India, Oct. 29 -- On behalf of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), we congratulate the Haryana electricity employees and engineers on their recent historic victory. More than 40,000 of them brought the State's power system to a standstill in a 48-hour Statewide strike and forced the Government to issue a policy direction under Section 108 of the Electricity Act, 2003, against the grant of a parallel distribution licence to a private company for Gurugram and Nuh.

Under the impact of the strike, the Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini publicly declared that parallel licencing would not be allowed in Haryana. Farmers' organisations, other trade unions and ordinary consumers stood with the strikers, despite prolonged power and water cuts.

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