Additional 6.3 MVA transformer improves power scenario in Rajouri town.

SHYAM SOOD
RAJOURI JANUARY 14:-‘ Recent incessant rains followed by heavy snowfall on the mountains have caused extensive damage to power infrastructure in Rajouri district, both in rural & urban areas, and due to power breakdown inhabitants of the district faced a lot of problems for days together.
The people in many remote areas in Thanmandi, Koteranka, Budhal, Kalakot, tehsils still holding protests for the restoration of power supply.
Power Development Department (PDD) officials in a message to the people on Friday said that the department is making untiring efforts to restore power supply to the affected areas.
The district witnessed massive damage to Power infrastructure, including transformers across the district and a huge pile of damaged transformers has risen at the district workshop of the department at Rajouri.
“The staff at the workshop working round the clock to rectify the faults of the transformers. The field staff is also working to the best of their potential to restore the power supply in all the areas of the district,” said a senior PDD officer.
After several protests held in different parts of Rajouri town against unscheduled power cuts for hours together, Vikas Kundal, DDC had passed directions to the senior PDD officers to install an additional 6.3 MVA transformer at the power receiving station at Thudi.
The 6.3 MVA transformer was made operational on Friday. It has improved the power supply scenario in the town and the prompt action by the DDC & PDD officials was widely appreciated by the inhabitants of the town and adjoining areas.
Earlier 10 MVA capacity feeder was supplying power to the town/adjoining areas, resulting in forced curtailments due to increased demand, especially during the prevailing chilly weather.
It is hoped that the commissioning of this new transformer will mitigate the problem to a large extent as the curtailments would now be of lesser duration.
”District administration under the control of DDC, Vikas Kundal, taking effective measures to ease the lives of the common masses and more steps would be taken in the near future to augment power infrastructure in the district,” said a senior officer.
The DDC had directed for installation of 6 different capacity transformers in the town and immediate commissioning of this 6.3 MVA transformer.