In order to improve the power supply condition in the entire region and check the power theft cases, Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PUVVNL) has been replacing open/ dilapidated low tension (LT) lines with aerial bunched (AB) cables under the Revamped Scheme. The PUVVNL issued a release on Friday informing that the work of replacing 1,100 open LT line wires of transformers with AB cables has been completed so far.
The replacement of these LT lines with AB cables will ensure quality power supply to about 1,99,823 houses. Besides, work is in progress to replace LT lines of 5,373 transformers. Giving the district-wise progress, the PUVVNL informed that as many as 63 numbers of open LT lines have already been replaced with AB cables in Varanasi while 68 in Chandauli, 52 in Jaunpur, 109 in Azamgarh, 40 in Mau, 56 in Ballia, 57 in Gorakhpur, 57 in Deoria, 13 in Kushinagar, 16 in Maharajganj, 15 in Mirzapur, one in Sonbhadra, six in Bhadohi, 28 in Fatehpur, 20 in Kaushambi, 115 in Pratapgarh and 384 in Prayagraj so far.
Besides, the PUVVNL informed that the work of replacing dilapidated wires of 11 KV feeders and replacement of overloaded feeders with higher capacity wires is being done.
The replacement of wires on 251 feeders is also in progress and replacement of 26 wires of the feeders has been completed, which will benefit about 12,550 houses. By changing the wires of 11 KV feeders, the shutdown incidents for the maintenance of faults will be reduced drastically, due to which quality power supply will be ensured to the consumers. In Prayagraj, the work of replacing dilapidated wires of 18, two in Jaunpur, two in Chandauli, one in Kushinagar and three in Fatehpur has been completed. The release also informed that under the PUVVNL construction of 11 KV independent agricultural feeders is being done for agricultural consumers. The work of construction of 56 11 KV agricultural feeders is in progress and out of them, the work on one independent 11 KV agricultural feeder in Prayagraj, one in Fatehpur and two in Kaushambi has been completed. With the construction of independent agricultural feeders, uninterrupted power supply will be made available to agricultural consumers as per the schedule.