City may face load shedding, if power shortage continues says chief engineer

Kolhapur | Wednesday | 13th September, 2017

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Kolhapur: The city may continue to face load shedding if power shortage continues in the next few days, said Kishor Pardeshi, chief engineer of Kolhapur zone of MSEDCL, on Tuesday.The state has been undergoing acute power shortage due to supply of coals because of which the power distribution utility has declared load shedding since Monday. "If shortage of power supply continues, the company could be instructed to implement load shedding in A and B groups as well. Decline in power generation has forced MSEDCL to declare load shedding the state. The company has been compelled to implement load shedding due to shortage of power supply in various groups.Citizens are angry over the lapse in power policy. However, we have not implemented load shedding on agriculture feeders," Pardeshi said..