The steady spike in temperatures, coupled with unannounced power cuts through the day and night, have left Mohali residents at their wits’ ends.
For weeks, amid record-breaking summer, frequent power outages have become routine in Mohali district, hitting those without inverters the hardest. Even those having power back-up have been left struggling in the face of long power cuts that leave their inverters drained out, electrical devices down and refrigerated food spoiled.
With children also at home in view of summer vacations at schools, residents working remotely amid the Covid pandemic have been hit by double whammy. Multiple power cuts trip computers repeatedly and drain out laptop batteries, forcing people to move to their relatives’ and friends’ houses in the more power-surplus Chandigarh to continue with work.
