Several areas of the capital city witnessed power cut due to the maintenance works lined up in the State power department on Monday. However, department officials claimed that the department is restored to minimum power cut in order to avoid inconvenience to the residents.
All those residents who are living near Kargi, Banjarawala, Azad Vihar, Shivalik enclave faced the brunt of power cut for nearly four to five hours on Monday due to ongoing work of sewage treatment plan in the region. Among those feeders where the supply of power was reported to be disrupted includes 33/11 KV sub station Kargi and 11 KV Banjarawala feeder. Similarly, the power supply was affected at Mussoorie as the tightening of lose connections and rectifying the lines took place on 33/ 11 KV Kyarkuli feeder and 11 KV Kringkrang feeders.
The power supply was reported to be affected for nearly six hours on Monday except those areas where testing of lines continued till late in the evening. It is also equally important to mention here is that the power supply was reported to be badly affected on Sunday for nearly six hours due to the maintenance works lined up at 11 KV Mohebbewala industrial feeder, 11KV Transport Nagar feeder, 11KV Kailashpur feeder and 11KV Subhash Nagar feeder.
0ne of the department sources who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that the department has been continuously repairing the lines in order to ensure the disruption free electricity to the consumers. After claiming that strict instructions are regularly given to the officials to complete all the pending works in the given time frame in order to avoid inconvenience to the residents, he said that the problem of low voltage in the affected areas would be easily overcome once the repairing works completes in the near future.