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The employees of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL), connected Wednesday, staged a protestation successful Shivamogga opposing the connection to privatise the transmission of powerfulness successful the State.
The employees, who gathered astatine the Main Receiving Station successful the city, raised slogans opposing the determination to manus implicit powerfulness transmission to Tata Power Company Limited. They said they had learnt done the media that the backstage institution had applied for parallel organisation licences to proviso powerfulness successful the State.
Listing the imaginable consequences of privatising powerfulness distribution, the protesters claimed that backstage companies would cherry-pick lone profitable areas portion ignoring different localities. This, they said, would yet pb to nonaccomplishment of employment opportunities for the youth, and a emergence successful powerfulness tariffs, putting consumers successful difficulty.
They further argued that handing implicit infrastructure built with nationalist wealth to backstage companies could effect successful the misuse of nationalist funds. In the coming years, farmers mightiness besides suffer reliable powerfulness proviso to their irrigation pump sets.
In a memorandum submitted to the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission, the protesters demanded that energy proviso companies beryllium retained nether the State government’s control.
The protestation was led by Employees Union leaders Indudhar, Hemanna, Kumar and others.
