With the Calangute village reeling under frequent power cuts amid summer heat, angry locals gathered at Panchayat office and met the sarpanch Joseph sequeira requesting him to allow them to have a meeting with the chief engineer stephan fernandes Paying heed to their grievances sarpanch has assured to hold a meeting with the chief engineer
The scorching heat along with frequent power cuts has made living inside the houses in the popular beach village of Calangute unbearable. Annoyed with the deteriorating power situation, locals have been complaining to the power department but apart from assurances nothing much happens even as the situation seems to be getting worse.
What is surprising, however, is that despite commissioning the new 33/11 KV sub-station at Arradi, Calangute, the coastal village has been experiencing power cuts almost every day.
While entire Calangute has been facing power outages, the wards of Gaura-vaddo and cobravaddo have also been facing power cuts
“Power cuts have become a routine in the village. power goes off after every half hour. It is restored for a few minutes and then off it goes again and so our electrical appliances are getting damaged said a local vivek Dsilva
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According to another local Xavier lourceno fernandes said that frequent power cuts damaged his costly electric gadgets at home.
“We have been facing power cuts every 15 minutes which has damaged my frodge set costing Rs 25,000, an air condition unit worth Rs 30,000 and a water pump of Rs 15,000 also got damaged Who is responsible for my loss?” questioned Fernandes,
He appealed with the villagers to organise a meeting with the electricity department and the power minister to discuss the issue.
Calangute Sarpanch, Joseph Sequeria admitted that the whole village was facing power problems leading to a lot of frustration among the locals.
“People have been complaining to the electricity department but it appears the engineers are helpless. Some of the villagers approached me requesting to have a meeting with the department engineers. It’s high time the department finds a way out to resolve the issue,” Sequeira said.
“I have recently spoken to the chief electrical engineer and even issued permission to the electricity department to dig up the road from the sub-station to Gaura-vaddo to lay the cables,” the sarpanch said.
He, however, said that the power department had dug up the road near Boa Viagem to the sub-station while erecting the new sub-station but were yet to restore the road.
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