J&K admin seeks Army's help to restore electricity in Jammu as strike leads to outages

The administration has sought help from Army to restore electricity after employees went on strike over the proposal to privatise the department.

The Divisional Commissioner of Jammu has sought help from the Indian Army to restore electricity in the division.

Many districts of J&K plunge into darkness after power department engineers went on strike yesterday over the government's plan to privatise the power sector. The J&K administration this evening held talks with the representatives of engineers who went on strike.