A strike by Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam workers left Gurugram, Faridabad, and Nuh districts without power starting Wednesday night, impacting thousands of consumers.
The power department received over 3,000 outage complaints within 12 hours as industrial operations and local water supplies were severely disrupted.
Employees protested the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission's decision to grant a parallel electricity distribution licence to a private company.