Ukhrul faces daylong outage again
Source: Hueiyen News Service / R Lester Makang
Ukhrul, June 23 2015 :
Amidst the bitter public grumbling over frequent power interruptions, another outage hit the whole town of Ukhrul on Tuesday making the residents contend with the unending power woes yet again.
Following a few interruptions to the normal supply since late Monday evening, the town's residents today woke up to a total power failure which lasted for the whole day.
On contacting MSPDCL Ukhrul Division over the matter, an official informed Hueiyen Lanpao that power supply in the town was disrupted due to a sudden break down of a power panel at 11 KV Substation, Hundung.
Later power supply was restored around 5:30 pm as assured by the official.
However, the power supply went out after about one hour and the whole town was again in darkness till the time of filing this report.
What is apparently alarming the public is the high frequency with which power outage occur in the town.
Disposing the public sentiment, a town resident Aphung said that frequent power cut is a big problem.
"The concerned authority should ensure regular power supply through quality maintenance," he observed.