Local faults lead to outages and tripping in Ghaziabad societies
"The power supply was disrupted from 2am on Sunday.
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While the supply resumed around 7.20am, even after that, it kept tripping due to no changeover. In one tower, there was no fan or light in the lift, while for nearly 5 hours, a power backup supply was given, which cost Rs 22 per unit," NK Negi, a resident of Prateek Grand City at Siddharth Vihar, told TOI.
The township has nearly 12,000 residents living in the complex across 3,000 units.
The maintenance staff informed the residents via MyGate notification that the power supply from the Siddhartha Vihar substation failed at 2.10am early Sunday morning.
"The supply was given to the society through a DG set at night. The UPPCL engineer was called at night, and he checked the fault in the line. A fault was later found in the substation line was checked, this took time in repairs," said the society estate manager's notice.
The supply, which resumed around 7.20am kept tripping, and the power backup and changeover process continued until 7.40am. Later on Sunday, around 4pm, yet another outage occurred, this time, a shutdown notice was issued by the area substation.
The notice issued by the estate manager of Prateek Grand City Siddharth Vihar stated that due to the UPPCL substation maintenance work on Sunday, the supply of the main grid will be disrupted .
Similar was the situation in the Golflinks Landcraft Township on National Highway-9, Ghaziabad, where more than 4,000 families faced over 20 hours of outage.
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