Nagpur: More than 24 hours after power supply was disrupted to several civic installations, including around 20 traffic signals, CCTV cameras and other Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) facilities, and later restored, neither Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) nor NMC can conclusively explain what triggered the outages.The outages began on Friday morning, particularly affecting…
Pune: Out of 11,770 complaints that Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) received between Jan and May from consumers in the Pune zone about inflated bills after smart meter installation, merely four were substantiated, minister of state (MoS) for energy, Meghna Sakore-Bordikar, said on Friday in state assembly session.She was replying to questions raised…
MSEDCL starts probe after electrocution death Nagpur: More than 48 hours after a 60-year-old woman, Afroz Begum Azim Khan, was electrocuted by a live wire jutting out in a rain-filled stretch in Auliya Nagar near Tajbagh, the power discom, police and civic administration are busy tying the case in knots. Nobody has been held accountable…
Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation disconnected the water supply and sewage connection of Amoli Co-Operative Housing Society in Sector 30, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, after the building was declared a dangerous structure under the C-1 category. The building was declared dangerous in 2019-20 by the Municipal Corporation committee under category C-1 (highly dangerous, uninhabitable,…
Nagpur: Hundreds of electricity consumers, activists, trade union members and representatives of various political parties took out a massive march to Vidyut Bhavan on Katol Road on Thursday to protest what they termed the forceful installation of smart electricity meters by Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL).The march was organised by the Smart Meter…
Residents get stuck in a lift housing society in Handewadi Pune: Several housing societies in Handewadi are facing frequent power interruptions due to road-widening work being carried out on the Hadapsar stretch of the palkhi route leading to Dive Ghat. Residents had staged a protest in May against the recurring outages, citing inadequate power infrastructure…
MSEDCL staff conduct repairs MSEDCL staff conduct repairs MSEDCL staff conduct repairs MSEDCL staff conduct repairs MSEDCL staff conduct repairs Pune: The civic body’s ongoing drainage work damaged underground feeder cables leading to a power outage affecting 6,500 consumers in Sadashiv Peth, Navi Peth, Shastri Road, SP College and Sane Gurujinagar on Friday.Pune Municipal Corporation…
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