Following technical snags reported at Parade Ground based 10 MVA transformer, several areas faced the brunt of power outage on Sunday in the capital city.
However, department officials claimed that instructions have been passed to the technical staff to replace the transformer with a new one in order to avoid inconvenience to the consumers and the power supply is resumed in the affected areas within hours.
Department officials told that all those colonies that receive electricity supply from the Parade Ground based transformer faced the power cut but technical staff managed to restore electricity to the affected areas through alternate measures.
Officials said that the new transformer would be installed at earliest in order to avoid inconvenience to the consumers. Departmental sources revealed that the several areas including EC Road, Rajpur Road, Kalidas Marg, Paltan Bazaar, Tehsil, Chukhu Mohalla and adjoining areas may face the power cut in case the load increases in a day or so.
After conforming the technical snag, Madhusudan, an official spokesman of the Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited said that stern instructions have been already released to the technical staff for installing new transformers in order to avoid inconvenience to the consumers.
He said that the technical staff will leave no stone unturned to replace the transformer with new transformer for ensuring disruption free electricity to the consumers.
He said that the department has been procuring the electricity on regular intervals in order to meet with the daily requirement of the State.
He also added that no part of the State will be under the power outage without having any valid reasons and that maintenance work is the regular feature in the department in order to supply round the clock electricity having correct voltage to the consumers.