Jharkhand News: Sindri township in darkness for 24 hours
SUBHASH MISHRA Dhanbad, May 27: Sindri Township has completely been in the dark since Sunday afternoon. JVBNL Assistant Engineer Sujit Kumar told media persons today…
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SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, May 27: Sindri Township has completely been in the dark since Sunday afternoon.
JVBNL Assistant Engineer Sujit Kumar told media persons today that due to an oil leakage, the transformer of DVC has been tripped leading complete breakdown of the power supply in the township. Experts’ teams of DVC and JVBNL are coming to assess how to restore power.
The official could not give a tentative timeframe when power in the township will be restored.
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Following the power breakdown down, the normal life of 50,000 Sindri Township people, including 8000 FCI quarters residents and official workers of banks, post offices, LIC branches, schools, and colleges has been completely paralyzed.
Transformer not maintained for 22 years
One of the victim residents said that the transformer was installed in the Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL) regime and its maintenance has not been done for 22 years. Though HURL has come up in place FCIL, it has its power generation plant to cater for the requirement.
The JVBNL official said that work is in progress to resume supply from other sources as soon as possible.
