Amid scorching heat, the Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) is struggling hard to cope up with the burgeoning power demand in the State. As per data available, the UPCl managed to receive 37.91 MU power including 16.49 MU got from the hydro power station based in Uttarakhand against the demand of 39.46 MU. This was disclosed by the UPCl spokesperson Madhusudan by in a press release issued on Saturday.
UPCl data centre which had gone out of order due to technical reason resumed work by 1.25 pm on Saturday. On Friday Upakali officials, IBM and INfinte companies’ officials worked on war footing level to rectify the problem of data centre. Due to dis-connectivity consumers, who were registering their complaint on helpline, could not contact and after Saturday afternoon the service resumed and even consumers were unable to pay their bill online.
After resumption of data centre 300 person paid their electricity bill through online to Upakali centre and 12 person paid their bill through common service centre situation in rural areas. On Friday UJVNl Kalagarh could not generate electricity and State received 17.73 MU from the Central pool. In view of scorching heat there were standing instructions to withdraw less to avoid unnecessary load so the UPCl had to make mandatory power cut for two hours in Haridwar and Udhamsinghnagar till 4.30 pm. In the cities of Garhwal division UPCl made half an hour power cut in different parts on different time schedule. Besides it, no power cut was made by the UPCl.