Puducherry govt requests for power grid officials to tackle stir by electricity employees

Puducherry, Oct 3 (IANS) The Puducherry authorities has requested the Centre to provide the offerings of strength grid officers to address the disaster inside the strength region of the union territory.

Notably, the personnel of the strength branch of the Union Territory are on an indefinite strike when you consider that September 28.

They are protesting towards the authorities’s move of inviting soft to privatise electricity distribution. The Union Territory is facing a crisis with several components plunging into darkness after a few electricity workforce allegedly took away fuse wires in some locations.

Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has warned agitating employees of evoking stringent motion of the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in opposition to them. On Saturday night time, some parts of the kingdom witnessed energy cuts for five to seven hours and in a few locations, it continued until Sunday. People blocked the roads in Villiyanur and Ariyapalayam.

State Home minister A. Namassivayam, who additionally holds the power portfolio, referred to as an urgent meeting of the police officers and requested an extra employer of CRPF.

In rural regions of Sedrapet and Madagadipet, protestors blocked the road for hours on Sunday leading to the local legislators taking over the matter with the house minister.

Namassivayam held an emergency meeting with top police brass and the nation Chief Secretary Rajeev Verma on Sunday overdue night time. The DG of Police, UT of Puducherry, Manoj Kumar Lal became also gift.

“We will no longer permit each person to take regulation in their hands and taking away fuse companies in sub-stations leaving standard public including sufferers at the sanatorium at their mercy can by no means be allowed.

We have requested the imperative authorities to install the offerings of Power Grid of India officers to govern the situation in addition to two corporations of paramilitary pressure to face defend to the energy stations in the territory,” he instructed IANS.