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Uttar Pradesh to get 24-hour non-stop power during festive season
- •The Uttar Pradesh government has made solid arrangements to ensure 24-hour uninterrupted power supply across the state during Dussehra, Diwali, and Chhath Puja.
- •UPPCL Managing Director Nitish Kumar has issued strict instructions to tighten power arrangements across all five discom zones, including district headquarters and rural areas.
- •Special teams and engineers from the electricity department will be continuously deployed on the ground to handle any technical faults during the festivals.
- •Maintenance campaigns such as tree pruning and transformer capacity checks are underway to prevent unplanned tripping and handle peak power demand.
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The Uttar Pradesh government has issued orders to provide 24-hour non-stop electricity without power flickering or outages across all villages, cities, district headquarters, tehsils, and remote rural areas during festivals like Dussehra, Diwali, and Chhath Puja.
UPPCL is maintaining strict vigilance by inspecting transmission and distribution equipment, improving transformer capacity, pruning tree branches around power lines, and deploying special engineering teams on the ground to address technical faults.
The electricity department is maintaining an excellent balance between demand and supply, having successfully met record power demands ranging between 22,000 and 24,000 megawatts while monitoring the grid 24 hours a day from the control room.
