Protesting Chandigarh power dept employees call off strike \
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Protesting Chandigarh power dept employees call off strike

23-Feb-2022
Chandigarh Feb 23 PTI Protesting employees of the city electricity department on Wednesday evening called off their strike while power supply has also been restored in the most parts of the city The decision to call off the three-day strike that was to end on Thursday night was taken after a meeting between the representatives of the UT Powermen Union and senior officials of the Chandigarh administration The city residents have faced the worst-ever electricity crisis in the history of Chandigarh as the disruption in power supply adversely affected residential industrial and commercial areas Even the government hospitals in the union territory had to reschedule elective surgeries Employees of the electricity department under the banner of the UT Powermen Union had gone on a strike on late Monday night against UT Chandigarh administrations move to privatise the department After the meeting with the officials of the administration UT Powermen Union president Dhian Singh said they have called off the strike Addressing the media on Wednesday evening Dharam Pal adviser to the UT Administrator said power to most of the areas has been restored since the staff has joined their duties Some areas might still be affected but we will restore power in those areas as well by today evening said the adviser The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday evening had invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act banning strikes by the electricity department for six months He said the armys help was also taken to restore the electricity in the city Six feeders were restored Tuesday night he said adding that by Wednesday noon power supply in 80 per cent of the area was restored Pal also read out the proceedings of the meeting with the union members and said that the union requested that the sympathetic view should be taken regarding those employees who join their duty on Wednesday itself The Deputy Commissioner Chandigarh assured that a reasonable sympathetic view will be taken regarding such employees who joined their duty today he said Appropriate legal action will be taken against those employees who will still be absent from duty he further said The adviser said on the request of the union the deputy commissioner assured that the department will not issue LoI letter of intent to a selected private agency till the next date of hearing in the Punjab and Haryana High Court The matter pertaining to the privatization of the electricity department is pending before the high court Notably in 2020 the Chandigarh administration had decided to privatize the department and later the UT Powermen Union approached the high court against this move The Chandigarh administration on Wednesday assured the Punjab and Haryana high court that it would restore 100 percent electricity by 10 pm The high court on Tuesday had taken suo-motu notice of the electricity crisis and had asked the UT chief engineer to appear before the court on Wednesday Residents of Chandigarh at some places faced power outages on Wednesday morning Harried residents of the union territory Chandigarh which is the common capital of Punjab and Haryana had blamed the city administration for remaining a mute spectator leaving them in lurch as the power outages crippled the city Congress MP from Anandpur Sahib Manish Tewari on Wednesday had sought intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the matter saying there is chaos and anarchy and all essential services have come to a standstill PTI CHS VSD MR MR
23-Feb-2022 National
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Power crisis Chandigarh residents at few places still face power outages on Wednesday morning \
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Power crisis Chandigarh residents at few places still face power outages on Wednesday morning

23-Feb-2022
Chandigarh Feb 23 PTI Residents of some parts of Chandigarh continued to face power outages on Wednesday morning with electricity supply remaining disrupted after the employees of the electricity department went on a three-day strike against privatisation Harried residents of Chandigarh which is the countrys first planned city blamed the city administration for remaining a mute spectator leaving them in lurch as the power outages crippled the city Congress MP from Anandpur Sahib Manish Tewari sought intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the matter saying there is chaos and anarchy and all essential services have come to a standstill Dear AmitShah ji Chandigarh has been without electricity for 36 hours There is chaos anarchy All Essential Services are at a standstill ChandigarhAdmn has miserably failed to address the situation Chandigarh is an Union Territory Kindly intervene said Tewari in a tweet on Wednesday The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday evening had invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act banning strikes by the electricity department for six months There were however reports that electricity supply was getting restored at some places The outage since Monday night forced government hospitals in the union territory to reschedule elective surgeries besides adversely affecting residential industrial and commercial areas in the city Not only adversely affecting online classes there was a chaos on roads with traffic lights at many intersections remained non-functional I have never seen in my life such an electricity crisis in Chandigarh said an elderly resident of Sector 20 here on Wednesday morning He blamed the city administration for not taking measures to deal with the situation caused by the electricity department employees strike Water supply was also hit at some places because of disruption in electricity supply Another city resident appealed to protesting employees to call off their strike saying it was the common man who was suffering because of the power outage Many shopkeepers said their goods like dairy products poultry and meat products which need to be refrigerated have started getting perished Our food items which should be stored in low temperatures are getting perished as there is no electricity rued a shopkeeper The industrial unit owners have also pegged huge losses because of loss of production caused by power shutdown in industrial areas Employees of the electricity department under the banner of the UT Powermen Union went on a strike on Monday night against UT Chandigarh administrations move to privatise the electricity department The protesting employees claimed that if the electricity department was privatised their service conditions would change and it also could lead to a rise in power tariffs PTI CHS VSD MKJ
23-Feb-2022 National
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Nationwide OPD stir Goa resident doctors association to wear black arm bands \
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Nationwide OPD stir Goa resident doctors association to wear black arm bands

01-Dec-2021
Panaji Nov 30 PTI The Goa Association of Resident Doctors GARD will work with black arm bands from Wednesday onward in solidarity with counterparts from Federation of Resident Doctors Association FORDA which has called a nationwide strike of OPD services demanding speeding up of the NEET PG 2021 counseling and admission process GARD president Dr Pratik Sawant told PTI on Tuesday his outfit had given notice to the medical superintendent of Goa Medical College to withdraw routine services from the Out Patient Department indefinitely from Wednesday Despite this prior notice the state government invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act from Tuesday he said GARD has decided not to go ahead with the OPD strike but instead work with black arm bands as a mark of protest The lack of support from the government which invoked ESMA is disheartening We had called for withdrawal of only OPD services and other facilities be it in wards casualty etc would not have been hampered he added PTI RPS BNM BNM BNM
01-Dec-2021 National
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