Jagran correspondent, Lucknow. This time also the electricity department is engaged in improving the electricity system of the capital in the coming summer. For this, work is going on to install many transformers in the business plan and other schemes. Transformers are being installed in many areas in Old Lucknow including Chowk, Aishbagh, Thakurganj, Balaganj, Katra Vision Beg, Gaugat, Aptran, Gomti Nagar, Chinhat, Dubagga, Rajajipuram, Para, FCI, Kakori, Kanpur Road, Ashiana, Alambagh, Charbagh.
The objective is that there should be no electricity tripping from April to September 2026. However, the question arises that where the transformers are being installed, will they be able to support the Aerial Bunch Cable i.e. ABC or will they fail as the demand for electricity increases in summers. Because ABCs are burning from the year 2023 and currently ABCs have been installed at 98 percent places in the capital.
Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited has been trying to make Lucknow a no tripping zone for nine years. This is once again an attempt in this sequence. Let us tell you that the arrangements regarding electricity have improved but every year there are two dozen power sub-stations including Utretia, FCI, Sarosa Bharosa, Ahibaranpur, Para, Rajajipuram, Ashiana, Dubagga, where the work that should be done to improve the electricity arrangements is not done.
Even today, among the 150 power sub-stations in the capital, there are many which are running from a single source. The condition of Mohanlalganj, Nadarganj, Gosaiganj, Mal, Malihabad, Intauja, Banthra, Sarojininagar, Nagaram, Nigohan, Chinhat and the areas adjacent to Takrohi which come under the cess area is not better. There is still a need to increase the capacity of transformers and replace overloaded power substations with new substations. Electricity substations are running at full capacity, new ones are needed
The Ganeshganj market of the capital is not running from its original power substation but from the New Aminabad power substation. At present there is sufficient load at both Aminabad and New Aminabad power substations. LDA refused to give the land of the old RTO office which was to be given to the Electricity Department.
Whereas the power substation of Gomti Nagar is running at its full capacity. Two new power substations are to be built but it is too early to say whether they will be ready this summer. Similarly, a blueprint for a new power substation was prepared in Amausi Zone, Jankipuram, Lucknow Central Zone, but the matter got stuck due to budget and land issues. Problem of installing transformer in developed colony
The demand for electricity in colonies like Gomti Nagar, Vikas Nagar, Indira Nagar, Mahanagar has increased by twenty to thirty percent in the last three to four years. In such a situation, the engineers sent the proposal for the transformer as per the business plan. The seniors have approved, now the local people are not allowing transformers to be installed in public places.
Same is the condition in Santoshi Park located in Vivek Khand 3. Here the 250 KVA transformer is running at its full capacity. The transformer here has burnt many times in summer. Here the new transformer has been approved but another transformer is not being allowed to be installed next to the one installed in the park.
Some people argue that the value of their house will reduce by installing a transformer. In such a situation, even the engineers of the electricity department are unable to muster the courage to decide what to do. There are many such cases in the capital.
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