Strong winds and heavy showers last night brought down the day temperature in lower Kangra areas today but they also disrupted electricity and water supply here. Winds uprooted trees at several places, damaging High Tension (HT) and Low Tension (LT) power supply cables. The electricity supply remained suspended in the area last night. It was restored by field employees of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd (HPSEBL) this noon. The failure of electricity supply also affected the water supply in the town.
HPSEBL Nurpur division Executive Engineer Zafar Iqbal said strong winds uprooted trees which snapped power cables in Nurpur, Suliali, Kotla and Damtal sections. He said tree felling damaged power supply lines at three locations in Damtal, one in Nurpur, two in Suliali and one in Bhadwar disrupted electricity supply in these power feeders.
