Take this as a New Year gift from HESCOM; tomorrow Sunday 3 Jan 2009 will be black out day as there will be no electricity from 9 am to 4 pm for maintenance work.

The whole of Belgaum city and rural areas will face the power cut.

The supply of power to Belgaum in the recent past has been reduced and which has caused for load shedding of 4 hours in city areas and 12 hours in rural areas.

In the past one month two time tables have been changed. And here is the latest one:

Slot 1: 9am to 11am & 1pm to 3pm

Slot 2: 11am to 1pm & 4pm to 6pm.

Be ready for another shock from the Karnataka govt. All prices of all essential commodities have now gone past the sky to the universe and to give a boost to the same take off the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), on Wednesday, increased the power tariff in the State by an average of 34.16 paise/ unit.

Come December 1, your electricity bills will go up from between 30 paise per unit and Rs 1.20 per unit depending upon usage. There is no hike for consumption below 100 units. The subsidy for usage of solar heater will now be Rs.50 from Rs.40.

The revised tariffs will come into effect in Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd (Bescom), Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd (Mescom), Chamundeshwari Electrical Supply Corporation (CESC) for Mysore region, Hubli Electricity Supply Company Ltd (Hescom) and Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company (Gescom).

There are different tariff for different ESCOM and also for Corporation, Taluka panchayat etc.

See complete tariff structure here.

Its back! You will love this! Most of India is used to it! What is it?

Load shedding, power cuts!

HESCOM yesterday announced a 4 hour load shedding in Belgaum for both domestic and industrial areas. The load shedding will be done in 3 slots; One hour two slots and 2 hour one slot in the evening. Industrial units will face power cuts of two slots two hours at a time.(6 am to 8 am & 6pm to 8pm)

Is this power cut Thanks to the Reddy’s or the present Yedurappa turmoil is not known. May be even we could link this power cut to this as a part of a strategy. North Karnataka saw unprecedential floods for which the rehabilitation work is still on and our MLA’s are enjoying the luxury of 5 star hotels in Hyderabd, Goa and Indore. The people whom we elected for our welfare are busy for their welfare, who cares for the common man.

Scheduled power cut:

Autonagar, Sambra, Sadashiv nagar, Fort road, Cantonment, Vidya Nagar, Bhagya Nagar, Guruprasad Colony, R C Nagar, and Khanapur— 6 am to 7am, 9 am to 10am & 3pm to 5pm.

Viabhav Nagar, malmaruti, Shetty Galli, Khade Bazar, Maruti Galli, City, Peeranwadi, Adarshnagar, Kanbargi, Hanuman Nagar, Shadyri nagar — 7am to 8am, 10am to 11am & 3pm to 5pm.

Shivaji Nagar, Shiv Basav Nagar, Dharwad Road, Mahantesh Nagar, Tilakwadi, — 8am to 9am, 11am to 12 noon & 4 pm to 6pm.

Happy times are over, Load shedding is back. There has been no official confirmation from HESCOM on this but today power was cut for one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening.

So are the power cuts in to stay for long cannot say anything can you. The power cuts are still unofficial and when the same would be official is not known.

BSY is busy fighting for his CM’s chair and the Reddy’s are standing behind to pull it, in this menace what else can you expect. Is this just the beginning?

HESCOM in press release stated that due to maintenance work Belgaum city and also some adjoining rural areas will face a power cut from 9 am to 6pm on Tuesday 15 September 2009.

After the acute power shortage in May and June when there was less water in the hydro power plants, now even after all the hydro power plants are full to capacity the state is facing a power shortage and hence a 2 hours power cuts in urban areas & 10 hours in rural areas is being implemented from today.

 The new time table for the load shedding has been announced.

Belgaum city will face power cuts in two time slots of 9 am to 10 am and 7 pm to 8pm.

Industrial areas will face power cuts 7am to 8am and 6pm to 7pm. 

After some Dharnas and protests by the Weavers from Belgaum HESCOM has now been able to get 80MW of electricity for Belgaum and hence the load shedding will be for 4 hours.

There will be only 4 hours load shedding from 9am to 1pm in the city areas. Industrial areas the load shedding timing will be from 6pm to 10 pm. 10pm to 6 am there will be un disclosed power cuts in the industrial areas. The weavers will face the power cuts from 4pm to 8pm.

Rural areas will still face 10-14 hours power cuts.

Yesterday the weavers of Belgaum locked up the HESCOM officials and MLA in the HESCOM office and the results are visible today I guess.

 Power play or power cuts have now reduced. The daily 6-7 hour cut will be how much in day is yet to be seen, but it’s a sigh of relief to the citizens.

 In the city area there used to be load shedding from 10 am to 1 pm, but today it was from 10 to 11 am only, and hence I am able to update this blog as well on time.

 We need to see the whole day and then take a note of the entire amount the power cuts are scheduled. The HESCOM officials stated that there will not be any more un scheduled load shedding in town.

 Hope for the best. Pray to God for more rains and this power problem could be solved for the time being at least. 

Acute power crisis has hit Belgaum and the state and where city needs 120 MW its hardly getting 44MW.

Minister Eswarappa said that Belgaum will get 20MW more from Wednesday from the central grid. However, is there any surplus in the central grid to provide is yet to be seen?

CM BSY yesterday again cautioned the public at large that the hike in electricity tariff was round the corner and he cannot do anything to stop it. A rise of about 20% to 30% is expected from the next month in the electricity tariff.

The time table declared is for 7 hours where as there are power cuts for up to 10 hours in city and more than 14 hours in rural areas.

Its hardships all the way, kerosene, which was available in the open market for Rs.32 per liter, now costs anything from Rs.35 to 37. This is hitting the businesspersons a lot.

So this is “Government’s work is God’s work”. Those words written on the Vidhan Soudha, Bangalore I had read long time back

On Sunday, HESCOM prepared a time table for power supply and now there will be a 7 hour power cut in city areas and about 10 hours in rural areas, the time table has been implemented since yesterday itself. Belgaum needs 120 MW but only 40 MW has been allocated to Belgaum so the need for the power cut, HESCOM said.

Load shedding schedule- the city will face seven hours power cut in the daytime. Following is the timetable of power cuts (restricted to city) — morning 10 to 1 pm and afternoon 2 to 6 pm, there will be no power supply.

To industrial areas — morning 6 to 10 am, afternoon 1 pm to 2 pm and evening 6 to 10 pm there will be no power supply.

A sigh of relief would be the availability of power from 6 pm to 10pm.

Power cuts and protests against it were seen in most parts of north India, where as in the south 6 to 8 hours of power cuts were seen without much resent from the public as yet. 

As the monsoon has yet to arrive and faults in the various power transmission units and producing units all over the country are causing acute power cuts all over.

 Belgaum is not left either. There is an unscheduled power cut of 6- 7 hours daily from the past 4 days. A common man can understand the problems of power supply companies but the manner in which the same is being implemented is a cause of worry.

 There are power cuts in Bangalore and whole of the state in a same manner. When the lights go, you should be sure that they won’t come for an hour at least, even after and if they still don’t come make the time slot for 2 hours.

Particularly in Belgaum the weather is cold enough for the fans and AC’s to be shut down which is saving power but the small business man like a photocopying, internet cafes had to shut down as there is no power. IT companies working in Belgaum also face the same problem and Swapneel of eth1 network solutions said that he had a 12 hour back up for his office which needs to run 24 *7, 365 days and he had to buy a generator to get power back up. He added we cannot do without power, if inverters fail then we have to have backup systems for this as well.

 The condition will not improve in the week at least, hope the rains god come and also the power generation plants get back on their feet.

 Till all is ok, be primed to face darkness.