Discom staff cross flooded river to ensure power to 2 consumers

Chandrapur: Showing great commitment towards customer service, MSEDCL employees rowed an electric transformer through a flooded river to provide power supply to an agriculture consumer. Technical employees of Ballarpur sub-division office of MSEDCL risked their lives to cross the flooded river with the heavy transformer in two boats tied together on August 13.
Official sources informed that power supply to two agriculture connections in village Tok (Gangapur) at the furthest end of Pombhurna tehsil was snapped following breakdown in power transformer. The two consumers — Shantabai Dayle and Teklu Kasture — had recently cleared their pending power bills collectively amounting to Rs11,730 and were entitled for regular and uninterrupted power supply.
Assistant engineer Kunal Patil took up the issue and arranged a spare transformer for Tok (Gangapur) village. However, the main hurdle was that there was no proper road to take the transformer to its destination. There is a 30km long dilapidated kuccha road from Pombhurna up to Jungaon, the nearest place to Tok (Gangapur) with approachable road.
It was thus decided to transport the heavy 25 KVA transformer on wooden boats across the Vainganga river flowing in spate. MSEDCL technician Santosh Wadhai and one Raut shouldered the responsibility to row the transformer in the boats at the risk of their lives. The duo loaded the transformer in the boat and transported it with the help of local boatman up to Tok (Gangapur), and replaced the one that had malfunctioned.
Officials claimed that restoration of power supply saved the farmers by allowing them to get the necessary water for re-plantation of paddy in their farms.