12-hour power cut in city | Chandigarh News

Chandigarh: Many areas faced 10 to 12-hour power cuts after high velocity winds and rain lashed the city on Thursday night.
While the inclement weather hit the electricity infrastructure of the city, falling of trees on power lines added to the crisis.
The power helpline numbers were not reachable. Several residents complained that the numbers were busy continuously. The power department officials said winds along with rain damaged power supply lines, transformers and poles in different part of the city, which caused outage.
Varun Gupta, a resident of Sector 8, said, “In our area, the power supply was restored at 8am on Friday.”