DVC-govt broker truce, no more power cuts from Saturday

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.