Striking power workers plunge Andhra into darkness
Supply was restored in Chittoor, Kadapa, Nellore, Guntur, Prakasam
and Krishna districts after the managing director of Southern Power
Distribution Company Limited HY Dora held talks with employees' leaders.
The strike caused severe inconvenience to people in Seemandhra, as
Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra are together known. There was no
exemption to emergency services like hospitals, water supply and
agriculture. Power supply in Vijayawada, Guntur, Ongole, Nellore,
Anantapur and other towns was also hit. In south coastal Andhra,
employees cut supply to even the houses of central and state ministers,
blaming them for the failure to stall the central government's decision
to carve out separate Telangana state.
An indefinite strike
launched on Sunday by electricity employees of Rayalaseema and the
coastal region of Andhra Pradesh hit power supply in six districts of
the state and also forced the railways to cancel train services.
Hundreds of villages in six coastal Andhra districts plunged into
darkness as the electricity employees went on an indefinite strike to
protest the Centre's decision to create a separate Telangana state.
Seemandhra electricity employees' Joint Action Committee (JAC) said over
30,000 electricity employees were participating in the strike in
Seemandhra, as Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions are collectively
known. The indefinite strike began after an earlier 48-hour-long strike
ended on Sunday to protest the Union Cabinet's decision to bifurcate the
state.
In : POWER NEWS