Switch off only light-emitting devices: Power Company
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi call for solidarity, asking Indians to switch off household lights at 9.00 pm on April 5, for nine minutes in the fight against Covid-1, power companies in the state, fearing an outage, requested people to switch off only light-emitting equipment during the ‘lights off’ exercise.
Chhattisgarh State Power Companies’ additional general manager and PRO Vijay Mishra in a statement said, doubts are being raised about what will happen if all the electrical equipment are shut down all at the same time.
“It might affect the power supply system across the country and result into a major power outage across the country,” Mishra said.
Mishra in the statement said, power engineers have asked people to switch off only light-emitting equipment in their houses. Other equipment like fans, ACs, refrigerators and should be kept switched on.
