People's Democracy

 EEFI To Hold Fifth Annual Conference

THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI) is going to hold its fifth annual conference of at D Janakiraman Nagar, Anpara power station in district Sonbhadra (Uttar Pradesh) on August 30 to September 1. The reception committee formed for the purpose has Bhagavan Mishra as its chairman. 

On August 30, there will be a public rally at the Ramlila ground at Anpara power station, to be chaired by E Balanandan and addressed among others by West Bengal labour minister Mohd Amin, CITU general secretary M K Pandhe, and members of parliament Basudeb Acharya and Jibon Roy. Daulat Ram, B S Meel and S Dev Roye will be other speakers at the rally. 

On August 31 evening, there will be a national seminar on “The Impact of Indian Power Sector Reforms.” Shyamal Chakravarty will preside over it. M K Pandhe will deliver the inaugural address and West Bengal energy minister Mrinal Banerjee will present the keynote address in the seminar. The other speakers at the seminar will be All India Federation of Electricity Employees president A B Bardhan, All India Power Engineers Federation secretary general Shailendra Dubey, and P Purkayastha of Delhi Science Forum.

Girish Pandey (HMKP) has already been inaugurated an exhibition on evolution of electricity in India, at Lucknow on August 21. The same exhibition was scheduled to subsequently move to Kanpur and Renukoot for two days each, before reaching Anpara power station area on the eve of the EEFI conference.

In India, though we have enough natural resources to produce electricity besides technology and internationally competitive and abundant technical manpower, we do not know why all citizens of India can’t have access to electricity even 56 years after independence. This will be the basic theme the conference will address.