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Noida/Ghaziabad: The power situation in Ghaziabad has been dismal in the past fortnight. However, the power department claimed there was full supply and that only local faults were fixed once before 8 am and after 6 pm. “There was overloading problem in the feeders of these two lines which led to power cuts on Tuesday night as brief rostering was resorted to, to cool down the overloading,” said Kumar. As a result of this, each household is forced to pay for diesel run gensets, which is Rs 600 per hour. On an average, the city is witnessing 4-6 hours of outage which has left residents fuming.“In the last three days, our area has witnessed at least four hours of power cut daily..