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Unscheduled power cuts continue

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI JUNE 8. Residents of the Capital continued to experience unscheduled power cuts for several hours today, even though there was a decline in peak demand and the maximum load-shedding dropped almost by half.

However, today being a Sunday when most offices and major commercial establishments are closed, power cuts were not as severe as had been during the past few days. The situation was a little better, but still not good, observed a BSES official engaged in the fire-fighting operation.

As has been the trend over the past few days, most of the cuts were on account of local faults and trippings. A Transco official said peak load-shedding was just 75 MW against 155 MW on Saturday and the peak demand of power dropped to 2,871 MW from 3,061 MW.

Major parts of East, Central and South continued to be badly hit on the power front today. Due to a major fault in LT cable, the North Delhi Power Limited resorted to rotational load-shedding from 11 a.m. which continued till 6 p.m. Several areas like those in Model Town, Delhi University and Azadpur had no power till late in the evening.

Karol Bagh and the areas around it continued to be the worst affected areas as there was no electricity for major parts of the day. Still residents heaved a sigh of relief as they received a few hours of power supply. "Yesterday was miserable for all of us as we had no electricity for the entire day and all night. Things seem to have improved a bit today as we had power for few hours,'' said R.K. Sinha, a shopkeeper in Ajmal Khan Road.

Among the other colonies which experienced unscheduled load-shedding were Hastsal Road, Uttam Nagar, Kailashpuri in Palam and its nearby areas, Okhla Village, Zamia Nagar, Batla House, Gandhi Nagar, Seelampur, Laxmi Nagar, Shahpur Jat, R.K. Puram, Malviya Nagar, Rani Bagh, Shalimar Bagh, parts of Pitampura, Hari Nagar, Tri Nagar and Karampura. ``Today there were power cuts at regular intervals for two to three hours. Even in the night there was no electricity for an hour at least thrice,'' complained Mukesh Taneja, who resides in Munirka village of South Delhi.

Acute shortage of water or no supply has been a direct fallout of long-hours of load-shedding. "First our colony is always in a water crisis. This has been further aggravated due to power cuts during the time when the DJB supplies water,'' said Deepali Nair, a resident of the posh Vasant Kunj area.

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