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Unabated power cuts making life hellish
UTTAR PRADESH Power Corporation appears to be tripping over its promise to minimise power cuts in the city. A few days back it had claimed that come the rainy season the demand for electricity would decrease and then it would be easy for them to regularise supply. That promise has been turned on its head specially with trippings elongating the cessation of electricity supply to more than six hours a day.
UTTAR PRADESH Power Corporation appears to be tripping over its promise to minimise power cuts in the city. A few days back it had claimed that come the rainy season the demand for electricity would decrease and then it would be easy for them to regularise supply.
That promise has been turned on its head specially with trippings elongating the cessation of electricity supply to more than six hours a day.
A few days ago the UPPCL Deputy GM Shakti Singh had claimed that since his posting here the power cuts have come down. That may be so but the ground reality is quite different. Whether it is the Mayo Hall division or Rambagh the local faults have increased the misery of the people.
Sources in the UPPCL say that the trippings are the result of breakage of wires which in most areas are worn out and need immediate replacement. Also the maintenance at the nodal Minto Park sub-station has not been done properly and hence the constant breakdowns.
One of the worst affected is Mayo Hall division where faults on the main line from Minto Park lead to regular trippings. Sources in the department say that the vulnerable points are Bairahna and the CMP Degree College crossing where on Thursday the 33KV line had snapped leading to stoppage of electricity for more than four hours. But then even when the fault was repaired and the wire stretched the electricity went off again.
For which the power officials had no explanation except saying with a sheepish smile that "no one can be sure about electricity supply".
However, there is a silver lining to the problem. According to the Power Corporation sources all the sub-stations in the city are going to be inter-linked and if there is a fault in one line the electricity could be taken from another line and distributed in the affected locality. This would ease the problems of the consumers and put them at ease. But till that happens and power continues to play truant, all the claims have to be taken with large doses of salt.
Since the past week there has been hardly any locality that has not been facing power pangs. Whether it is Sulem Sarai, Dhoomanganj, Ashok Nagar, Chowk, Kalyani Devi and adjoining areas or those getting electricity from Mayo Hall or Tagore Town the local faults and trippings have been rampaging through the claims of the power officials to give normal supply to the city.
