Ballia: UPPCL Employee Cuts Power Supply For Hours While Drunk, Now Faces Job Termination

An UPPCL employee, responsible for the power supply at a substation in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, reportedly disrupted the power supply of a village in an inebriated condition on Saturday night. The power outage that took place at Takarson power substation led to  widespread outrage among villagers after it was revealed that a drunken Sub-Station Operator (SSO) caused the disruption.     

The SSO, identified as Kaushal Singh, reportedly stopped the power supply and fell asleep on the ground while on duty. Villagers, frustrated by the prolonged blackout, rushed to the substation and found Singh in a heavily intoxicated state. 

Villagers who attempted to wake him were met with verbal abuse and physical aggression. The entire incident was recorded by the villagers and a video of the altercation between the UPPCL employee and villagers went viral on social media.

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Executive Engineer Narendra Prakash confirmed that an investigation is underway and steps are being taken to terminate the accused SSO as he was responsible for managing the power supply that night but failed to manage his duties, resulting in the outage and subsequent anger among the villagers. 

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The UPPCL official stated that the video evidence has been sent to higher authorities and the power distribution department will take further action after the investigation is completed.