00:00Well, let's take you through what's happening in Gurugram, where it has been crippled by widespread power outages which began
00:06late on Wednesday night.
00:08The Millennium City has been plunged into darkness due to a strike by electricity department employees.
00:13The widespread power outage has triggered a parallel water crisis across the city with areas like Ashok Vihar, sectors 4,
00:215, 23 and 105, Palam Vihar and Rajendra Park affected.
00:26The scale of the crisis is evident from the numbers.
00:28Dakshin Haryana Bijali Vitran Namika officials received more than 5,500 complaints in the first 12 hours of the power
00:36outage.
00:36Electricity department employees in Haryana have called a three-day strike to oppose a parallel distribution license granted to 11
00:44par for Gurugram and Nu.
00:46Now, the Employees Union argue that allowing a private operator to distribute electricity in high revenue areas could undermine the
00:53existing public sector distribution system
00:55and endanger around 40,000 regular contractual and outsourced employees.
01:01Haryana government has now announced that it would challenge Haryana Electricity Commission's decision to grant a parallel electricity distribution license
01:09to private firms.
01:10Government is set to hold talks with striking employees today at 3 p.m.
01:17Meanwhile, Haryana Minister Anil Bich has also urged protesters to end the protests.
01:22Listen in.
01:25It's been 24-plus hours from where I am standing right now.
01:28This is Gurgaon's new Ashok Vihar.
01:31Entire colony out of electricity since the last day.
01:35And you can see that these are not just affecting people living over here,
01:39but even businesses, small Kirana stores, medical stores,
01:42they have been out of electricity for a very long time.
01:45Sir, do you feel the smell of things all needed today?
01:48Not yesterday.
01:49I don't know.
01:50And all the mistakes that people are getting out of here.
01:51If you feel the result of our ice cream, they are not affected.
01:55And in the cause of the water are lost, people are not eating lots of bottles.
01:58There is not water for water.
02:01There is not water for water, not water for water, or drink for water, not water for water.
02:04There are some substances that come from are in the air.
02:08So things are available, which are kept on freezing.
02:10Which forms of water are not affected.
02:29These are not high rises in Gurgaon which can afford a alternate power backup.
02:39These are colonies and you can see how businesses are being affected, how people are out of water
02:45for almost 24 plus hours now with no real solution on the ground.
02:50Big question to the administration when they knew people will be hitting the ground, sitting
02:55on a protest, why did not they respond prior and ensure a safety net is provided to the
03:00people on the ground.
03:09Because Niyamak has given the advice that the private company has given us, while in
03:16Haryana Niyamak has given us a very big team and the department has given us all the
03:24power of that company.
03:52Thank you very much.
03:56Thank you very much.
04:28Thank you very much.
04:46Thank you very much.
