Rae Bareli (UP), Dec 10 (Reporter) In protest against the privatisation of electricity in Uttar Pradesh, power employees and Engineers in all the districts and projects, including the state capital Lucknow registered their protest by wearing black bands on the call of Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday. Chairman of All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Shailendra Dubey said that as per the decision of the struggle committee, the electricity workers did not allow the work to be affected but showed their steely unity by wearing black bands and pledged to fight decisively against privatisation. Chief engineers also wore black bands. He said that a meeting of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) will be held in Lucknow on December 11 in which the outline of the nationwide movement against the privatisation of electricity being done in UP and Chandigarh will be decided. Dubey said NCCCOEE is the National Coordination Committee of Power Employees and Engineers which includes all the major Power Employees Federations of the country, Power Diploma Engineers Federation and the All India Power Engineers Federation. He said there is a lot of anger among the electricity employees across the country regarding the unilateral privatisation of electricity in UP. "That is why a meeting of the Coordination Committee is being held in Lucknow in which the strategy of the nationwide movement will be decided," he said. The Chairman said electricity employees of Maharashtra and Punjab also held vigorous demonstrations in support of the electricity employees of UP and demanded that the UP government immediately withdraw the anti-employee and anti-consumer privatization proposal. He said that electricity employees in every district including the capital Lucknow expressed their anger against privatisation by wearing black bands. "From Class IV employees to Chief Engineer level showed solidarity by wearing black bands. During the lunch break and after office hours, the electricity employees raised loud slogans against privatisation in the office premises," he said. The AIPEF has appealed to the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to immediately intervene and cancel the anti-employee privatisation. The AIPEF said that under the leadership of the CM, the electricity employees of UP have created a record by supplying the maximum electricity up to 30,000 MW in the country, and the electricity employees of UP are determined to provide better electricity system in the future, hence privatisation should not be unilaterally imposed on power employees...////...