India, March 7 -- Power sector engineers' body AIPEF on Friday said that 27 lakh workers associated with it will boycott work on March 10 to protest against a proposed legislation aimed at changing the country's electricity distribution framework.

There is strong resentment among power employees and engineers over the Government's plan to table the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 in Parliament, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) said in a statement.

The draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 has provisions for allowing multiple electricity distributors to operate in the same area using shared infrastructure. The bill also provides for cost-reflective tariffs while protecting subsidised consumers and eliminating cross-subsid...