Uttar Pradesh power crisis set to ease from tomorrow

The severe power crisis in Uttar Pradesh may start easing from May 1 with the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) having made arrangements for purchase of additional electricity from different sources to bridge the demand-supply gap, energy department officials said.

They also said the power deficit in UP was still only less than 8% compared 20% in Jharkhand, 16.9% in Rajasthan, 16.9% in Haryana, 16.7% in Punjab and 9.3% in Bihar.

“Moreover, despite all the odds we are making no emergency load shedding in district headquarters and ‘bigger towns’ that all continue to get power supply for 24 hours, unless some local faults occur,” they said. “We expect the situation to be better from Sunday onwards,” they claimed.