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A file picture of fire-fighters attempting to douse a fire that broke out at Nagarjan sub-station in Dimapur on November 12, 2017.[/caption]
Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, April 3 (EMN): A power outage in Dimapur that lasted for more than seven hours sparked panic among citizens who, it must be said, have seen it all before.
It is April – which means, for Dimapur, summer is knocking outside the door. And the arrival of the hotter days, especially in the district, has almost always meant trouble for the state’s department of Power, and the citizens of the town.
From Monday 11 pm till around 6.30 pm Tuesday, residents of Dimapur were left with no power supply.
According to eyewitness’ account, ‘a small fire’ started off at around 11 pm of April 2 at the Nagarjan power substation. The executive engineer of transmission division, Nitovi A Wotsa told Eastern Mirror that one of the power transformers at said station had caught fire on the night of April 2 and ‘brought under control in a few minutes by the fire department’.
Asked if this was the reason behind the power outage, Wotsa claimed that the transformer has been ‘restored’. Wotsa, however, maintained that his ‘team’ was working to ascertain the cause of the ‘problem’. He also informed that the state government has ordered for another transformer which is already in transit from Madhya Pradesh to help ease the power supply in the district.
Also, the state’s department of Power issued a press release on Tuesday citing ‘technical snag’ that occurred at 132KV sub-station in Nagarjan, Dimapur around 11PM on April 2 as the cause behind the blackout for almost eight hours.
“Due to the complicated nature of the breakdown, despite all out efforts by the department, much time was required to restore power supply to the entire district. The department deeply regrets the inconvenience caused to the consumers under the district,” it stated.