IMPHAL, May 5: The efforts of state Power department to ensure regular power supply to the consumers of the state encountered a hiccup, with the circuit-breaker blowing up at the ill-maintained Iroisemba power station at around 11 am today.
Meanwhile, the Principal Secretary (Power) L P Gonmei and the Chief Engineer (Power) N Sarat Singh has left Imphal today for New Delhi for an appointment tomorrow with RM Nayak Chairman of Power Grid Corporation of India (PGC), the central transmission utility.
The two officials will assist the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh who also holds the key Power portfolio in the meeting with Chairman Nayak at Manipur Bhavan at New Delhi.
The corporatization of the Power department is likely to figure in the said meeting. The Chief Minister has mooted the idea of corporatization under the public-private partnership model and he is likely to seek suggestions from the Power Grid chief in this regard.
According to sources in the Power department, the circuit-breaker could have been blown due to increased power supply in the last few days.
After the state cabinet gave 3 months’ time to the department for ensuring regular power supply to the consumers recently, the department has been putting all-out efforts to tap every available sources of power in the last few days.
The power supply from Yurembam sub-station is received at Iroisemba sub-station which in turn sends to various other sub-stations.
Mechanics and engineers have been working since forenoon today to repair the damage to the circuit-breaker. The power supply resumed at around 10 pm this evening.
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