Circular 02/2025 — Office Bearers, 2 June 2025

Office Bearers met on 2 June 2025 at B.T.R. Bhawan. The sitting opened with homage to Comrade V.S. Ajith Kumar, former EEFI office bearer and a veteran of the Kerala electricity movement.

Comrade Elamaram Kareem placed the international and national situation. The meeting reviewed the May Working Committee tasks and fixed the next line.

Regional in-charges are to keep a live link with every affiliated union and send a written report to the Centre seven days before each Office Bearers or Working Committee sitting.

Sub-committees and conveners: New Media — M.G. Suresh Kumar; Policy response — Arul Selvan and Shine Raj; Working women — Deepa K. Rajan; Youth — Harpal Singh; Finance — S. Rajendran; Legal and NTPC — Arul Selvan; POWERGRID — M.G. Suresh Kumar.

Campaign for the 9 July strike: two leaflets — one to employees, one to consumers; notice by 20 June. A Centre pamphlet against private prepaid smart metering, with Kerala’s public meter as the other model. State conventions to launch Electricity Employees’ and Consumers’ Forums, with CITU, AIKS and residents’ organisations.

First EEFI young workers’ meeting: 24 August 2025, Hyderabad. Regional cadre classes in July–August. Joint sitting of the energy federations: 27 July 2025, Thiruvananthapuram. Working Committee: 30–31 August 2025, Ooty.

Nationwide Palestine solidarity on 18 June 2025, lunch-hour, banners and posters. Collection for the Cuban people to the Centre by 30 June. Eighty years of the victory over fascism and of the WFTU — seminars in the unions.

Two resolutions: solidarity with Telangana artisans fighting for regularisation; opposition to the pension-rule amendment and a call for united action.