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EEFIElectricity Employees Federation of India

Federation

Electricity Employees Federation of India

The national trade-union federation of electricity employees and engineers. Founded 1984 at Thiruvananthapuram. Forty years of organised work across generation, transmission and distribution.

Delegates at the 10th National Conference

Tenth National Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, 10–12 March 2025 — more than 350 delegates from 22 states and four Union Territories.

Foundation

The federation was founded at the first All-India Conference held at Thiruvananthapuram on 13–15 January 1984. Comrade E. Balanandan was the founding President. The constitution adopted there remains the basic law of the organisation, with amendments at the 6th Conference (2009) and the 7th Conference (2013).

The flag is red, with “EEFI” inscribed horizontally and a transmission-tower emblem. The National Centre is at B.T.R. Bhawan, 13 Rouse Avenue, New Delhi.

Who we organise

Affiliated unions cover thermal, hydel, nuclear and wind generation; interstate and state transmission; and public and private distribution. That includes NTPC, NHPC, POWERGRID, State DISCOMs, Damodar Valley Corporation, CESC and other private utilities, and organisations of contract electricity workers.

Unions of the federation work from Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala and from Meghalaya to Maharashtra — in Central PSUs, state public utilities and private companies.

Affiliated unions

56 unions in 22 states and Union Territories — Annexure II of 18 May 2026, with affiliations reported at the Ooty Working Committee, August 2025.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

  • Andaman & Nicobar Island Electricity Trade Union

Andhra Pradesh

  • United Electricity Employees’ Union (UEEU)
  • United Electricity Contract Workers’ Union

Assam

  • ASESWU
  • POWERGRID Employees Union (NER)
  • NTPC Bongaigaon Employees Union

Bihar

  • BJRVPF Kamgar Union

Chhattisgarh

  • Bharat Aluminium Employees Union
  • Pragatisheel Tap VKS
  • NTPC Kamgar Union
  • Private and Disinvested Sector Executive & Engineer Welfare Association

Chandigarh

  • UT Power Union

Himachal Pradesh

  • HPSEB Employees’ Union
  • Himachal Hydro Power Workers Federation

Haryana

  • AHPCWU
  • POWERGRID Workers’ Union, Gurugram

Jammu and Kashmir

  • J&K CNGEEA

Karnataka

  • KSE Workers Federation
  • Bhallari Thermal Power Station Guttige Karmikara Sangha

Kerala

  • KSEB Workers’ Association
  • KSEB Officers’ Association
  • Electricity Board Contract Workers’ Association
  • Kerala Electricity Wireman and Supervisors’ Union
  • Thrissur Corporation electricity employees’ union
  • Kannandevan TE electricity employees’ union

Meghalaya

  • Meghalaya Power Workers’ Union

Maharashtra

  • Dhabhol VPKS
  • MR Swabhimani Vidyut Workers’ Union

Odisha

  • OBKS
  • WOBS Mahasangha
  • CESU Meter Reading & Bill Collection Karmachari Sangha
  • Odisha Power Sector Technical Employees’ Union

Punjab

  • Technical Staff Union (TSU)
  • Ministerial Staff Union (MSU)
  • Powercom & Transco Contract Workers’ Union

Puducherry

  • PMT Sangam

Rajasthan

  • Vidyut Shramik Karmachari Ekta Union (RVKEF)

Tamil Nadu

  • COTEE
  • POWERGRID Workmen’s Union (SR-2)
  • Tamil Nadu Power Engineers’ Organisation

Tripura

  • Tripura Bidyut Karmachari Union

Telangana

  • NTPC United Electricity Employees’ Union
  • TG United Electricity Employees’ Union
  • POWERGRID Workers’ Union (SR-I)

Uttar Pradesh

  • Uttar Pradesh Bidyut Board Employees’ Union

West Bengal

  • WBSE Workmen’s Union
  • PBRB Shilpa Sahayak Karmachari Union
  • CES Workmen’s Union
  • DVC Staff Union
  • DVC Contract Workers’ Union
  • PTE&W Union, Siliguri
  • Farakka Super Thermal Power Project Workers’ Union
  • Farakka Super Thermal Power Project Technical Staff Union
  • CESC Contract Workers’ Union
  • NTPC SAIL Power Company Employees Union
  • Durgapur Project Employees Union

Tasks of the federation

Electricity is a public service. The people who produce and deliver it have a duty to defend that service, their own employment, and the consumer. These are the standing tasks of EEFI.

  • Organise permanent and non-regular electricity workers together, and bring contract workers into the leadership of the united movement.
  • Keep generation, transmission and distribution in one struggle. Unbundling is meant to break that unity; the federation holds it.
  • Build organisation in every state and Union Territory, with particular care for North and Central India and the North-East.
  • Work through NCCOEEE so that electricity employees and engineers act on one platform against privatisation and the Electricity Amendment Bills.
  • Act with coal and petroleum workers through the All India Coal Workers’ Federation and the Petroleum and Gas Workers Federation of India, as energy workers of one public sector.

10th National Conference reports

How the federation works

The National Centre works under a 25-member Office Bearers committee, a 55-member Working Committee and a 70-member General Council. Office-bearers meet at least once in three months; the Working Committee at least once in six months. A Centre team keeps daily contact with state unions.

Four regional committees function under the Centre. The Working Women Sub-Committee was formed at Chennai on 14 October 2023, with Comrade Deepa K. Rajan as All India Convenor. An eight-member pensioners’ cell works with Comrade S. S. Subramanian as Convenor.

Aims, in brief

  • Organise electricity workers and improve wages, hours, security of service, bonus, gratuity, provident fund, housing and living conditions.
  • Defend equal wages, democratic rights and solidarity with peasants and other toiling people.
  • Confederate with kindred unions in India and abroad. Work toward socialism in India.

United platforms

EEFI works inside the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and is a constituent of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE), the joint platform with AIPEF, AIFEE, AIFOPDE, AIPF and others. It coordinates with the All India Coal Workers’ Federation and the Petroleum and Gas Workers Federation of India, and is linked internationally through the Trade Union International (Energy) of the WFTU.

Conferences

  1. 113–15 January 1984 · Thiruvananthapuram, KeralaPresident: E. Balanandan · General Secretary: D. Janakiraman · Treasurer: K. K. NairFoundation conference. Constitution adopted.
  2. 213–15 November 1987 · Hisar, HaryanaPresident: E. Balanandan · General Secretary: D. Janakiraman · Treasurer: M. K. Batabyal
  3. 325–28 September 1992 · Barrackpore, West BengalPresident: E. Balanandan · General Secretary: D. Janakiraman · Treasurer: Raghubir Singh
  4. 47–9 April 2000 · ChandigarhPresident: E. Balanandan · General Secretary: B. S. Meel · Treasurer: Kuldip Singh
  5. 530 August – 1 September 2003 · Anpara, Uttar PradeshPresident: E. Balanandan · General Secretary: B. S. Meel · Treasurer: Kuldip Singh
  6. 622–24 January 2009 · Kolaghat, West BengalPresident: K. O. Habeeb · General Secretary: Prasanta N. Chowdhury · Treasurer: S. S. SubramanianConstitution amended: conference every three years.
  7. 710–12 August 2013 · Kanchipuram, Tamil NaduPresident: K. O. Habeeb · General Secretary: Prasanta N. Chowdhury · Treasurer: S. S. SubramanianConstitution amended on office-bearers and Working Committee.
  8. 818–20 August 2017 · Hyderabad, TelanganaPresident: K. O. Habeeb · General Secretary: Prasanta N. Chowdhury · Treasurer: S. S. Subramanian
  9. 913–15 October 2022 · ChandigarhPresident: Elamaram Kareem · General Secretary: Prasanta N. Chowdhury · Treasurer: S. Rajendran
  10. 1010–12 March 2025 · Thiruvananthapuram, KeralaPresident: Elamaram Kareem · General Secretary: Sudip Dutta · Treasurer: S. RajendranFortieth year of EEFI. Birth centenary of Comrade E. Balanandan.

General Secretary’s report, 10th Conference · Office-bearers elected in March 2025 · State unions