BHUBANESWAR: Power was restored to nearly 100 percent of the customers affected by cyclone Yaas at a record five times, government police said on Monday.
Of the approximately 30 lakh households whose electricity source was changed, 29.
60 lakh had obtained back distribution by Sunday evening.
For the remainder mostly in Soro region of Balasore district, Dhamra and Basudevpur of Bhadrak, Anandpur at Keonjhar district and a couple of pockets of Maurbhanj, that the job has nearly been finished Monday, electricity secretary Nikunja Dhal told TOI.
Underneath the rapid restoration lies the authorities plan to mobilise machine and man prior to the cyclone hit May 26.
Following the IMD predicted the cyclone will hit northern sections of coastal Odisha, the authorities mobilised 10,000 employees and proceeded electrical poles, conductors and cables to strategic places in northern regions of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Mayurbhanj.
Though the powermen got to the recovery job that the very next evening, NDRF and ODRAF had cleared fallen branches of trees.
“Employees were created from Nayagarh, Ganjam, Dhenkanal and lots of western Odisha districts.
Bearing in mind that the pandemic, rapid antigen tests of those employees were completed to guarantee disease does not spread among employees via an infected individual from one of them,” Dhal stated.
For and keep workers for energy recovery, the authorities had declared special labour prices for those employed by the energy distribution businesses and OPTCL for recovery of cyclone damages.
Unskilled employees were compensated Rs 462 upwards from Rs 308 while semi-skilled acquired Rs 522 (upwards from Rs 348) and proficient employees gained Rs 597 (upwards from Rs 398).
“A part of recovery work was hard in areas that were heavily overburdened.
Fix of a 33 KV Dhamra feeder has been a difficult job since the region has been marooned,” the energy secretary said.
The energy division has pegged the complete reduction to electricity infrastructure at approximately Rs 150 crore, largely at Balasore and Bhadrak districts.
The relatively low loss to this infrastructure will be credited to pre-emptive measures in expectation a potential summer cyclone.
“Since in the past two decades, dropped branches of trees had largely damaged powerlines, now several trees had been pruned in April and May.
This preventative maintenance helped a great deal in minimising harm.
Additionally, this prevented many trees by becoming uprooted,” Dhal stated.