Chandigarh, Aug. 23 -- The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has asked the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) to make public the report of the three-member expert committee set up to examine the bid of a 2025 incorporated private company, Eleven Power, for a parallel electricity distribution licence in Gurugram and Nuh revenue districts. The committee is headed by retired Haryana IAS officer Alok Nigam, who headed Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) for 10 months and Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) for two months. The other members are Ravinder Kumar Sharma, an engineer and former managing director of Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEBL) and Bibhu Prasad Mahapatra, former director (finance) of power utilities in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha. Chairman AIPEF Shailendra Dubey in a letter to power regulators has sought a copy of the expert committee's report along with its findings and recommendations. The regulator had said that the expert committee will function as an independent expert body and its report shall be recommendatory in nature which shall neither affect nor fetter the statutory powers of the commission to adjudicate in accordance with the Electricity Act, 2003 along with the rules framed therein. Dubey said that the report cannot be regarded as a mere internal administrative document having no bearing upon the rights and interests of the parties. All intervenors and affected stakeholders are furnished a reasonable opportunity to file their written comments on the findings and recommendations and an opportunity of oral hearing. The AIPEF said that the proposed parallel distribution licence is not a matter confined to the commercial interests of the applicant alone. The committee was also directed to examine universal service obligations, consumer migration and consumer protection, including existing contracts, security deposits, arrears, metering, continuity of supply and grievance redressal. AIPEF has also sought assurance from the regulator that no final order granting the proposed parallel distribution licence be passed without first providing all affected stakeholders a full, fair and meaningful opportunity to respond to every material relied upon by the commission. AIPEF media advisor VK Gupta said that engineers have urged HERC to uphold transparency, fairness and larger public interest by rejecting the parallel distribution licence petition. The federation has opposed power sector privatisation via tariff based competitive bidding (TBCB) in transmission system, parallel distribution license proposals, and formation of agriculture discoms, and monetisation of power assets. "These policies will dismantle public infrastructure built with public funds and burden state utilities. This would undermine the public electricity distribution system, increase tariffs for ordinary consumers, weaken cross-subsidy, and ultimately pave the way for privatisation of the power sector," Gupta said. Eleven Power has petitioned the HERC seeking grant of a parallel power distribution license under sections 14 and 15 of the Electricity Act, 2003 for the two districts....