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Tangedco has replaced 55 electrical poles that were damaged owed to beardown winds successful Kannamangalam and surrounding farming villages successful Tiruvannamalai connected Saturday.
Tangedco officials said that farming villages similar Kalasamuthiram, Kongarampattu, Kolathur, Andipalayam, Kuppam, and Kannamangalam person been witnessing regular evening rainfall with beardown winds. Most lands successful these villages are nether paddy cultivation. “Unscheduled powerfulness cuts, particularly aft harm of electrical poles owed to winds has affected farming arsenic farmers were incapable to run centrifugal pump sets to irrigate their land,” said G. Muthu, a farmer.
Against this backdrop, galore farming villages on Cheyyar stream adjacent Arani and Polur towns person been witnessing beardown winds and rain. Tangedco officials said that astatine slightest 60-70 electrical poles were damaged. Most of the electrical poles are located connected cultivation lands and colony roads.
Each electrical pole, which costs ₹2,950, measures astir 30 feet successful height. In bid to forestall powerfulness interruption successful farming villages, Tangedco officials said that 55 caller electrical poles person replaced damaged poles successful Kannamangalam substation limits that person astir 45,000 consumers.
At present, Kannamangalam and surrounding farming villages person astir 2,500 electrical poles. Tangedco officials said that beardown winds person not damaged immoderate electrical transformers successful the region. “Most of the electrical poles are damaged during evening hours. Repair works are done during the daytime. On an average, each caller electrical rod could beryllium installed successful 2 hours. In 5 days, Tangedco has replaced 55 damaged poles,” M. Silambarasan, Assistant Engineer (AE), Tangedco (Kannamangalam), told The Hindu.
Residents urged Tangedco officials to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness proviso successful the country owed to rising heat.
