Heavy damage to infrastructure delaying restoration of power supply in Yadgir district

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Heavy rainfall  and gusty winds person  brought down   a ample  fig   of energy  poles and transformers similar  this 1  successful  Kakkera colony   of Yadgir district.

Heavy rainfall and gusty winds person brought down a ample fig of energy poles and transformers similar this 1 successful Kakkera colony of Yadgir district. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Officials of Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company (GESCOM) successful Yadgir territory are uncovering it precise hard to reconstruct powerfulness proviso adjacent aft 24 hours of disruption owed to a ample fig of energy poles and transformers being damaged owed to Sunday’s downpour and gusty winds.

According to sources, astir 500 energy poles and 100 transformers were damaged successful some Yadgir and Shorapur GESCOM divisions, causing powerfulness outage.

“A ample fig of poles besides broke down successful the Hunsagi subdivision. We are connected the tract and taking restoration operations, and truthful far, 60% has been completed,” Executive Engineer of the Shorapur part Rajshekhar Bilwar told The Hindu.

Several villages nether the Gurmitkal subdivision successful the Yadgir part are the worst affected. People successful galore areas don’t person energy proviso adjacent aft 24 hours of disruption.

The sources said that restoration of powerfulness lines successful municipality areas and those that supply energy to workplace pumpsets successful agrarian areas is astir completed. However, it volition instrumentality much clip to implicit enactment connected the full powerfulness proviso network.

Meanwhile, radical are showing choler against the officials successful the Yadgir part bureau for not responding to calls connected powercut complaints.

“We called the GESCOM fig which is reserved for user complaints galore times. But determination is nary response. What is the usage successful keeping a helpline fig erstwhile these radical aren’t capable to be to telephone calls?“ a pistillate questioned.

Basaveshwar Nagar, Vishwaradhya Nagar, Deshpande Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Mata Manikeshwari Nagar, Hosalli Cross and Gunj country person suffered the astir harm successful Yadgir metropolis limits.

Hanumegowda Beeranakal, nonmigratory of Buddha Basava Nagar, has expressed anguish against officers for not restoring energy connected time.

Published - May 25, 2026 08:01 p.m. IST

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