Week after cyclone, 500 villages in Saurashtra still without power

EIGHT DAYS after cyclone Tauktae hit the Saurashtra coast, around 500 villages continued to be without electricity on Tuesday even as government-owned power companies are working on war-footing to restore damaged power infrastructure in Amreli, Bhavnagar and Gir Somnath districts.

As many as 430 villages of Amreli district and 69 of the neighbouring Bhavnagar district were without power as of Tuesday evening, Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL), the state government-owned company which distributes power in Saurashtra, Kutch and parts of north Gujarat regions, said in a release on Tuesday evening. Total number of villages without power was 583, including 482 of Amreli and 101 of Bhavnagar.