power cuts

Overloaded supply and distribution lines and transformers are the reason for load shedding in some of Bengaluru’s areas.

Tariff hikes and purchase of additional power to meet increasing demand are some of BESCOM’s plans for 2011. An Citizen Matters exclusive with ‘reformer IAS officer’ P Manivannan, who took charge as BESCOM Managing Director last October.

Only three people objected to BESCOM’s proposal for a price hike. Why is it that people put up with the arbitrary ways of BESCOM and not question it?

Adarsh S Vansay installed solar cell plates and windmill at his house in JP Nagar two years ago and now plans to disconnect BESCOM power supply to his house.

BESCOM’s current load shedding schedule for Bengaluru is two hours of no power everyday – in batches, timed by each feeder station.

If the rains continue, there might not be any need for power cuts throughout the state, says H Nagesh, Director Technical, Bangalore
Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM).