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After cutting water supply, MVR Infra snaps power lines to Bardez | Goa News – Times of India
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The power supply that went off at around 12.30pm on Thursday was not restored in most parts till late in the night.
The electricity department officials said they have lost count of the number of times MVR Infra Projects has punctured the cables and several letters from them to the contractor have been in vain.
The electricity department officials said the underground cables running from Tivim substation were punctured half an hour apart leading to the blackout in Bardez taluka.
Museum of Goa (MOG) director and artist Subodh Kerkar told TOI that he was forced to run the museum at Pilerne on a generator for the entire day and even when he returned home to Saligao at night, he had to make do with candles.
“The contractor needs to be penalised instead of taking things so casually. There is nil coordination between the PWD, WRD and the electricity departments. If the government cannot handle simple and basic issues like electricity, the minister should resign. Instead of empowering themselves by buying MLAs, they should start acting like leaders and working in the interest of people. As a citizen, I protest,” Kerkar said.
The electricity department engineers said despite sending several letters to the contractor, more underground cables continue to be punctured during road work reducing the life of the cables and causing loss to the exchequer.
They said the PWD must act against the contractor for repeatedly damaging the power cables. “But the contractor is influential,” one of the officials said.
On its part, the PWD said it has issued a showcause notice to MVR Infra Projects.
“A showcause notice was immediately issued on Thursday. For earlier instances, where water supply pipeline was damaged, showcause notices have been issued,” principal chief engineer Uttam Parsekar told TOI.
In the past five months, the highway expansion work by MVR Infra Projects has seen water supply to Bardez taluka getting affected on at least three occasions due to damage to the pipeline.
“The contractor has been told that they have to take up the repairs immediately as these are basic utilities and complete the repairs in the shortest possible time. These conditions are part of the contract. The underground cables have already been repaired,” Parsekar said on Thursday evening, while most of the taluka was in darkness.
When TOI contacted MVR Infra Projects managing director M R K Prasad Rao, he said: “Please call me tomorrow.”
A resident of Pilerne waited for seven hours in the hope that power would be restored and at 7:30pm was forced to go to Panaji and work from his office premises.
“The power went out at around 12:30 in the afternoon and didn’t come back at all until 8pm but was out again after an hour. There should be a ring system to divert the power in such cases,” he said.
Kerkar said to keep the museum running on a generator was very expensive. “But we had to do it in the service of art. The tickets don’t cover the cost of the generator and the visitors too were inconvenienced,” he said.
PWD officials said there are no blueprints available with the department indicating the location of the underground cables or the water supply pipelines. The water pipelines were laid almost four decades ago, but the underground cabling work was carried out recently.
“For all new works, maps are being maintained to indicate the location of the utilities. In fact, when new roadwork is taken up, alternative lines for underground power cables and water pipelines are being provided, so that there is a back-up available in case the main lines suffer major damage,” said Parsekar.
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