Long power cuts make Panchkula sweat, residents threaten protests

THE PROMISE of an ‘Inverter-free’ Panchkula seems like a far of dream to thousands of prime sector residents as they grapple with hour long shutdowns every day.

In an attempt to get their issues resolved, several residents have been frequenting the offices of local UHBVN and local MLA and Speaker of Haryana legislative Assembly, Gian Chand Gupta.

Residents complain that several scheduled as well as unscheduled power outages have been hitting their sectors for almost three weeks now. Earlier this year, state Power Minister Ranjit Singh had said in a statement that the government was planning to provide uninterrupted power supply to make Gurgaon and Panchkula inverter-free cities.