Kanpur: Whether it is the day, noon, evening or night power cuts are a widespread or broad problem for the power consumers either living in city areas or Jajmau area.
Complaints are not scant in this regard. The power disruption effects after slight relief of every other cut. The KESCO officers save their skin by saying about higher consumption during these hotter days of summer.
The electricity demand this summer stands at 700 MW. The consumers suffer despite paying power dues every month but KESCO does not correct its normal arrangements to resolve the crisis existing at present.
Residents of different areas complain of low voltage crisis, tripping, undeclared power failures, long-hour disruption in power supply. However, two to five hours electricity cuts have become a normal trait of the power sub-stations in Kanpur.
What residents react: There was only a 15-minute power supply within long five hours in Harsh Nagar, says a harassed consumer.
Further, once the supply line disrupts there is no knowing of the restoration of the supply in Ashok Nagar, tells a fuming youth.
Thirdly, It is a daily phenomenon. Two or three hours of power cuts have been taking place during the afternoon in the Nawabganj Lal Phatak area, states another sufferer. But the story does not end here.
The fourth victim of power cuts in his Lajpat Navar locality points out there remains no surety of reviving power supply despite tripping three to four times.
Taking the last guy's response about power failures in Galla Mandi locality, it was learnt that a very serious problem of low voltage did not solve in the humid weather there.
Turning to the Jajmau area, the condition is not so good or satisfactory. None can know of the difference between the time of supply cut and restoration. The afternoon situation is very bothersome.
The aged ones who have been living in high rise buildings just wait for power restoration to avail themselves of the benefit of a lift.
A resident of KDA Colony in Jajmau has to shift to another house in another area. He said power cuts in his locality was so acute as he has to change his residence. There is no stupidity in shifting to a locality where the power supply remains comparatively strong, said the housewife.
Another change is that people start asking acquaintances living in nearby localities about the supply situation for most of the duration.
With the capacity of 30 new sub-station and 40 sub-stations, the KESCO augmented its power supply capacity but the problems say about the reality that exists on the ground. As many as 1353 new distributions transformers were installed and conductors were changed in a total of 442 about two years ago.
