Uttar Pradesh Electricity Department

The Uttar Pradesh power department has fined a former district president of the Samajwadi Party Rs 54 lakh in connection with an electricity theft case, an official said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Education department has sent a show cause notice to the management of a private school in Aligarh district for allegedly intimidating children with threats of "electric chair" and also failure to renew its permit to conduct classes.

Four Varanasi power department officers were told to feed orphanage inmates in 'punishment' for inflating an electricity bill to more than 2 lakh, claiming the charges were pending since 1911 for a house connection.

Taking serious note of the strike by employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department, the Allahabad High Court today said demands cannot be made at the cost of life of people and asked why the striking employees have not been arrested.

Power supply disruption played spoilsport during a programme attended by two Uttar Pradesh ministers in Greater Noida on Sunday, amid a statewide strike by a section of the electricity department employees that was called off later in the day.

Uttar Pradesh electricity department employees on Sunday ended their 72-hour strike after several rounds of talks between their leaders and state energy minister A K Sharma.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that people of Uttar Pradesh are reeling under the "loot" of electricity bills in the BJP-ruled state and said this will be ended when her party comes to power.

Several employees of electricity department in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district say they have been wearing helmets to work because their office building is "dilapidated".

In a tit-for-tat incident of sorts, a lineman of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department cut the power supply of a police station in Firozabad, after he was fined for riding a two-wheeler without wearing a helmet, officials said on Thursday.

An Uttar Pradesh man was charged an exorbitant electricity bill of more than Rs 128 crore.

Two employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department were electrocuted to death on Sunday in a village in Agra when they were trying to fix high tension wires, police said.

Residents of Ghaziabad are facing a week of irregular power supply with electricity department officials saying that they would need seven days to repair the damage caused to transmission lines in Friday's thunderstorm.

A blame game has erupted among states over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 600 million people - over half of the country's population. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has reportedly summoned officials of five states, which drew more power than what had been allocated, leaving 19 states in the dark. The r...

In a bid to address power crisis in Uttar Pradesh, the timings of opening and closing of malls, shops and restaurants have been revised by the Labour Department, an official spokesman said in Lucknow.

The Uttar Pradesh power department has fined a former district president of the Samajwadi Party Rs 54 lakh in connection with an electricity theft case, an official said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Education department has sent a show cause notice to the management of a private school in Aligarh district for allegedly intimidating children with threats of "electric chair" and also failure to renew its permit to conduct classes.

Four Varanasi power department officers were told to feed orphanage inmates in 'punishment' for inflating an electricity bill to more than 2 lakh, claiming the charges were pending since 1911 for a house connection.

Taking serious note of the strike by employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department, the Allahabad High Court today said demands cannot be made at the cost of life of people and asked why the striking employees have not been arrested.

Power supply disruption played spoilsport during a programme attended by two Uttar Pradesh ministers in Greater Noida on Sunday, amid a statewide strike by a section of the electricity department employees that was called off later in the day.

Uttar Pradesh electricity department employees on Sunday ended their 72-hour strike after several rounds of talks between their leaders and state energy minister A K Sharma.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that people of Uttar Pradesh are reeling under the "loot" of electricity bills in the BJP-ruled state and said this will be ended when her party comes to power.

Several employees of electricity department in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district say they have been wearing helmets to work because their office building is "dilapidated".

In a tit-for-tat incident of sorts, a lineman of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department cut the power supply of a police station in Firozabad, after he was fined for riding a two-wheeler without wearing a helmet, officials said on Thursday.

An Uttar Pradesh man was charged an exorbitant electricity bill of more than Rs 128 crore.

Two employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department were electrocuted to death on Sunday in a village in Agra when they were trying to fix high tension wires, police said.

Residents of Ghaziabad are facing a week of irregular power supply with electricity department officials saying that they would need seven days to repair the damage caused to transmission lines in Friday's thunderstorm.

A blame game has erupted among states over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 600 million people - over half of the country's population. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has reportedly summoned officials of five states, which drew more power than what had been allocated, leaving 19 states in the dark. The r...

In a bid to address power crisis in Uttar Pradesh, the timings of opening and closing of malls, shops and restaurants have been revised by the Labour Department, an official spokesman said in Lucknow.