Dimapur, Nov. 21 (EMN): The state’s power department continues to reel off public notifications announcing power cuts and disruptions to be affected in various districts of Nagaland.
On Tuesday the executive engineer of transmission division, Dimapur issued a statement informing about yet another damage to machinery, stated to be a ‘major fault’.
“This is for the general information of the public that in addition to the 20 MVA transformer which was recently damaged by fire, another 66/33 kV, 20 MVA transformer had developed defects since 2.30 pm on 20.11.2017. Testing of the transformer reveals a major fault and may take some time for restoration.
“As informed earlier, a 10 MVA transformer is in the process of being put in circuit which shall ease the power requirement to some extent. While appreciating all the consumers for cooperating with the department during these crises, the Department once again request all consumers to bear with the inconvenience of extended load shedding,” it informed.
A separate statement from the SDO (Trans) Mokokchung sub-transmission division informed power consumers of Mon and Longleng district; and the areas of Changtongya and Tuli under Mokokchung district about occasional disruption in supply of power due to “the ongoing jungle cutting” along 66KV Mokokchung–Naginimora transmission line. “Therefore, affected consumers are requested to kindly bear with the inconvenience.”
