PUNE: Pune metro services are facing repeated power- and technical- failure issues for quite some time now. So much so that metro services had to be suspended thrice in the past fortnight alone. At a time when commuters are facing hardships, metro officials are claiming that the problem will be resolved in a month.
Shravan Hardikar, managing director, Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha Metro), said, “We need three receiving sub-stations to balance the load, and supply continuous power to the Pune metro. Work on two out of the three receiving sub-stations has been completed namely, the one under the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and the one at Ganeshkhind. The third is at Vanaz and will be completed in one to three months’ time.”
“We are working on switching loads automatically. Currently, we are switching loads manually. Once we complete and implement the automatic switchover load system in a month, there will be no disruption,” Hardikar said.
