Punjab engineers refuse help to Chandigarh Electricity Department

Power engineers from Punjab have refused to come to the rescue of the Chandigarh Power Department following outages after their power staff went on strike.

VK Gupta, spokesperson, All India Power Engineers Federation, said the power engineers and employees organised demonstrations across the country in support of anti-privatisation strike of the Chandigarh electricity employees. A memorandum has been sent to the Union Home Minister with demands to drop the unscrupulous decision for privatisation of efficiently managed, low tariff power department of Chandigarh to the costliest power provider of the country.