Over 200 Faridabad colony residents protest power outage, block road

Over 200 residents, including women and children, blocked the Ballabhgarh-Sohna road to protest against disrupted power supply for the past four days in a residential colony here today. With the police intervention, the blockade was lifted after 45 minutes, resulting in traffic snarls for about an hour.

“The residents of Jeevan Nagar Part 2 are facing power outages since September 21. In order to highlight their grievance, they had to resort to a blockade, as officials of the power department did not address the problem,” said Trilok Sharma, a local resident. He said a similar protest was also held on Saturday but the authorities concerned had failed to restore the power supply even after 96 hours.