Overview
- Electricity staff began a statewide strike on Wednesday night, with about 40,000 employees absent from duty and many 11 kV and 33 kV feeders left unattended.
- The walkout produced thousands of outage complaints and outages across more than a dozen districts, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power, disrupting water pumps and halting production at hundreds of factories.
- Residents staged road blockades and protests in Gurugram, Rewari, Faridabad and other towns as inverter backups drained and repairs went unstaffed.
- The Haryana government has cancelled leave for power staff, deployed police to guard substations and filed to appeal the HERC licence decision at the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity while urging workers to return to duty.
- Unions say the HERC licence amounts to privatisation that would let a private firm cherry-pick high‑revenue customers and threaten jobs and DHBVN’s finances, and they have warned the strike could become indefinite if the licence is not revoked.