Power woes: After maintenance works, city faces more outages & administration’s apathy
10 July 2014 10:31 PM GMT
After the completion of transmission restoration works in Delhi, the residents face the heat of the administration’s apathy. Power outages have become a normal phenomenon and particularly in areas under Reliance-owned BSES Yamuna Power Limited. However, the consumers of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited areas are not facing power cuts of any sort. Despite stern warnings from Delhi LG Najeeb Jung and Delhi Electricity Regulatory Authority (DERC) has show-cause notices to the three discoms, the condition remains to be same.
In the past 12 years of privatisation of power in Delhi, BSES could not develop sustainable infrastructures such as grids, transformers and cables. In BSES areas, the complaint of grid failure, transformers’ damage as well as cables’ blast incidents occur almost every day. Shaheen Bagh resident Irshad Ahmad says: ‘The President-rule is worse than Sheila Dikshit-led government perhaps. On Wednesday, Sarita Vihar, Jasola and Abul Fazal enclave areas faced major power cuts since early morning.
The Reliance-owned Discoms BSES ( Yamuna and Rajdhani) on Thursday issued outage bulletin for 20 June (Friday). BSES Yamuna areas will be affected power supply on 20 June are Seelmpur, Moujpur, zafarabad, Khajoori Khas, Jhilmil Industrial Area, Shakar Pur, Ganesh Nagar, Sheesh Mahal, Vijay Park, Yamuna Vihar Nand Nagari, Preet vihar, sonia vihar and Mayur Vihar phase-1, 2 & 3. In BSES Rajdhani Areas would be affected on 9 July in Tamur Nagar, Jamia Nagar, Batla House, Defence Colonoy, Ashram, Sri Niwas Puri, Pnakh Road, Hari Nagar, Mayapuri, matiala, Bindapuri and Janakpur, Dwarka and Dabari etc. Meanwhile, the power demand in the city recorded the season’s highest of 5,634MW on Wednesday even as several areas faced power cuts for up to two hours due to problem in the transmission network.
In the past 12 years of privatisation of power in Delhi, BSES could not develop sustainable infrastructures such as grids, transformers and cables. In BSES areas, the complaint of grid failure, transformers’ damage as well as cables’ blast incidents occur almost every day. Shaheen Bagh resident Irshad Ahmad says: ‘The President-rule is worse than Sheila Dikshit-led government perhaps. On Wednesday, Sarita Vihar, Jasola and Abul Fazal enclave areas faced major power cuts since early morning.
The Reliance-owned Discoms BSES ( Yamuna and Rajdhani) on Thursday issued outage bulletin for 20 June (Friday). BSES Yamuna areas will be affected power supply on 20 June are Seelmpur, Moujpur, zafarabad, Khajoori Khas, Jhilmil Industrial Area, Shakar Pur, Ganesh Nagar, Sheesh Mahal, Vijay Park, Yamuna Vihar Nand Nagari, Preet vihar, sonia vihar and Mayur Vihar phase-1, 2 & 3. In BSES Rajdhani Areas would be affected on 9 July in Tamur Nagar, Jamia Nagar, Batla House, Defence Colonoy, Ashram, Sri Niwas Puri, Pnakh Road, Hari Nagar, Mayapuri, matiala, Bindapuri and Janakpur, Dwarka and Dabari etc. Meanwhile, the power demand in the city recorded the season’s highest of 5,634MW on Wednesday even as several areas faced power cuts for up to two hours due to problem in the transmission network.
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