India, Oct. 23 -- The Haryana government on Friday said it has told the state electricity regulatory commission to cancel the decision to award a parallel distribution licence to a private firm for Gurugram and Nuh that had triggered a strike by employees of state-owned power company and consequent blackouts in these areas for the past three days.

Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, at joint press conference with union representatives, said the strike had been called off. He added that the government had invoked Section 108 of the Electricity Act, 2003-which governs the power of state governments to issue policy directions to state electricity regulatory commissions-for approaching the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC).

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