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Panaji: Power minister Pandurang Madkaikar on Friday said works to the tune of Rs 7.75 crore are being undertaken to upgrade infrastructure in Cuncolim constituency. “Lines and poles will also be replaced,” he said.Local MLA Clafacio Dias recently agreed to support Cuncolim citizens in a protest scheduled on Saturday. Madkaikar said Dias shouldn’t blame the government as he hadn’t sent a single proposal to the electricity department. He said that this is expected to reduce power cuts in Goa.In Panaji, which already has underground cabling, Madkaikar blamed the power cuts on “digging by the public works department (PWD) and the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), especially for laying lines for the sewerage network”. He appealed to locals not to protest over the frequent interruptions in power supply, assuring them that the situation would improve in a few days.On the cards, he said, were 14 new transformers and the upgrading of 35 existing ones..