Gurgaon: Amid rising temperatures and a spike in power outages and tripping incidents, Haryana has ordered stricter checks to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply across the city.Special energy secretary and managing director of the North and South Haryana Power Distribution Corporations, Vikram Singh, directed officials to prevent avoidable disruptions, particularly during peak summer demand.Singh was in Gurgaon for a whole-time director-level review meeting of DHBVN to assess the progress of ongoing projects, schemes and pending works.“Power outages should be kept to a minimum and consumers should not face any unnecessary disruption in electricity supply,” Singh said, calling for immediate improvements in service reliability.The meeting reviewed a range of issues, including progress on infrastructure projects, pending captive connectivity cases, electrification plans, and work under the Mera Gaon Jagmag Gaon scheme. Officials also discussed the solarisation of govt buildings.Deliberations were held on technical specification approvals, pending electrical works in several areas, shifting of 33kV lines, procurement of transformers and cables, and issuance of agricultural tubewell connections. Proposals for hundreds of new tubewell connections in the Fatehabad and Bhiwani circles were examined, along with requests to extend commissioning timelines for solar power generators under the PM-KUSUM scheme and appoint an agency for publicity under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana.The meeting also reviewed progress under the RDSS project, Smart City work components, daily and field visit monitoring, pole removal, and Right of Way (RoW) issues. Newly proposed substations and augmentation plans were also discussed.The review came a day after a major technical fault disrupted power supply in several parts of the city. On Friday, both circuits of the 220kV substation in Sector 72 developed faults, affecting supply to substations in sectors 15, 38, 44, 46, 52 and 56, along with the Maruti area.According to power corporation officials, one circuit was restored within around 30 minutes. The outage also affected Rapid Metro services for nearly 35 minutes, from 7.50pm to 8.25pm.“Initially, since the load was being operated on only one circuit, precautionary power cuts were implemented in some areas. However, through the swift efforts of corporation officials and technical teams, supply from both 220kV circuits of the Sector 72 substation was fully restored by 10.10pm,” a DHBVN spokesperson said.
