.
Prabhat Singh, the association’s secretary said it would organize protests from 1st September in every district served by the DISCOM if the “anti-people” proposal is not junked, adding that the government wanted to impose this model in the Purvanchal area despite the poor service of private power companies in Agra and Greater Noida.
