Guwahati: Barpeta staggered under the crisis of heavy strength, influencing people who work from home and also those who are in house isolation because of Covid-19.
Not to mention children who use online classes.
This, besides increased mercury.
Nalbari villages and Barpeta districts say frequent power cuts, sometimes for about five hours are stretched, in the past two days making life, it has been compounded by a pandemic, miserable.
Power cuts that are often reported in villages under the circle of Sorbhog and Kalgaachia income, make people work from home and those who are under the isolation of a struggling house.
“Shoping loads that are not scheduled to last up to 2-3 hours at night.
At night, it was one hour and continued.
We are really at the end of our tether because it has been very hot since the end of June,” said Rafiqul Islam Ghugubari Village in Barpeta Under the Sorbhog income circle.
“We only get a power supply 3-4 hours at night.
Life is sometimes unbearable due to hot and electric blackouts,” said Himangshu Deka, a resident of Barkhetry in the Nalbari District.
Consumers have expressed their sadness on the social media platform and criticized Assam Power Distribution Limited (APDCL).
A APDCL official said he would buy the strength of Central PSU and “once we can pay our contributions, we will be able to confirm the 24-hour power supply”.
He appealed to Assam people to pay their contributions on time so that the investment needed to develop infrastructure to ensure the power supply all the time can be achieved.