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Residents of respective agrarian and semi-urban pockets astir Tiruvarur person complained of predominant and unannounced interruptions successful powerfulness proviso from the Neelakudi substation, disrupting life, including harm to household electrical appliances.
The Neelakudi substation serves much than 20 villages, including Neelakudi, Vaipur, Nadappur, Perumpugallur and Thirupayathankudi. It caters to residential localities specified arsenic Santhosi Nagar, Arooran Nagar, Uppiliyappan Nagar, Muthamizh Nagar, and Dhanalakshmi Nagar successful Keezhakavathukudi panchayat, located adjacent to Tiruvarur town, though they gully proviso from a substation astir 15 km away, the residents said.
They alleged outages hap astatine slightest 4 oregon 5 times a day, often without notice. “Frequent powerfulness cuts person go routine, affecting regular beingness and work. Several electrical appliances person been damaged owed to repeated outages,” said V. Chitra of Arooran Nagar.
V. Arumugam of Santhosi Nagar said complaints to the powerfulness inferior had not yielded results. “Every day, powerfulness cuts hap 4 oregon 5 times — astir 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9 p.m. — affecting galore radical successful antithetic ways,” helium said.
The situation, residents said, worsened connected Saturday (December 20) erstwhile proviso was suspended for attraction enactment without what they described arsenic a due announcement, starring to “severe inconvenience” to the people.
When contacted, Executive Engineer Senthamizhselvi said consumers were alerted up of full-day shutdown. She said she would look into the complaints regarding predominant interruptions and deficiency of announcement successful the Neelakudi proviso area.
