Don’t stop free power to farmers: Engg body
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Title
Don’t stop free power to farmers: Engg body
Description
Kurukshetra: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has extended support to farmers and urged the Union government to scrap the farm laws and protect the power subsidy of farmers by withdrawing the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, and standard bidding document. AIPEF spokesperson V K Gupta claimed the power engineers believed that the farmers’ protests were against the economic policy of the Union government which was allegedly to favour the corporates and industry leaders to maximise their business and profit at the cost of the farming community. AIPEF chairman Shailender Dubey alleged, “While the Union government has proposed the procedure of DBT (direct benefit transfer), this amounted to snatching the subsidy of free power to farmers.” tnn
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-12-04
Coverage
Chandigarh