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29 October 2026 · Petition · Haryana
HERC will not proceed with the parallel licence; EEFI warns against listing and an Agri DISCOM
Press note, 29 October 2026. The order of 28 October gives effect to the Section 108 direction of 26 October, for so long as that direction remains operative. The Centre is pressing Haryana to list the public utilities.
23 October 2026 · Victory · Haryana
Historic victory of Haryana power employees; the strike is called off
Press note, 23 October 2026. The strike is called off. The Energy Department has signed a Section 108 direction: the Commission is not to operationalise a parallel licence anywhere in Haryana.
23 October 2026 · Strike Call · Haryana
Haryana strike continues: EEFI asks for a Section 108 direction against the parallel licence
Press note, 23 October 2026. The state government has indicated it will issue a policy direction. EEFI has sent a draft, and asks the Chief Minister to announce that Eleven Power will not be allowed a parallel licence.
22 October 2026 · Strike Call · Haryana
EEFI salutes Haryana power employees’ historic strike
Press statement No. 10th/EEFI/Press/02/2026, 22 October 2026. Cancel the parallel licence granted to Eleven Power for Gurugram and Nuh. Warns the governments against crushing the strike.
4 October 2026 · Conference · Kerala
The General Council concludes with the spirit raised
Kolkata, 4 October. Delegates debated the industry report through the day. Kerala’s public CAPEX meters were the example. The future tasks were adopted. President Elamaram Kareem closed the council.
3 October 2026 · Conference · West Bengal
First day of the General Council: from the flag to the industry panel
Kolkata, 3 October 2026. President Elamaram Kareem hoisted the flag. Thirty delegates discussed the reports. The day closed on the industry panel: electricity, first made a commodity, is being turned into a speculative commodity.
3 October 2026 · Conference · Bihar
Organisational report: expand utility by utility, organise the unorganised — Sudip Dutta
General Secretary Sudip Dutta placed Part I of the report at the first All India General Council, Kolkata, 3 October 2026. Jharkhand has applied to affiliate. Bihar is back in the council. The Karnataka contract workers met on 29 September.
3 October 2026 · Conference · Delhi
Oppose the Labour Codes and the anti-worker, anti-people policies of the Centre: Elamaram Kareem
Presidential address at the first General Council, Kolkata. The burden of the crisis is being placed on workers and the people. The answer is organised struggle, including Occupy Delhi from 1 December.
3–4 October 2026 · Conference · West Bengal
First All India General Council opens at Kolkata
Com. J.S. Rathore Nagar, Bidhannagar. President Elamaram Kareem hoisted the flag. Office-bearers and delegates paid homage at the martyrs’ column. About 120 delegates.
4 October 2026 · Strike Call · Odisha
Odisha: Puri workers demonstrate against retrenchment in TPCODL
Meter-reading and billing workers of the Puri Division held a protest demonstration on 4 October 2026. The unions have said they will begin a work boycott if the demands are not met by 12 October.
26 September 2026 · Notice · Kerala
Kerala: CAPEX smart metering holds — Phase II at a national-low rate
Phase I monthly rates and the Phase II bid list are set out below. Fifty lakh meters stay with KSEB. GridCrest is lowest at ₹3,241 crore, about ₹2,800 a meter. The Kochi meeting kept CAPEX.
26 September 2026 · Notice
Draft National Electricity Policy 2026: access, scarcity and a failed reform model
The draft says access and scarcity are over, then hands the rest to tariffs, open access, capacity markets and private capital. The Centre’s note tests those claims.
15 September 2026 · Petition · Haryana
Haryana: EEFI asks HERC to reject Eleven Power after the expert report
Petition No. 30 of 2026. Gurugram and Nuh hold more than 42 per cent of DHBVNL’s revenue. The Committee’s own findings require refusal.
27 July 2026 · Letter · Haryana
Letter to the Chief Minister of Haryana: withdraw Agri DISCOM and parallel licence
EEFI supports the three-day statewide strike of 11–13 August 2026 and asks the government to negotiate with the Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha.
30 June 2026 · Victory · Karnataka
Karnataka: Tata Power withdraws the parallel-licence petitions
A historic victory of electricity employees, engineers, farmers and the people. The 29 June Bengaluru convention turned the government, and then the petitioner.
28 June 2026 · Strike Call · Punjab
Punjab power employees and pensioners march on the Chief Minister’s house at Sangrur
Thousands demand implementation of signed agreements, filling of vacancies and a halt to privatisation. Statewide agitation announced from 1 July.
15 June 2026 · Petition · Haryana
Haryana: EEFI objects to Eleven Power’s parallel licence for Gurugram and Nuh
Petition No. 30 of 2026 before HERC. A one-year-old company with ₹1 crore paid-up capital seeking DHBVNL’s paying circles.
12 June 2026 · Notice · West Bengal
West Bengal: resist the Chief Secretary’s order to put smart meters in employees’ homes
Circular No. 183/CS/2026, dated 10 June 2026, treats a government worker’s residence as an RDSS target. A working meter is not the state’s to swap by office order.
2 June 2026 · Strike Call · Maharashtra
Mumbai: ten thousand scheme workers open CITU’s capital-city mobilisations
Azad Maidan. Anganwadi, ASHA and NHM workers of Maharashtra. EEFI supports the struggle. More cities to follow.
25 May 2026 · Notice
Note on recent political-economic developments
Annexure I to Circular 01/2026. Energy shock, austerity, Labour Codes. The 10th Conference line: be on the street.
25 May 2026 · Notice
Power sector note — peak demand, solar hours and the market
Annexure II. Peak 256.1 GW on 25 April 2026. Night deficit. Exchange price at ₹20 a unit. Draft NEP 2026 and market coupling.
25 May 2026 · Notice
Protect existing union registration under the IR Code
Annexure III. Unions registered under the 1926 Act remain registered if they file the conformity statement and bring bye-laws into line with Section 7.
9 November 2025 · Strike Call · Punjab
Tarn Taran Sahib: electricity employees against sale of Punjab power properties
A mass protest against the state government’s sale of electricity assets and against the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2025.
9 July 2025 · Strike Call · Kerala
Kochi Refinery: workers strike after the High Court ban
BPCL Kochi Refinery employees ignored the Kerala High Court order and joined the 9 July general strike. Petroleum and electricity stand on one energy sector.
6 June 2025 · Notice · Himachal Pradesh
Note — conferences, Himachal, nuclear units, Jharkhand
Annexure to Circular 02/2025. New ground in states without an affiliate. Nuclear production chain. District mobilisation in Himachal.
7 May 2025 · Notice
Note on the Iberian blackout — causes, consequences and public power
EEFI Centre note for POWERGRID and NTPC workers. Spain and Portugal, 28–29 April 2025. Six crore people. Privatised grids and coupled systems without public control.
20 April 2025 · Strike Call · West Bengal
Brigade Parade Ground: ten lakh of Bengal’s working people, then the factory gate
Workers, peasants and agricultural workers assembled at Kolkata. From the Brigade to the factory gate — prepare the 20 May general strike.
9 April 2025 · Strike Call · Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: twenty thousand electricity employees demand rollback of DISCOM privatisation
Workers travelled 26–28 hours across Uttar Pradesh. NCCOEEE fixed a northern regional action on 14 May and a national strike on 20 May. An indefinite strike from 29 May if the sale is not withdrawn.
21 March 2025 · Strike Call · West Bengal
Eastern Region of NCCOEEE prepares the 20 May 2025 national strike
Kolkata meeting of electricity federations treats generation, transmission, distribution, coal import and prepaid metering as one privatisation offensive.
14 March 2025 · Conference · Kerala
Tenth National Conference, Thiruvananthapuram: forty years of EEFI
More than 350 delegates from 22 states and four Union Territories resolved to stop privatisation and to prepare two national strikes.
23 February 2025 · Conference · Maharashtra
Nagpur: national convention of electricity unions and associations sets the strike line
Bhai Bardhan Memorial Hall. All unions and associations of employees and engineers of the power sector. Two national strike dates against privatisation and the Labour Codes.
20 January 2025 · Strike Call · Telangana
Telangana artisans begin a four-day relay hunger strike for regularisation
TVAC JAC, 20–24 January 2025. Contract and outsourced electricity artisans demand absorption into regular service.
December 2024 · Notice · Chandigarh
Chandigarh: employees, families and residents against sale of the Electricity Department
Stop the privatisation of electricity — Department of Chandigarh (U.T.). A public utility that pays its way is not a market for private licence.
12 February 2024 · Letter · Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu constituents oppose trifurcation of TANGEDCO
EEFI units submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister and opened a statewide struggle against the circular splitting the utility.
2023 · Strike Call · Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir: peaceful protest at Qazigund, Anantnag
The Non-Gazetted Electrical Employees Association pressed pending demands. EEFI sent greetings to the action.
20 March 2023 · Strike Call · Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh: government rolls back terminations after 72-hour strike
United forum of electricity employees and engineers forced a retreat after the 16–18 March strike, held under the threat of ESMA.
20 March 2023 · Notice
WFTU Working Women Committee: report from India
EEFI placed the condition of women electricity workers — maternity rights, COVID-era exploitation, and the unfinished work of organisation — before the international committee.
13–15 October 2022 · Conference · Chandigarh
Ninth National Conference held at Chandigarh
The conference that preceded the fortieth-year session in Kerala.
1 April 2022 · Notice · Karnataka
Karnataka: twenty percent wage hike notified
The Chief Minister announced a 20 percent wage revision with effect from 1 April 2022 after sustained pressure from electricity unions.

From the book

Essays from Swami: The People’s Comrade, released at the 10th National Conference.

News

HERC will not proceed with the parallel licence; EEFI warns against listing and an Agri DISCOM

Historic victory of Haryana power employees; the strike is called off

Haryana strike continues: EEFI asks for a Section 108 direction against the parallel licence

EEFI salutes Haryana power employees’ historic strike

The General Council concludes with the spirit raised

First day of the General Council: from the flag to the industry panel

Organisational report: expand utility by utility, organise the unorganised — Sudip Dutta

Oppose the Labour Codes and the anti-worker, anti-people policies of the Centre: Elamaram Kareem

First All India General Council opens at Kolkata

Odisha: Puri workers demonstrate against retrenchment in TPCODL

Kerala: CAPEX smart metering holds — Phase II at a national-low rate

Draft National Electricity Policy 2026: access, scarcity and a failed reform model

Haryana: EEFI asks HERC to reject Eleven Power after the expert report

Letter to the Chief Minister of Haryana: withdraw Agri DISCOM and parallel licence

Karnataka: Tata Power withdraws the parallel-licence petitions

Punjab power employees and pensioners march on the Chief Minister’s house at Sangrur

Haryana: EEFI objects to Eleven Power’s parallel licence for Gurugram and Nuh

West Bengal: resist the Chief Secretary’s order to put smart meters in employees’ homes

Mumbai: ten thousand scheme workers open CITU’s capital-city mobilisations

Note on recent political-economic developments

Power sector note — peak demand, solar hours and the market

Protect existing union registration under the IR Code

Tarn Taran Sahib: electricity employees against sale of Punjab power properties

Kochi Refinery: workers strike after the High Court ban

Note — conferences, Himachal, nuclear units, Jharkhand

Note on the Iberian blackout — causes, consequences and public power

Brigade Parade Ground: ten lakh of Bengal’s working people, then the factory gate

Lucknow: twenty thousand electricity employees demand rollback of DISCOM privatisation

Eastern Region of NCCOEEE prepares the 20 May 2025 national strike

Tenth National Conference, Thiruvananthapuram: forty years of EEFI

Nagpur: national convention of electricity unions and associations sets the strike line

Telangana artisans begin a four-day relay hunger strike for regularisation

Chandigarh: employees, families and residents against sale of the Electricity Department

Tamil Nadu constituents oppose trifurcation of TANGEDCO

Jammu and Kashmir: peaceful protest at Qazigund, Anantnag

Uttar Pradesh: government rolls back terminations after 72-hour strike

WFTU Working Women Committee: report from India

Ninth National Conference held at Chandigarh

Karnataka: twenty percent wage hike notified

From the book

Preface

Dignified Thoughts and Simple Life

Remembering Comrade E. Balanandan

Militant Blue-Collar Factory Worker to President of CITU

A Life Devoted to the Cause of the Working People

A Pillar of the Working-Class Movement and Marxist Leadership

Some Memories with Great Leader Comrade E. Balanandan

Honouring Comrade E. Balanandan: A Pillar of Hope and Resistance

Comrade E. Balanandan

Reflections on Comrade E. Balanandan: A Legacy of Clarity and Unity

Power Sector Reforms and Their Risky Consequences

An Unparalleled Revolutionary Genius Emerging from the Working Class