1,000 transformers plan for IAF zone dropped

GURGAON: DHBVN has dropped plans to install 1,000 transformers to strengthen four feeders, for which the World Bank had given funds in 2009, as the feeders reportedly fall within the restricted area of the city’s ammunition depot.

In 2008-09, the discom had announced plans to augment the existing transmission system to ensure minimum outage. Loads of major feeders were to be bifurcated and 5,000 odd high-capacity transformers installed, to take care of demand for the next 10 years. Work began in 2010.

DHBVN executive engineer (constructions) A K Goyal said of the 23 feeders to be covered, only 19 will have been done by this July. The remaining four are being dropped as they fall within the restricted 900m radius. “When the project began, there was no Punjab and Haryana high court directive restraining infrastructure development here,” he said.

Close to 1.5 lakh consumers in the area will not get any respite from voltage fluctuations and power outages in the area as a result.