Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, May 21 (EMN): If it isn’t the weather disrupting power supply in Dimapur, it is the outdated machineries breaking down that causes power outages across localities. The same case it was on Monday, and the latter hours of Sunday.
It was around 11 pm on May 20 that there reportedly occurred a so-called ‘cable blast’ at the Nagarjan sub-station that led to affecting power supply to the sub-station at Metha colony. The second substation feeds a large portion of Dimapur’s urban populace.
During the afternoon of May 21, power supply was briefly restored after the damaged cable was ‘repaired’ at the Nagarjan sub-station. But within less than 30 minutes, most localities were left without power again.
In the evening, it was informed that a circuit breaker (CB) had stopped functioning at the Metha sub-station leaving countless colonies in darkness.
A source from the sub-sation informed that one CB was actually being used for two panel boards which feed electricity to major colonies in urban Dimapur. “The circuit breaker that stopped working today was also used for another panel board which is why it could not take the load,” revealed the source. It was informed that there ought to be one CB for each panel board.
A frustrated consumer who was also present at the power station complained that only after a major shutdown do authorities rush to buy necessary equipments which may or may not be available in the market. “It would be better if the spares of these parts were already bought and present so that it can be fixed at the earliest,' the irate citizen stated.
The People’s Democratic Alliance government’s 100-day target programmes include replacement of outdated machinery and equipment as a priority. New panel boards have arrived to be replaced as soon as possible, it was informed.
Dimapur has seen a rise in temperature by a few degrees during the past three days. The breakdown in power supply would only mean that the residents will face the heat in ways more than one in the coming days.
