Irate consumers set a NESCO bureau afire

Around 800 raging host of both villages blocked a Chandipur highway and pelted with stones during a electicity bureau midnight final night.

The asbestos roof of a bureau was damaged and a files and papers were gutted in a glow before a glow brigade crew managed to lard a fire.

However, a host spared a transformer tighten to a territory office.

Though low voltage was a unchanging problem, no step was taken by a energy application to set it right notwithstanding several complaints, a consumers said.

Loadshedding from 1600 hrs and after a disappearance of a NESCO officials from a bureau annoyed a host final night.

Initially yet a NESCO officials positive a consumers that a energy would be easy soon. But after some hours a consumers found a bureau sealed and mobile phone of a officials switched off.

Angered over a opinion of a officials, a consumers shortly collected during a Chandipur highway nearby Sunahat block and started pelting with stones during a office.

There after a ransacked a bureau and set it on fire.

The host diluted usually after a military arrived.

NESCO operative S C Pradhan pronounced a energy supply was disrupted as an electric stick fell nearby a grid hire during Januganj nearby Remuna.

Efforts were on to revive energy supply though a host resorted to violence.

Mr Pradhan pronounced they would shortly board an FIR with a military hire after energy was restored.