The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) has announced that power supply will be interrupted in phases for a maximum of seven hours for five days from November 29 to December 3 between 10am to 5pm in many localities of southeastern part of the city. Bescom officials attribute this scheduled power cut for quarterly maintenance work to be carried in two sub-stations of Koramangala and Challaghatta Valley and Austin Town areas.
Areas that will be affected will include Ejipura, Nadughatta, Sundari Memorial School area, Vivek Nagar, Rama Temple Road area, Srinivagilu, ST Bed area, Austin Town, Neelasandra, Munegowda Garden, Anepalya and other surrounding locations.
A senior Bescom official said, “All the areas won’t have power cuts at the same time and all the days necessarily. Power outages will be at a transformer level.”
In addition to these seven-hour outages, there are recurrent power outage for 1-2 hours or more across the city for small-scale maintenance work or fixing faults, as announced by Bescom through its social media channels.
Since Wednesday morning, seven such incidents were acknowledged by Bescom affecting areas like HSR Layout 6th sector, AECS Layout, Singasandra, Ramamurthy nagar , Kalkere main road, Hoysala nagar, Srinivaspur, Kogilu Village, Yelahanka Old Town, Bagalur road, Manjunath Layout, Munekolala among other areas.
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