The Patna Electric Supply Undertaking (PESU) has formed a Special Maintenance Group under MRT division to maintain constant power supply. Apart from this, every division office has emergency control rooms which will rectify any technical snag very quickly, said superintending engineer (SE) S K P Singh.

BSEB spokesperson H R Pandey, while talking to TOI, said, "To maintain uninterrupted power supply across the city and even other parts of the state, the BSEB is drawing additional 150 MW of power from the NTPC." These special arrangements will continue till the day of Vijayadashmi, said Singh.

Apart from this, shortage of power and frequent load-shedding which the entire Patna west circle had been facing has now been resolved following rectification of the technical snag in the 50 MVA transformer at Khagaul grid.

It may be mentioned here that the power transformer had developed snag last month leading to a terrible power crisis in the city. The BSEB was then forced to resort to six to eight times load-shedding in many areas of western Patna. "The capacity of Khagaul grid went down by one-third forcing us to undertake prolong hours of shedding in many city areas. Though the load was distributed between Jakkanpur and Bihta grids yet it was difficult to maintain adequate power supply," said the SE.

Board officials got the fault rectified in a record time after engineers were flown in from Kerala. The equipment, which developed snag and had gone out of order, was produced by Kerala-based company in a short period after orders were placed by the BSEB, said BSEB chairman Swapan Mukherjee.

Now localities like Gardanibagh, Anisabad, Dak Bungalow, Kadamkuan, Jagdeo Path, Ashiana, Danapur urban areas, Pataliputra Colony, Boring Canal Road, Anandpuri, Nehru Nagar, Rajiv Nagar, Indrapuri, New Pataliputra Colony, Kurji etc will get relief from frequent load sheddings, added the chairman.