The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has curtailed power supply to rural areas, small towns and tehsil headquarters following the rising demand due to soaring temperature.
Officially, supply to rural areas is pegged at 16 hours, to nagar panchayat towns at 21 hours and tehsil headquarters at over 21 hours, while district headquarters, municipal corporations and big cities are exempted from power cuts.
The UPPCL has however claimed that there is no major power crisis in the state.
Official sources admitted that load shedding did happen due to local faults but the same was unavoidable due to heavy load on power distribution.
