Essential Services Maintenance Act News

Blackout in Chandigarh due to strike by electricity department workers Many areas of the city are without electricity and water The administration has accused the striking workers of "acts of sabotage"

Protestors are demanding the implementation of the old pension scheme.

Cracking the whip, the Delhi government on Friday invoked the stringent ESMA declaring as illegal the nurses' stir which has severely affected the functioning of state-run hospitals at a time when the city was grappling with rising cases of dengue and chikungunya.