Several areas of the capital city will continue to face the power outage by the end of this month due to the ongoing repair and maintenance lined up by the State power department. Department officials claimed that the maintenance works have been planned for ensuring the round the clock electricity supply to the consumers in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand.
Additionally, the department has been continuously procuring electricity from the private electricity generators in order to curtail the gap between demand and supply of electricity in the State.
All those residents who live in Nimbuwala, Tapkeshwar colony, IMA campus, Garhi, Sharam Vihar, Vasant Vihar, Vijay Park Extension, Canal road, FRI, Bajawala, Masandawala, Vilaspur, Kandoli and adjoining areas faced the brunt of power cut for nearly five hours, last day and will continue to face the power outage due to maintenance works lined up by the State power department.
Due to the maintenance works that was carried out at 11 KV Kaulagarh feeder, Teacher colony Chakrata road, Ballupur road, ONGC, FRI, Vilaspur, Ram Vihar and adjoining areas faced the power cut on Friday.
Department sources told that the maintenance works are lined up at 11 KV Dhera feeder and Ballupur chowk, Vijay Park extension Canal road, Kamla Nagar, Ram Vihar, Rajeev Colony, Mitra lok, Shrirampuram, Chakrata road, Mahendra Vihar, Shivalikpuram, GMS road and adjoining areas will face the power cut on Saturday.
The maintenance works would be also carried out in the coming week at 33 KV Kaulagarh line and 11 KV Ashirwad feeder and all those localities that receive electricity will face the power outage. One of the department sources who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that maintenance works were completed by the department and no stone would be left unturned for providing disrupted free electricity supply to the consumers.
He further told that two private companies are already concurred with the department for selling electricity to the department during its lean times especially during winter.
“Power cut has been observed due to ongoing renovation and maintenance works lined up at different feeders and sub station in the different localities of the capital city for ensuring the disruption free electricity supply to the consumers in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand,” he said, adding that the gap between demand and supply of electricity further increases due to the non functioning of turbines in the higher parts of the State.