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Maintain Supply from 6pm to 10pm: Akhilesh to Power Firms

  • In order to help students appearing in board examinations, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today directed power companies to supply uninterrupted electricity between 6pm to 10pm across the state.Ensuring power supply. PTI“To ensure that students, appearing for high school and intermediate examinations conducted by the Secondary Education Board, prepare well, the Chief Minister has directed that the arrangement should be implemented from tomorrow,” an official spokesman said in Lucknow.

  • The decision has been taken so that students in rural areas could prepare well for their examinations, Akhilesh had said.He said that the government would provide a special financial assistance of Rs 150 crore to Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation.The chief minister said that except areas where there are local distribution and transmission problem, the system would be implemented from Thursday and would continue till 20 April.

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