Gurgaon: Gusty winds followed by thunderstorms on Monday night made several places in town with no electricity distribution.
At many locations, dozens of trees have been uprooted, and because of this several power wires were damaged resulting in power surges and outages that lasted for 2 to 13 hours.
Residents alleged that lack of care, update of infrastructure and tracking from the power division cause disruption in electricity supply.
RK Yadav, RWA president of Sector 46 stated,”The energy source got upset around 1.15 am on Monday.
In some places, it had been revived about 3 , while at different pockets the power section was just able to animate it at 7:30am.
In our industry, roughly 15-16 trees had been uprooted through the storm.
We needed to remov them to clean the streets.
Whenever there’s storm or rain, the infrastructure is struck hard, which makes us trouble.” The electricity failures also have hampered the water distribution in some regions of the city.
“Because of its power failure, the water source into Sector 9A, 9 and home board can be hampered through the morning affecting around 4,000 households in the region.
There are a few individuals in our own colony, that are still have to use oxygen concentrator to keep their oxygen degree have confronted lot of trouble night,” said Lalit Suraj Bhola, General secretary, RWA industry 9A.
Meanwhile, Manoj Yadav, superintending engineer, DHVBN stated,”There wasn’t a significant disturbance but a disturbance and it had been revived within a couple hours”.
Dozens of trees uprooted, outages for hrs Because infra Struck
