Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] — Frequent power cuts in Thiruninravur

Address:

Thirunindravur, Chennai - 602024

As everyone is getting accustomed to this pandemic situation, refitting our lives to staying back at home, working from home, learning from home, doing business from home, etc., which have affected our everyday life to any extent. The pain caused is extensive.

In a way of helping us coupe with such a situation, our government is taking their good efforts to meet our basic and essential needs to help us stay safe and secure.

Electricity has become one of the basic necessities and very much a required one. Because all the work from home, learn from home and every other single activity evolve around it. Such an important necessity should be supplied 24/7 without any hassles unless for an unavoidable situation.

I live in dasarpuram, thirunindravur, chennai - 602024. For the couple of months we have been going through power cuts everyday for at least 2 hours, anytime regardless of rain or shine, day or night. (This i say apart from the regular maintenance shutdown - one day per month). I cannot affirm such power cuts are necessary or unnecessary or compulsory from my end. But considering the way we go through, it has / have affected every single life here. Anyone should think and feel the pain and the trouble caused by such power cuts.

Note: not every home is equipped with inverter / solar / power-gens.

Some of the awkward situations every common citizens face:
1. Consider you are in middle of your studies or going through an online exam, and your power goes off...
2. You are rushing through your online assignment or project to submit, and your power goes off...
3. You are attending an important webinar or in a conference video call with your management / boss, and your power goes off...
4. You are opening or winding up your business for the day because of the permissible time, and your power goes off...
5. Every one is at home. Father / mother / both running office / work / business from home, children studying / attending an exam from home, a baby screams in suffocation, because of your power went off...

True that we cannot avoid a power cut, but here we are in a anticipatory situation of such, every single day and any time. How? Why? How come the power goes off every day at the same time? After questioning them like this, now it happens at anytime, but 2 hours for sure. Either it would be 2 hours at straight or twice for 1 hour. I am texting this in a power cut situation. This morning there was for one hour. Now again. This happened everyday.

Now...
1. Repeated failure of an equipment shows the low standards used or inadequate.
2. Repeated failure caused at any particular area and the failure to sort it out shows incompetency of the concerned person.
3. Providing lazy excuses and threatening like responses during such situations shows the irresponsible behaviour of the persons appointed.

When tried calling the local eb office either they won't reply our call or come up with some reason which we hear from them more often. If we call the respective ae or je they too get irritated to answer our call (Stressed out?).

My personal experience with such calls are witty. Whenever i called any such persons their questions to me is like a. Who are you? B. What are you / what is your occupation? C. Where are you working? D. Which place is your office situated? There is nothing wrong in inquiring my name and locality of the power cut. But what about the other questions? Aren't such questions intimidating?

Is there a remedy for such power cuts in our area?
Is there is anyone responsible in the tneb to look into such power cuts?
Or help us out with a alternate option for such power cuts.

Thank you.