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RAIPUR: Seventeen Unions affiliated to the Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) have decided to go on an indefinite strike from Monday midnight opposing proposed division of the Board.

Chhattisgarh government has decided to divide the Board into five entities - one holding company and four others to manage transmission, distribution, production and trading.

“We proposed the government to constitute two companies instead of five. Besides, we want the government to consult the Unions on the finer points of the division issue.

The Chief Minister patiently heard us, when a delegation met him yesterday but gave no assurance,” said the General Secretary CSEB Engineers Association, Mr P N Singh. If the government does not take our suggestions into consideration and take a decision on Monday, we would go on strike from midnight,” Mr Singh said. “We explained our position to the CM, and are expecting a favourable response from the government”, he said.

The final division of the Board is to take place on December 31 as per the requirement of Electricity Act 2003. A separate trading company for selling surplus electricity to others would prove suicidal for Chhattisgarh as the Centre might curtail the sta te's quota of 600 MW once Chhattisgarh enters into power trading through a separate company, Unions said.

“The Centre had done this to Chhattisgarh and will again do it to provide the electricity to states which are struggling with huge power deficit. So we suggest government not to form a separate trading unit but form separate company for transmission,” Mr Singh, the chief negotiator the Union, said. - PTI

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