Due to the maintenance works lined up by the State power department, several areas of the capital city witnessed power cut for nearly three hours on Friday.
However, the power supply was resumed to the most of the areas except few localities where testing of lines continued till late in the evening. Department officials told that the maintenance of lines and transformers is a regular feature in the department for ensuring the round the clock power the consumers.
The maintenance works were done at 11 KV Dilaram feeder and Ameti feeder from 11 am to 3pm on Friday thus caused the power outage for nearly three to four hours to those adjacent colonies, that receive the power supply from this two feeders.
It is also equally important to mention here is that the four hour power outage would be followed due to the maintenance works at 11 KV Hathi-Bar-Kala feeder, Barighat feeder and Doon Vihar feeder on Saturday. Among the localities that will face the power cut on Saturday includes Survey, Hathi-Bar-Kala, Doon Vihar, Rajpur road, Jakhan and adjoining areas. Besides, the emergency power cut was also implemented in the Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts of State.
The cut was implemented for one to two hours and villages and fringe areas of the State faced the power cut for maximum hours. One of the department officials who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that instructions have been released to the staff to complete all maintenance works in the scheduled given time frame in order to avoid inconvenience to the consumers.
After claiming that the maintenance works are regular feature in the department for ensuring the disruption free electricity to the consumers, he expressed concern over the inclement weather that has been proving hindrance for repairing and maintenance work across the capital city.
He told that repairing of lines would be continued till the monsoon ends as the circuit automatically cuts in rough weather breaks thus caused power outage in the affected areas.
He told that faults are normally occurred at lines, transformers or at sub station level due to the stormy weather conditions in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of the State.
“The tripping of lines due to the inclement weather is a regular feature in order to avoid any damage to the electrical equipments,” he said, adding that stern instructions have been released to the technical staff on the regular intervals for providing the round the clock power to the consumers except during the scheduled maintenance work, which is regular feature in the department.