Power back in 60,000 more Kolkata households

KOLKATA: Power supply to 60,000 homes on the CESC grid along the city’s southern periphery was restored on Sunday. The development came after a prod by CM Mamata Banerjee who visited power utility CESC’s headquarters at Victoria House in Esplanade on Saturday to drive home the urgency to step up restoration of power lines.
Also, acute water crisis in several localities was resolved on Sunday after booster pumping stations that had suffered power outage resumed operations by either reconnecting to the network or providing temporary connections through generators. This is expected to douse some of the anger in power- and water-starved localities where residents staged roadblocks in protest.
“We have restored power to 92% consumers on the network. We are trying to mobilize more men as the restoration involves re-erecting poles that have buckled or fallen and drawing cables afresh to reconnect homes with the supply grid,” said a CESC official.