Power cut in Hyderabad and RR District for 2 Hrs

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:46

Written by Nayanika

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The people's strike ( Sakala Janula Samme) by the state government employees belonging to the region has gradually begun to envelope the Greater Hyderabad region with the authorities imposing a two-hour staggered power cut in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts effective Wednesday. 

The power cuts are due to the boycott of work by employees of Singareni Collieries Company Limited where coal production has effectively dropped to zero ever since the general strike began on September 13.

While the strike has already paralysed normal life in the other Telangana districts, the districts of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy have managed to limp along till now as shops and establishments, shopping malls, cinema halls, autorickshaws and petrol pumps have managed to remain open till date.

Only educational institutions in the Greater Hyderabad region have been forced to stay shut while services at the various RTA offices have been badly affected. APSRTC, which operated about 3,000 buses in GHMC limits, did not ply a single bus on Monday but managed to ply about 271 vehicles on Tuesday.

However, with the GHMC employees joining the strike on Tuesday , which effectively paralysed all citizenry services in all its offices, and power cuts made mandatory from Wednesday, the state capital is gradually inching towards a shutdown already on in the other T districts. Auto drivers in the city are slated to strike for two days on September 24 and 25, while the Telangana Political JAC has called for a rail roko across the region on the same two days. "If the general strike continues for a few more days, it is not long before normal life is paralysed in the Greater Hyderabad region as well," said state government sources in the grip of the crisis.

Giving a lethal blow to the state administration is the total participation of the 70,000-odd workers of Singareni Collieries in the four districts of Adilabad, Karimnagar , Khammam and Warangal right from day one of the strike. The normal production of 1.5 lakh tonnes of coal by the 50 mines everyday has dropped to about 30,000 tonnes per day now with Managuru in Khammam being the sole major producer of coal.