dark days
text of the letter sent to the Times of India:
I refer to the report captioned "City has 3.5 dark days a year" in your columns yesterday (June 18th).
As compared to 86 hrs listed against Bangalore by you, the genset records maintained by our housing society indicates an aggregate of 243 hrs (equivalent of over 10 days) during the calender year 2006. In the first 4 months of the current year, it has already recorded 142 hrs, with April alone accounting for 61 hrs. With the monsoons playing truant, in addition to the incapacity of BESCOM to manage the job, over which it however still wants to cling on to its monopoly status, things can only get darker as the days progress.
The figure of 50 hrs listed by you against Mumbai possibly reflects the period when power was deliberately shut down due to the floods the city experienced last year. Otherwise, Mumbaikars are generally well placed on this count, reflected in the fact that the city is not much of a market, compared to Bangalore, for gensets, inverters, converters, batteries, emergency lamps, candles, match-sticks, and what have you. Similar is the situation with Ahmedabad, Surat, Kolkata, Greater Noida, etc. The essential difference between these cities and Bangalore is that whereas we have the government-owned BESCOM supplying us power, they are all served by companies in the private sector.
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I refer to the report captioned "City has 3.5 dark days a year" in your columns yesterday (June 18th).
As compared to 86 hrs listed against Bangalore by you, the genset records maintained by our housing society indicates an aggregate of 243 hrs (equivalent of over 10 days) during the calender year 2006. In the first 4 months of the current year, it has already recorded 142 hrs, with April alone accounting for 61 hrs. With the monsoons playing truant, in addition to the incapacity of BESCOM to manage the job, over which it however still wants to cling on to its monopoly status, things can only get darker as the days progress.
The figure of 50 hrs listed by you against Mumbai possibly reflects the period when power was deliberately shut down due to the floods the city experienced last year. Otherwise, Mumbaikars are generally well placed on this count, reflected in the fact that the city is not much of a market, compared to Bangalore, for gensets, inverters, converters, batteries, emergency lamps, candles, match-sticks, and what have you. Similar is the situation with Ahmedabad, Surat, Kolkata, Greater Noida, etc. The essential difference between these cities and Bangalore is that whereas we have the government-owned BESCOM supplying us power, they are all served by companies in the private sector.
Need one elaborate more?
posted by Muralidhar Rao at
10:24 PM
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