Three days industrial weekly off imposed in remaining districts of Punjab; whole state covered

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Three days industrial weekly off imposed in remaining districts of Punjab; whole state covered

Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in

Punjab state power corporation limited (PSPCL) has started imposing industrial weekly off, due to shortage of power in the state.

After starting power cuts in domestic category from June 30,2021, PSPCL has now started imposing weekly off in industries. After imposing two days weekly off in Central (Ludhiana) zone and Jalandhar Zone, West Zone , now the powercom has decided to impose three days weekly off for industries of South Zone and Border Zone, also. These weekly offs will not be applicable on essential and other exempted industries.

Three days industrial weekly off imposed in remaining districts of Punjab. The South Zone comprising of Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala and Ropar Districts and parts of Fatehgarh Sahib, Ludhiana, NawanShahar, Bathinda and Mansa Districts, PSPCL Border Zone comprising Amritsar with Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran circles. The west zone of PSPCL comprises of seven districts including Bathinda, Mansa, Muktsar, Moga, Faridkot, Fazilka and Ferozepur. PSPCL Central Zone comprises of Ludhiana (East), Ludhiana (West), Khanna and suburban circles and PSPCL North Zone comprises of Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar circles.

As per the schedule, “thee weekly offs shall be observed with immediate effect on industry.” The authorities further clarified those fixed charges for the weekly offs shall not be levied.

When contacted the PSPCL authorities, they confirmed the same and said “in North Zone and Central Zone the weekly off will come into effect from 16:00 Hrs from July 1, 2021 to 16:00 hrs of July 3,2021. Where as in West Zone, it started from 22:00 hrs on July 1,2021 to 22:00 hrs of July 3,2021 . But South Zone and Border Zone will have three days weekly off, starting from 08:00 hrs of 4-7-2021 to 08:00 hrs of 7-7-2021 ”

Similarly, all DS Zones (North, South, West, Central, Border Zones) will have three days weekly off 08:00 hrs of 5-7-2021 to 08:00 hrs of 8-7-2021 ”

Even Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday ordered curtailment in timings of state government offices from today, and cutting down of power supply to high energy consuming industries with immediate effect, to save crops and ease the domestic power situation. Now, today the Punjab state power corporation limited has issue an Appeal to the “owners of Shopping and Commercial Establishments (including malls) in Punjab, to use power judiciously and switch off ACs for the next Seven Days till 09/07/2021.”

The power crises majorly rose in Punjab, due to the non-functioning of one of the 660 MW unit Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL) . TSPL has a total capacity of 1980 MW.

“As one of TSPL unit is not in operational mode , which created power shortage in the ongoing paddy season. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has already directed the powercom authorities to give 8-hour power supply to farmers, for paddy sowing. Farmers were not getting the required power supply. So, the PSPCL management has decided to impose weekly off in industries” said a powercom official on the condition of anonymity.