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Power Cut is a 2012 Indian Punjabi romantic comedy film. It was the last film directed by Jaspal Bhatti and produced by Paveljeet Singh under P & R Films and Mad Arts, Jaspal Bhatti Film School.[1][2] The lead actors include Jaspal Bhatti himself, his wife Savita Bhatti and several well-known Punjabi actors.[3] The film was released on 26 October 2012 worldwide. The movie mocks the power outages and corruption in India, especially in the state of Punjab.
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.[8] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. It was forged on the foundations of the Khalsa from a collection of autonomous misls.[1][9] At its peak in the 19th century, the empire extended from Gilgit and Tibet in the north to the deserts of Sindh in the south and from the Khyber Pass in the west to the Sutlej in the east as far as Oudh.[10][11] It was divided into four provinces: Lahore, which became the Sikh capital; Multan; Peshawar; and Kashmir from 1799 to 1849. Religiously diverse, with an estimated population of 4.5 million in 1831 (making it the 19th most populous country at the time),[12] it was the last major region of the Indian subcontinent to be annexed by the British Empire.
The formation of the empire began with the capture of Lahore from its Durrani ruler, Zaman Shah Durrani. Ranjit Singh was proclaimed as Maharaja of the Punjab on 12 April 1801 (to coincide with Vaisakhi), creating a unified political state. Sahib Singh Bedi, a descendant of Guru Nanak, conducted the coronation.[13] The formation of the empire was followed by the progressive expulsion of Afghans from Punjab by capitalizing off Afghan decline in the Afghan-Sikh Wars, and the unification of the separate Sikh misls. Ranjit Singh rose to power in a very short period, from a leader of a single misl to finally becoming the Maharaja of Punjab. He began to modernise his army, using the latest training as well as weapons and artillery. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the empire was weakened by the British East India Company stoking internal divisions and political mismanagement. Finally, in 1849, the state was dissolved after the defeat in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
The next guru, Guru Har Rai, maintained the guruship in these hills by defeating local attempts to seize Sikh land and playing a neutral role in the power struggle between two of the sons of Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh, for control of the Mughal Empire. The ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, moved the Sikh community to Anandpur and travelled extensively to visit and preach in defiance of Aurangzeb, who attempted to install Ram Rai as new guru. Guru Tegh Bahadur aided Kashmiri Pandits in avoiding conversion to Islam and was arrested by Aurangzeb. When offered a choice between conversion to Islam and death, he chose to die rather than compromise his principles and was executed.[18]
Guru Gobind Singh assumed the guruship in 1675 and to avoid battles with Sivalik Hill rajas moved the guruship to Paunta. There he built a large fort to protect the city and garrisoned an army to protect it. The growing power of the Sikh community alarmed the Sivalik Hill rajas, who attempted to attack the city, but Guru Gobind Singh's forces routed them at the Battle of Bhangani. He moved on to Anandpur and established the Khalsa, a collective army of baptised Sikhs, on 30 March 1699.[19]
The period from 1716 to 1799 was a highly turbulent time politically and militarily in the Punjab region. This was caused by the overall decline of the Mughal empire[25] that left a power vacuum in the region that was eventually filled by the Sikhs of the Dal Khalsa, meaning "Khalsa army" or "Khalsa party". In the late 18th century, after defeating several invasions by the Afghan rulers of the Durrani Empire and their allies,[26] remnants of the Mughals and their administrators, the Mughal-allied Hindu hill-rajas of the Sivalik Hills,[27][28] and hostile local Muslims siding with other Muslim forces.[26] The Sikhs of the Dal Khalsa eventually formed their own independent Sikh administrative regions, Misls, derived from a Perso-Arabic term meaning 'similar', headed by Misldars. These Misls were united in large part by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
The Phulkian Misl was excommunicated from the confederacy. Rani Sada Kaur of the Kanhaiya Misl rose in the vacuum and destroyed the power of the Bhangis. She later gave her throne to Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
One of Ranjit Singh's first acts after the 1799 capture of Lahore was to revive the offices of the hereditary Qazis and Muftis which had been prevalent in Mughal times.[86] Kazi Nizamuddin was appointed to decide marital issues among Muslims, while Muftis Mohammad Shahpuri and Sadulla Chishti were entrusted with powers to draw up title-deeds relating to transfers of immovable property.[86] The old mohalladari[definition needed] system was reintroduced with each mahallah, or neighborhood subdivision, placed under the charge of one of its members. The office of Kotwal, or prefect of police, was conferred upon a Muslim, Imam Bakhsh.[86]
The Sikhs attempted not to offend the prejudices of Muslims, noted Baron von Hügel, the Austrian botanist and explorer,[95] yet the Sikhs were described as harsh. In this regard, Masson's explanation is perhaps the most pertinent: "Though compared to the Afghans, the Sikhs were mild and exerted a protecting influence, yet no advantages could compensate to their Mohammedan subjects, the idea of subjection to infidels, and the prohibition to slay kine, and to repeat the azan, or 'summons to prayer'."[96] According to Chitralekha Zutshi and William Roe Polk, Sikh governors adopted policies that alienated the Muslim population such as the ban on cow slaughter and the azan (the Islamic call to prayer), the seizure of mosques as property of the state, and imposed ruinous taxes on Kashmiri Muslims causing a famine in 1832. In addition, begar (forced labour) was imposed by the Sikh administration to facilitate the supply of materials to the imperial army, a policy that was augmented by the successive Dogra rulers.[97][98][99] These policies led the Kashmiri Muslim population to emirgate en masse to more lenient neighboring countries, particularly Ladakh.[100] As a symbolic assertion of power, the Sikhs regularly desecrated Muslim places of worship, including closing of the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and the conversion of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore to an ammunition store and horse stable, but the empire still maintained Persian administrative institutions and court etiquette; the Sikh silver rupees were minted on the Mughal standard with Persian legends.[101][102]
Besides assembling a piercing alternative portrait of a place that, in Hindi cinema, is often lost in a mist of cliches, Kohrra proves that conventional star power is a dispensable commodity when the script is allowed to take precedence over everything else.
The AAP government rolled out its biggest promise of 300 units of free power from July 1, 2022, onwards. A large number of citizens paid nothing towards electricity after the scheme was launched. However, it also meant the state would a burden of Rs 1,800 annuallly. This is significantly a lot given that the state has a whopping debt of around Rs 3 lakh crore. The power subsidy bill alone is set to cross Rs 20,000 crore mark this fiscal year, in addition to Rs 7,117 crore due from the previous fiscal.
The AAP government would also incur an expenditure of Rs 6,947 crore on free farm power and Rs 2,503 for the subsidy to industry. Experts from the power industry say that the government would end up paying Rs 3,000 crore, as there are several existing categories which also get 300 free units, due to the welfare measure brought in by former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Excessive political advertisement and marketing in other states by using Punjab resources, decisions more cosmetic or symbolic in nature than welfare-oriented, frequent and active participation of Delhi bosses in Punjab governance events, and dramatic and hyped-up ways to launch the new initiatives, all have contributed to reflecting a stronger power centre vis-à-vis Mann and his cabinet.
Kaypee: Roll back power tariff hike
Chandigarh, April 24
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Mohinder Singh Kaypee today demanded roll back in power tariff hike, which, he said, would put additional burden on the people who were already reeling under the impact of the taxes recently levied by the state government on the recommendation of the Sukhbir-Kalia committee before the Budget session of the Assembly.
Ludhiana, April 24
The power supply position in the state is expected to improve from May 1 as Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has purchased 300 MW of power from Himachal Pradesh.This contracted power will be available from May 1. Moreover, one 250 MW unit of Lehra Mohabbat, which has been out of generation, will also go on stream from May 1, according to official sources of the corporation. This unit has some problem with its bearing which has been procured from Haryana. One unit of 200 MW of Ropar thermal plant, which had some fault, will also start generation tomorrow.At present, the daily power consumption in the state is 1,215 lakh units while the availability is 904 lakh units. With the availability of power from Himachal Pradesh, the gap will be met. Besides, the power supply of four hours to tube wells for cotton sowing will also be available for general consumption, the sources said.Meanwhile, the inflow of water in the Bhakra and Pong reservoirs has started increasing with the rise in temperatures notwithstanding the fact that the water level in the two reservoirs continue to be low compared with the level of the previous year.