Chandigarh electricity employees go on 3-day strike; many sectors face outage

Many areas in the city faced disruption in power supply as employees of the Electricity Department went on a three-day strike in protest against the privatisation of the department.

Residents of Modern Housing Complex, Category IV, Manimajra, said that electricity went off just after midnight in their area and it was yet to be restored.

Similarly, residents of Sectors 30-A, 46 and 28-D, said there was no light in their area since 4 am.

Also, there was no light in whole of Sector 40. Residents in Sectors 38-B, 24, 46, 41, 42 and 9 also faced a blackout.

A resident of Sector 9 said there was no reply when he called on the complaint number, whereas other two numbers were busy.