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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
According to sources in the Power department, the circuit-breaker could have been blown due to increased power supply in the last few days.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The power supply from Yurembam sub-station is received at Iroisemba sub-station which in turn sends to various other sub-stations.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
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