Erratic power cuts affect all

Despite the scheduled load shedding being only two hours, power cuts have begun to exceed five hours every day in southern districts with supply increasingly become erratic and unpredictable, complain residents and industrialists. A few months back, both scheduled and unscheduled load shedding was confined between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., residents said and now they were facing power cuts even after 6 p.m. almost daily. ‘Fund TANGEDCO' Apart from the five hours, the HT industries face another four hours in peak hour restrictions as they cannot draw power from the grid between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. “The Government must pump in funds into TANGEDCO to enable them to buy power from private power producers,” he added. Rajendran, president of Kappalur Industrial Estate Manufacturers' Association, which has around 300 small units employing 12,000 workers in the estate, said that they faced almost six hours of power cuts on Sunday.