Noida, Gzb face severe power outages
9 Jan 2015 5:11 AM IST
Normal life in NCR has been disrupted by power cuts for four-eight hours a day. The industrial belts are also facing scheduled power cuts of as many as four hours daily. Numerous outages and frequent line-tripping has also been reported.
Several social organisations and resident forums are also threatening to stage protests over such outages.
Adding to the residents’ woes, the officials of the power department have stated that situation will deteriorate in the coming days. “We cannot meet electricity demands as there is huge supply shortage due to the strike. Although we have stocked power, we will have to cut power for few hours in the region. For now, we have been monitoring the situation but it is hard to avoid the crisis which will deepen in the couple of days,” said Arvind Rajvedi, superintendent engineer at Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, a subsidiary body of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited.
In Noida, the demand is lesser than 850 MW, while the supply stands at a paltry 700 MW. While industrial units face four-six hours of loadshedding, lights are out in residential units six-eight hours daily. The worst-affected are the rural areas where electricity is supplied for only eight to 10 hours. In Ghaziabad, the power supply varies between 750 MW to 800 MW against the required demand of 1,100 MW.
The residents of Govindpuram, Vasundhara, Vaishali, Indirapuram, Raj Nagar, Sahibabad, Murad Nagar, Modi Nagar, Govindpuram in Ghaziabad, various sectors of Noida and Greater Noida are reeling under severe power crisis. Outages in Noida’s Phases I, II and III and Greater Noida have left industrialists fuming. Blaming the power department for the crisis, welfare bodies have said that they must make alternative arrangements.
“As the strike was pre-announced, the department should have been prepared for this. If outages continue, we will not hesitate to protest,” said NP Singh, president of Federation of Noida Residents’ Welfare Association (FoNRWA).
Several social organisations and resident forums are also threatening to stage protests over such outages.
Adding to the residents’ woes, the officials of the power department have stated that situation will deteriorate in the coming days. “We cannot meet electricity demands as there is huge supply shortage due to the strike. Although we have stocked power, we will have to cut power for few hours in the region. For now, we have been monitoring the situation but it is hard to avoid the crisis which will deepen in the couple of days,” said Arvind Rajvedi, superintendent engineer at Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, a subsidiary body of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited.
In Noida, the demand is lesser than 850 MW, while the supply stands at a paltry 700 MW. While industrial units face four-six hours of loadshedding, lights are out in residential units six-eight hours daily. The worst-affected are the rural areas where electricity is supplied for only eight to 10 hours. In Ghaziabad, the power supply varies between 750 MW to 800 MW against the required demand of 1,100 MW.
The residents of Govindpuram, Vasundhara, Vaishali, Indirapuram, Raj Nagar, Sahibabad, Murad Nagar, Modi Nagar, Govindpuram in Ghaziabad, various sectors of Noida and Greater Noida are reeling under severe power crisis. Outages in Noida’s Phases I, II and III and Greater Noida have left industrialists fuming. Blaming the power department for the crisis, welfare bodies have said that they must make alternative arrangements.
“As the strike was pre-announced, the department should have been prepared for this. If outages continue, we will not hesitate to protest,” said NP Singh, president of Federation of Noida Residents’ Welfare Association (FoNRWA).
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