Chandigarh: The Dark Age Descends
Chandigarh, the first planned city of independent India, faced arguably the longest power outage in its history on Tuesday, not caused by extreme weather but by an administration caught napping despite being forewarned of a 72-hour strike by UT power employees union weeks ago.
It imposed Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) late in the evening but to no avail even as the Punjab and Haryana High Court summoned the chief engineer on Wednesday. Sources said Administration is getting the help of Military Engineering Service (MES), Western Command, Chandimandir, to restore the power supply.
