709 villages in Saurashtra still face blackout
Even as state-owned power companies were working overtime to restore its electricity distribution network destroyed by Cyclone Tauktae, as many as 709 villages of Sauarashtra continued to face blackout for the seventh day on Sunday.
However, the number of villages without power has been going down every day with repair and restoration work on a war-footing.
Power supply to 5,425 villages in 12 districts of Saurashtra-Kutch regions was disrupted on May 17 as Tauktae made landfall between Una in Gir Somnath and Rajula in Amreli district. Since then, the Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL) has restored power supply to 4,719 villages. The number of villages without power was 881 on Saturday. Supply was restored in 172 more villages by Sunday, bringing down the number of villages without power to 709.
