Apart from facing the brunt of scheduled power cuts, residents from several localities faced another phase of power cut due to the maintenance works for ensuring round-the-clock power supply to the consumers on Tuesday. Department officials claimed that carrying out maintenance and rectifying the technical snags after facing the inclement weather is the regular feature in the department for supplying disruption-free electricity to the consumers.
Several areas of the capital city witnessed power cuts after facing the inclement weather as the testing of lines and rectifying technical snags were also carried out on Tuesday in order to ensure disruption-free electricity to consumers. Officials said tightening of loose connections is one of the processes for ensuring the correct voltage supply. The department carried out preventive maintenance works on 11 KV FRI feeder resulting residents faced the brunt of nearly five hour of power outage was witnessed in FRI, Banjarawala, Masandwala, Vilaspur, Kandi, Chunna Bhatta, Prempur Mafi and adjoining areas on Tuesday. Meanwhile, residents too faced the power cut for nearly two hours as the department rectified the technical snags on 33 KV line connected through 132 KV Majjra and Purkul feeder. It is also noteworthy that the power outage would be followed duty to the maintenance work lined up on 11 KV Vijay Park feeder on Wednesday besides, maintenance work would be also done on Friday. Although testing of lines continued till evening in some areas, power supply was resumed in most of the areas except few colonies where work continued till late evening.
One of the department sources told The Pioneer that the inclement weather has always affected the transmission lines and transformers and removing technical snags is the only solution for ensuring the round-the-clock power supply.