Consumers, industries still grappling with power cuts
Posted on: 17/Jul/2014 2:54:33 PM
Whether it is power shut downs or power cuts, ultimately it is the consumer who suffers.
After days of suffering due to demand and supply gap, domestic consumers in Tamil Nadu have been put to more hardship due to faults in substations, cables and transformers.
The Tamil Nadu State Power Minister, Mr. Nathm Viswanathan made a distinction between load shedding and scheduled power cuts to bolster the claim that there are no power cuts in any part of the state.
However, industry, especially the labour-intensive variety, and residents in many areas of Chennai complain that there have been frequent outages extending from a few hours to days.
According to a TNEB official, people have already put on the job to rectify the problems n transmission lines. It may take up to 6 months!
The problem is more pronounced in Chennai and its suburbs due to presence of manufacturing and other industries like information technology.
Whereas the government has more or less bridged the gap between demand and supply from 4000 MW to almost nil, it needs to address transmission problems urgently by upgrading infrastructure.
The board and its subsidiaries are setting up 27 substations and replacing 543 distribution transformers in the city and peripheral areas.
