The power outage lasted for 2 hours in various parts of Kanyakumari district including Nagercoil, Konam and Parvathipuram. The general public across Tamil Nadu suffered severely due to such unannounced power outages.
In Cuddalore district, power has been cut off from 8 pm in several areas including Cuddalore, Nellikuppam, Panruti and Virudhachalam. Frequent power outages in various parts of Tirunelveli as well. Following this, Netizens have been posting on Twitter about the power outage in Tamil Nadu.
They also comment that it is reminiscent of the DMK regime of 2006-2011. Minister Senthil Balaji has clarified the matter.
In his Twitter post on this, he said, ‘Tonight about 750 MW of power supply from the central grid to the southern states was suddenly cut off.
About 750 MW of power supply from the central grid to the southern states was suddenly cut off tonight.
To overcome the power shortage in some places due to this
Immediately increase the productivity of our board (1/2)— V.Senthilbalaji (@V_Senthilbalaji) April 20, 2022
Due to this, action was taken to increase the productivity of our board immediately to procure from the private sector to overcome the power shortage in some places.
Electricity will come in a little while more … Electricity Board Info
Thus the situation in the urban areas was immediately rectified. Measures have been taken to improve the situation in rural areas in the next 15 minutes.
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