The tall claims made by the State power department that no part of the State would be under power outage proved wrong as several areas of the capital city continue to face the power outage.
Additionally, all those villagers who are living in the remote areas are among the worst sufferer due to prolonged power cuts. The roster prepared by the State power department clearly highlighted that the four hours of compulsory power outage was followed in rural areas of Haridwar and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand.
Additionally, small towns of the State which include Doiwala, Vikasnagar, Kotdwar, Roorkee, Jawalapur, Kashipur, Rudrapur, Haldwani and Sitarganj, Pithoragarh, Ranikhet, Almora faced the power outage of two hours whereas hilly areas of the State faced the power of nearly 1.5 hours per day. Department officials told that the department will procure 8.4 million units of electricity on Sunday for ensuring the disruption free electricity to the consumers.
It is also noteworthy that the power generation through State run hydro power projects is hovering around 10 million units against the demand of electricity which hovers around 34 million units of electricity whereas the availability of the electricity is around 30-31 million units thus causing deficit of nearly three to four million units of electricity in the State.
One of the department who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that the department has been continuously procuring electricity in order to meet with the demand of electricity in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. After expressing his concern over the decreasing rate of power generation through State run hydro power projects in the State, he said that instructions have been already passed to the officials to maintain minimum power outage in order to avoid inconvenience to the residents across the State.
He claimed that tripping of lines has started becoming perennial problem in the plains of the State due to the intense fog and instructions are already issued to overcome the technical snags for ensuring the disruption free electricity to the consumers.