In an effort to ensure uninterrupted power to localities like Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Khairatabad, Raj Bhavan, Hyderguda, Panjeshah and many other localities in Old City, new 33/11 KV sub-stations were constructed.

In some cases, the load was transferred from one sub-station to other. According to officials, at Road No. 2, Banjara Hills and Road No. 12, 33/11 KV sub-stations were built almost six months ago but

power had to be drawn from the 132 KV substations located near Peddamma temple at Jubilee Hills.

To draw power, road cutting has to be taken up between sub-stations and the main source.

The work has to be taken up on a stretch of 5 km in both locations. For that, permission has to be taken by the CPDCL from the concerned department, GHMC, which maintains the road. But the GHMC has kept its decision in abeyance and has kept the CPDCL hanging for several months now.“There have been

regular power disturbances in Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Khairatabad, Old City and many other areas.

The existing sub-stations are completely overloaded. As a result, one or two hours of power cuts are unavoidable on a daily basis,” an official of CPDCL told Expresso. Officials said once these works are taken up, it would helpful to lakhs of people who would be spared the inconvenience of power cuts.

While the GHMC has not been sitting on the decision to allow road cutting to be taken up by the CPDCL, it has recently taken a decision to increase the road cutting fee by four times. Earlier, it used to charge Rs 500 per metre of road cutting. Now, the GHMC charges up to Rs 2,000. “The GHMC has taken the decision suddenly. As a result, all the projects are becoming financially unviable,” an official added.