As many as seven districts of Jharkhand that are suffering acute power crisis owing to extended outages by Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) can heave a sigh of relief from Friday midnight as the power company has agreed to end the blackouts, on for several weeks now because of a protracted dispute over pending dues, after a high-level meeting with the state government.
Following summons from the state government over the crisis in about seven districts under the DVC command area, its chairman R N Singh was in Ranchi on Friday for a meeting chaired by the state education minister Jagarnnath Mahto and finance minister Rameshwar Oraon. Some MLAs too attended the meeting besides officials of the state energy department in a bid to work out a truce.
