Velacherry and a few surrounding areas will be without power from 9am to 5pm on Wednesday as the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has proposed to take up work to replace breakers at 1103311 KV substation. The sub-station now has 3 breakers and 12 feeder breakers.Changing all feeder lines will be carried out in three phases. On Wednesday , in the first phase, 4 feeder lines and other equipment will be changed. The entire sub-station will be upgraded in 10 days and there will be power shutdown on another two days for 8 hours.
The areas that will go without power on Wednesday include entire Vijayanagar, Nehru Nagar, Ram Nagar, VGP Selva Nagar, 100’ Bypass road (both side), Kamarajarpuram, Lakshmi Nagar Koil St, Murugu Nagar, Dhandeeswaram, Rajalakshmi Nagar and Rajendra Nagar, Velachery Main Road (entire area), Sarathi, Seethapathi Nagar, Baby Nagar, Tansi Nagar, Tharamani, bypass road, Lakshmipuram, Droupathi Amman Koil St, Madipakkam, Pallikaranai, Vanuvampet and Adambakkam.