Jamshedpur : Concerned over erratic power supply a section of residents of Old Purulia Road today barged into a local power sub-station and damaged the equipment.
Officials of Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam Limited who were present at the sub-station later consoled the agitating residents and assured that they would take up the matter with the higher-up and ensure that the local areas gets steady power supply.
Several residents of the different locality of Mango visited the electricity office and shouted slogans against the officials in an attempt to draw their attention to the plight of the commoners in the wake of no power supply for the last two and half days.
However, with no positive response coming from the electricity department the agitating lot lost its cool and rampaged into the office. They aggrieved locals were attempting to damage the office property when the local police intervened timely.
Even though, the police managed to prevent the angry people from damaging the public property but the latter were infuriated over the indifferent attitude of the personnel.