Further, the discoms have been also told strictly to immediately attend to the local faults in their distribution network which have been identified as a major reason for power cuts in several areas in the city
The directive from the government came after it was found out that outages have been taking place across the city due to faulty transformer and local faults in the distribution network.
"The local faults take place when the network fails to bear high load when the demand soars. The outages also take place when transformers collapse due to high demand," said an official.
He said the government received reports of long power cuts in several areas along the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in North East Delhi due to local faults. Discom BSES Yamuna Power Ltd supplies power in these areas.
"The power department has also asked the discoms to gear up their machinery in addressing the complaints of the consumers related to local faults," said the official adding that it has been made clear to the companies that even loadshedding for shorter duration should not take place.
The power department feels that there was adequate supply of power in the city and outages have been taking place due to local faults and problem in the transmission network.