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Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, July 15The UT Administration has revived a four-year-old proposal for restructuring the Electricity Department by turning it into a corporation. Private companies will work for profit unlike the government’s electricity department. In other states where privatisation was done, not only tariffs increased, but services were also deteriorated.”The union has decided to hold protest rallies against the UT proposal from July 17. The Electricity Act also favours converting the department into a corporation to make the distribution of electricity more viable. The UT Administration buys electricity for Rs 600 crores and faces hassles in buying it..