long power outages continued to haunt residents of the national Capital for the 14th consecutive day even as Delhi Government announced that it will take at least 10 more days to restore the transmission network damaged by last month’s storm. Customers of BSES discoms were the worst affected lot as their areas faced maximum power cuts. There was no power in some areas of East Delhi for over
seven hours while localities in South and West Delhi also reeled under four to five hours of outages.
Delhi’s Additional Power Secretary Ankur Garg said it will take at least 10 days to restore the transmission network and normalise the supply. Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday night visited Maharani Bagh area to take stock of progress of repair work of the Maharani Bagh-Ghazipur 220 KV line.
A number of top officials of Power Ministry and Delhi’’s Power Department accompanied him.
The localities where Tata Power Delhi Distribution Network supplies power are not experiencing power cuts more than an hour. The officials said the situation on Thursday was much better as power demand came down marginally due to drop in temperature following light rains on Thursday afternoon. The maximum load came down to 4,561 MW at 4 pm compared to 5,327 MW
on Wednesday.