Several colonies of the Capital city will witness power outage from Saturday onwards for another five day due to the maintenance work lined up by the State power department.
Some of the colonies will bear the power cut for nearly seven hours in a day whereas some colonies will be without electricity for nearly two hours in another five days. However, department officials claimed that the maintenance work is necessary to maintain disrupted free electricity to the consumers.
As per the information available, Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) has lined up to carry maintenance work at Turner road, Niranjanpur and Vasant Vihar sub-stations. As per the roster issued by the department, the power outage will be witnessed at Bhudgaon, Harbanswala, Indira Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Ghisarpadi, Jalagam colony and adjoining colonies and Engineering Enclave, Keshav Vihar, Bhagirathi Puram, Vyomprasth, Kanwali, GMS road, Dutta Enclave, Priyadarshani, Sailok, Maya Enclave, Himlok Colony, Garhwali Colony and adjoining areas due to the maintenance work lined up at 33 KV Vasant Vihar feeder and 11 KV Engineers Enclave feeder respectively on Saturday. All the residents who are living at Mohhebewala, Industrial area, Kailashpur, Transport Nagar, Triveni Nagar, Shanti Vihar and adjoining vicinities would also face the brunt of power cut on Sunday as the maintenance work is also lined up at 11 KV Mohhebewala feeder.
Among all the colonies, Engineering Enclave, Keshav Vihar, Bhagirathi Puram, Vyomprasth, Kanwali, GMS road, Dutta Enclave, Priyadarshani, Sailok, Maya Enclave, Himlok Colony, Garhwali Colony and adjoining areas' residents will face the power outage from 10 am to 5 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday due to the proposed maintenance work lined up at 11 KV Engineering Enclave feeder. Several colonies faced the power outage on Friday also. One of the department sources from the UPCl who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that tightening of electricity lines and replacing of jumpers will be done during the shut down.
Those who living in the fringe areas would among the major sufferers as power cut may stress for longer duration. According to him, instructions were already released to linemen to overcome the technical snags. However, department officials told that maintenance works are necessary to supply round the clock power supply to the residents and loose connections were also tightened in order to supply round the clock power and to overcome the problem of low voltage in the colonies of the capital city.
He hoped that all lined up work would be completed in the given timeframe in order to avoid inconvenience to the residents.