Chandigarh administration imposes six-month ban on strike by electricity department employees
Chandigarh administration imposes six-month ban on strike by electricity department employees
The Chandigarh administration banned employees of the engineering department (electricity) from a call strike for the next six months on Tuesday.
Orders signed by the Chandigarh advisor immediately apply.
“Administrator, UT, Chandigarh Satisfied that every strike in the work of the Engineering Department (Electrical Wing), UT Chandigarh, will affect distribution, transmission, operation and maintenance of electricity supply which is an important service for the community and the possibility of influencing distribution, transmission, operation and maintenance Electricity supply in the union area in Indonesia Chandigarh, “said the command.
“Administrator, UT, Chandigarh is more satisfied that the prohibition of strikes by the department employees is in public interest and need to ban strike.”
The development came on the day when several parts of the Chandigarh faced blackouts on the first day of the three-day strike of the Chandigarh Electricity Department against the proposed privatization of the diskomy. Chandigarh administration has told Punjab and Haryana High Court, who took Suo Motu’s awareness of the electricity crisis in the city, that the power supply disorder in the city could be a “sabotage action”.
