Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 03:
THE MANIPUR Electric ity Department was on Friday closed in protest against the demands and threat to the office, the engineers and staffs of the department and their' families by some elements.
A sit-in-protest was also held at the department amidst tight security.
Recalling the various incidents of threats and attacks on the department and even families of the staffs and the.
engineers, the department condemned the act terming it - an inhuman act of unknown miscreants attacking the lives of innocent people.
The department also recounted such various unfortunate incidents since July/2008 to the present.
The officials and the staffs' of the department also held that such harassments and threats were a disturbance in the proper funptioning of the department thus hampering the service to the people of the state.
And in order that the department serve the people of the state in peace without any disturbance the department appealed to all the concerns to make the department a Free zone.