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The Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd. has suspended an adjunct technologist and an electrician for alleged negligence, and issued a charge-sheet to different serviceman days aft a powerfulness outage disrupted Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's property league astatine the BJP bureau successful Jaipur.
The enactment followed an enquiry into the Thursday (June 11, 2026) incident, erstwhile a powerfulness nonaccomplishment astatine the authorities BJP office interrupted Mr. Vaishnaw's media interaction.
The Minister had to code reporters successful the acheronian for astir 10 minutes aft energy proviso was disrupted thrice.
The powerfulness section and the State authorities faced disapproval implicit the outage, caused by tripping astatine the 400 KV grid sub-station successful Heerapura.
Taking superior enactment of the incident, Energy Minister Hiralal Nagar had appointed a three-member committee to analyse the substance and taxable a report.
Based connected the findings, the Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd (RVPNL) has present suspended adjunct technologist Vipin Verma and electrician Babu Singh, some posted astatine the Heerapura sub-station, with contiguous effect, officials said.
The powerfulness inferior besides issued a charge-sheet to superintending technologist R.P. Gupta, seeking his mentation of the incident.
“The disciplinary enactment was taken aft the enquiry study recovered lapses successful the handling of the powerfulness infrastructure that led to the disruption,” an authoritative said.
