Ludhiana: Residents in several parts of the city continue to suffer due to regular power cuts and shortage of water supply. Monday was no different as several localities faced disruption for up to eight hours.
The electricity supply was snapped in many areas, including,Deep Nagar, Mundian Khurd, Tagore Nagar, Udham Singh Nagar, New DMC, Dussehra ground, Upkar Nagar, Prem Nagar, Rajpura Road, Kitchlu Nagar, KVM School, BVM School, Guru Nanak Pura, Chawwni Mohalla, Salem Tapri, Dana Mandi, Sabzi Mandi, Nanak Nagar, Chandni chowk, Bhora, Silver Kunj, Janakpuri, Ashok Nagar, Jalandhar bypass, Peeru Banda, Aman Nagar, Manna Singh Nagar, Pink Vihar, Saroop Nagar, Ashok Nagar, New Aman Nagar, Royal City, Maskeen Nagar, Rishi Nagar (all blocks) ,Shere Punjab Colony, Punj Peer road, Joshi Nagar, New Tagore Nagar, Islamganj, Prem Nagar and adjoining areas. The residents had to remain without electricity for several hours.
Several residents rued that during the Covid times, the problem was felt even more acutely as work from home and online education had become the norm.
“Power cuts are the biggest problem in our city. Lots of people are made to suffer because of it. I had my college presentation on Sunday, which I had to cancel just because my laptop was not charged and my phone’s battery was also almost dead,” said Simarpreet Singh Madhok, a student from Dugri.
A businessman at Miller Ganj, Gurpreet Singh Kharbanda, said, “Most of the time there are power cuts in the industrial area, which are leading to losses. Production is affected badly because of this.”
Ashish Lakhanpal of Chhawni Mohalla said, “Power went off at 9am. It is unjustified. On one hand, the government has increased power rates and on the other it has failed to provide power and thus made people suffer. Children too cannot concentrate on studies in such conditions.”
“Power cut nowadays is a very big problem as due to these power cuts, streetlights become non-functional and this becomes an open invitation for accidents. It will lead to great loss of work for the people who are working from home. So, special efforts should be made regarding this,” said Twinkle Jindal, a resident of Bajra Mohalla.
Engineer-in-chief, PSPCL, Ludhiana, Bhupinder Khosla, said, “Due to urgent and unnecessary maintenance work, 11kv feeder Ludhiana remained shut on Monday and power supply remained affected in some areas. We had already informed about this maintenance work in advance in all areas where the supply was to be affected.”