Irked over power going out for the past six days in over 100 villages of Tyuni Tehsil, hundreds of local residents have forcibly shut down the Tyuni Bazaar on Friday. The protesters hit the roads and gheraoed the electricity office while shouting slogans against the Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited for the power outages happening in over 100 villages in Tyuni Tehsil. Following the agitation, works at Tehsil and Electricity departments were disrupted.
The protesters having blocked the roads, the police administration deployed police forces to maintain peace during the protests. Senior administration officers reached the protest site and facilitated a meeting between the agitators and the electricity officials who assured that their grievances would be redressed. Moreover, taking note of the protest, UPCl managing director BCK Mishra has directed the executive engineer and other engineers concerned to reach the villages concerned and look into the matter.