Gurgaon hit by six-hour power cuts

Gurgaon After a brief respite, several parts of the city are once again reeling under unscheduled power cuts. In particular, residents of areas in new Gurgaon — DLF city and Sushant Lok — remain worst hit with power cuts in these localities lasting up to six hours since the past three days.

On Friday night, residents of various blocks in DLF Phase-I, Phase-II and III claimed there were eight hour-long outages in their area. And on Saturday, residents of Phase I reportedly had to brave six-hour-long power cuts.

Fed up with the persisting problem, residents are blaming DLF and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) for not upgrading power infrastructure in the area and passing on the buck to each other. R S Rathi, president, Qutub Enclave Residents Welfare Association (QERWA), said the main reason for frequent breakdowns was the under capacity of transformers and almost negligible maintenance. ‘‘The entire DLF City is experiencing long outages these days. We face long power cuts, specially in the morning, and it causes trouble for office-goers and schoolchildren as the geysers do not work. Our power woes simply refuse to go away,’’ said Rathi.

While Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitaran Nigam (DHBVN) officials said minor outages were reported from a few areas, they maintained the problem was not ‘‘too grave’’. ‘‘A breakdown in one 11KVA feeder line, which distributes power to DLF Phase II, led to the problem. In a few other blocks, there were technical snags reported in transformers. But power cuts lasted only 2-3 hours,’’ said a senior DHBVN official. Twelve feeder lines of 11KVA each bring power to DLF. And residents have been blaming that the city’s power trouble would not cease till upgrading of transmission system was carried out completely.


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