Chandigarh Power outage: The electrical energy employees are objecting against the privatisation of the electrical energy division.
Huge parts of Chandigarh have been left without electrical energy and also water for over 36 hrs after a major power failure following a three-day strike by electrical energy department workers.
Countless residences have actually lacked power and supply of water since Monday evening and traffic control are not working in lots of locations in the city. Government medical facilities have actually rescheduled surgical treatments.
The Chandigarh Wellness Solutions Supervisor Dr Suman Singh told PTI: “We have a back-up strategy like we have generators. However you can not place 100 per cent tons of a health center on a generator. So, we needed to reschedule or delay our planned surgical procedures.”
The power cut has likewise closed down on-line courses as well as mentoring institutes.
The electricity workers are opposing versus the privatisation of the electrical power division. Union Region Consultant Dharam Buddy held a conference with the powermen’s union to encourage them to abort the strike, however there is no resolution thus far.
The protesting employees are afraid privatisation will change their solution problems as well as result in an increase in power tariffs.
On Tuesday night, the Chandigarh administration on Tuesday night enforced the Necessary Services Maintenance Act, outlawing strikes by the power division for six months.
Authorities of the Chandigarh administration declared they had made plans to keep power supply, however residents and also investors in several areas of the city suffered blackouts.
Power cuts have likewise hit commercial manufacturing and also manufacturing at some units in the city.
The Punjab as well as Haryana High court intervened the other day as well as has actually summoned the Union Area’s Chief Designer on Wednesday.
Justices Ajay Tewari as well as Pankaj Jain of the High Court directed the Principal Engineer to notify them of actions being taken to alleviate the power situation in Chandigarh.
“It has actually been brought to our notification that power supply to large components of the city of Chandigarh has actually been interrupted. In the circumstances, we are constricted to use up this matter on the judicial side as well as have actually subsequently asked for the learned senior standing counsel, UT, Chandigarh to apprise us of the setups which the management is making to ensure that undue challenge is not caused to the residents of the city,” the court order stated.
The Chandigarh administration’s attorney Anil Mehta told the courts that “the power failing gets on account of acts of sabotage by the striking employees”.
He said Punjab as well as Haryana had been asked to loan their power employees to help aid the crisis.
The court noted the attorney’s statement that Punjab has actually “revealed its failure to send anyone on deputation”.
“This court can not be oblivious of the truth that interruption of power supply is not only impacting the common citizens yet might influence establishments like healthcare facilities where patients may be on ventilators and also other life support group. Aside from that there are on-line assessments and also classes which students are taking. Oftentimes, virtual hearing has been interrupted in this court additionally since legal representatives are unable to appear because of the reality that there is no electricity in their workplaces. In such scenarios, the interruption of electrical power supply can create irrevocable damages,” claimed the order.
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Last Updated: 23 Feb 2022