Hazaribagh, Nov. 25: About 6,000 people of the Indo-Asahi Glass factory residential colony will have no electricity and water supply from tomorrow.

A notice issued by the executive engineer of electricity department to the subdivisonal officer of Ramgarh electricity supply department said power supply to the colony will be stopped.

The glass factory closed down last month after a communiqu? from Calcutta. The owner R.L. Khemka had suffered heavy losses and it had become difficult for him to run the factory. The department had stopped electricity supply to the company a few days ago.

The department failed to disconnect the electricity supply in the colony because of the intervention of officer in-charge of Bhadani Nagar police station and protests by residents.

The locality does not have a single hand pump and the residents are apprehending tough times ahead.

Parliamentarian Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Mehta blamed chief minister Arjun Munda for the power problem. He threatened to sit on an indefinite hunger strike outside Parliament demanding the opening of the company.

Local legislator Loknath Mahto said he has been making attempts to stop the electricity department from disconnecting power supply.

He said he will talk to Munda over the problems. Birendra Sinha, a resident of the colony, said the factory?s closure had made it difficult for them to make both ends meet. The problem will aggravate with the disconnecting of power.

Another resident Ahsaan Ansari also echoed Sinha. ?How will water be supplied from tomorrow?? he asked.

?The government should take some steps for the company?s opening. Then only can we have a secured future for our families,? he said.