Greater Noida Electricity Crisis: The local residents expressed concern over the electricity crisis and said six to eight-hour-long outages were happening daily amid heatwaves.
Noida Electricity Crisis Latest News: Affected residents in Greater Noida expressed concern over ongoing electricity crisis in the city and threatened to stage protest if their matter is not addressed. As per a report by HT, these residents also plan to forcefully bring down the shutters on the office of Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) this week.
The local residents in the high-rises including Panchsheel Hynish, Supertech Ecovillage 1, Ajnara Homes expressed concern over the electricity crisis. They said six to eight-hour-long outages were happening daily amid heatwaves.
The residents of the New Era Flat Owners’ Welfare Association (NEFOWA) also threatened to launch a protest in the coming days if the situation remains unaddressed and they also staged a protest outside the residence of a senior NPCL official.
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However, the electricity official NPCL responded to the local residents’ concerns and said outages were limited to Greater Noida West, mostly because of the poor power infrastructure at residential societies.
Apart from the protest, the local residents also sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s intervention, and have written to state power minister AK Sharma.
“Our residential society has been witnessing continuous outages for the past four days. We have been complaining about the problem to officials but to no avail,” Rohan Gupta, of Panchsheel Hynish, was quoted as saying by HT.
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In the meantime, an NPCL official shared that at Panchsheel Hynish, one of their internal transformers got damaged on Sunday. A notice was also served to them to get it fixed earlier.
NPCL spokesperson Manoj Jha said the builder/management of the residential society continued to use the transformer which led to damaging it.
He further added that these residential societies in Greater Noida West have exceeded their population and are accommodating around 8,000 residents.
