Chennai Power Cut June 28: Chennai residents in parts of Tambaram, Porur and Pallavaram will face a temporary power outage on Saturday due to scheduled maintenance work by the electricity department. Officials said power supply will be restored before 2 PM if the work finishes early.

In Tambaram, areas such as Selaiyur Karpagam Nagar, Ranganathan Nagar, Devaraj Nagar, Kamatchi Nagar, Balaji Nagar, Bharath Nagar, MGR Nagar, Saratha Garden, Bharat Medical College, and parts of Agaram Main Road will be affected.

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In Porur, Kundrathur Temple Wave, Kumaran Nagar, PKV Maha Nagar, and R P Dharmalingam Nagar will experience outages.

In Pallavaram, power will be suspended in SBI Colony, parts of Purusothaman Nagar, Gajalakshmi Nagar, Gajapathy Nagar, NSR Road, Kamala Street, MGR Street, Pachappa Nagar and Kumaran Kundram area.

In separate news, over 250 nurses from across Tamil Nadu gathered in Chennai on Thursday, demanding regularisation of their jobs and equal pay. Organised by the Tamil Nadu Nurses Empowerment Association, the protest called on the DMK government to fulfil its poll promise of regularising all nurses on consolidated pay. Of 15,000 nurses hired through the MRB, only around 8,000 have been regularised.

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Currently, nurses on consolidated pay earn Rs 18,000, while regular nurses receive about Rs 60,000. The association urged the State to implement court orders on equal pay and maternity benefits. Other demands included creating permanent posts based on patient numbers, reinstating COVID-duty nurses, and fixing salaries for service milestones at 7, 14, 20 and 25 years.

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