Power disruption in UP assembly: Three engineers suspended, 1 fired

LUCKNOW: Three officers of Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) were suspended and one contractual staff of transmission substation Martinpurwa (132 kV) was sacked after power supply of UP Vidhan Sabha was disrupted when the session was in progress on Monday afternoon.
According to official sources, after the state power minister Arvind Kumar Sharma called an emergency meeting and discussed the incident with chief transmission (central zone), superintendent engineer, transmission, and distribution executive engineer of Raj Bhawan, the action was taken for the lapse that 'tarnished the image of the department'.
The suspended officers were executive engineer transmission (EET) Sanjay Kumar Paswan, sub-division officer (SDO) Pushpesh Giri and JE Amraj of Martinpurwa. The three were replaced by EET Pravin Kumar, SDO Pramod Kumar Mishra and JE Guru Swaroop Shrivastav.
On the direction of the UP Power Transmission Corporation Limited MD, the contractual staff of Martinpurwa substation Deepak Sharma was terminated from his job. Speaking to TOI, LESA CIS chief executive engineer Vipin Jain said, "The power supply of Vidhan Sabha was restored within a minute."
A senior official of UPPCL said, "Power supply of Vidhan Sabha was disrupted after a hoarding got stuck with low tension wire (440v) near Ambedkar University substation due to strong winds, which made the power supply of Martinpurwa substation trip." "At the time of disruption, Governor Anandiben Patel was addressing the joint session," he added. Power engineers' association of UP has condemned the suspension of three officers and termination of substation officer, Martinpurwa. "We will lodge protest against the action. The power supply of affected areas was restored within 10-12 minutes," read the statement.