Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 17 2009:
A POWER sub-station in Chandel district closed down owing the monetary demand of Rs 50, 000 served by the NSCN(IM) to the employees of the sub-station and started harassing the employees for not paying the money since the last eight days.
Since then the supply of the power supply of the 33 KV sub-station at Chayang village suspended and closed down.
Cadres of the outfit maintaining cease fire pact with the GOI came openly and repeatedly harassed the employees for not meeting their demand, sources said.
The closed down sub-station is supplying power to around 20 villages in and around the village including some villages in the adjoining village at the valley areas.
After the employee left the sub-station, people are facing total black out.
Another source said that after the cadres of the outfit collected equipments use in the power supply for not paying the money they demanded, the employees left the office.