Power disruption: Chandigarh admn cracks whip, suspends two JEs

In its first steps to fix responsibility for the large-scale power outages during the powermen’s strike on February 22 and 23, the UT administration on Friday initiated action against a number of electricity department employees.

The administration suspended two junior engineers, who were supervising electricity supply of GMCH-32 and GMSH-16 when the strike started, and terminated the services of 17 outsourced employees.

Also, a show-cause notice was issued to the superintending engineer (electricity) for lack of cooperation with the army authorities in restoration of power supply after the electricity department employees went on strike.