99.05% power availabilty???
Text of letter sent to Editor, Times of India, Bangalore, on 10/04/06.
A report in your columns on the 7th instant, captioned 'CM hardsells city at global meet', quotes him as having stated that the reliability factor of power supply in the city was 99.01%, and that no other metropolitan city can compete with these figures. But then, the gensets in our apartment complex have been running for an average of approximately 2hrs and 15 minutes a day during the month of March. And, that was to handle just interruptions. In today's paper, there is a formal announcement of load sheddings for a few hours every day until further notice, meaning we will have to gear up to operate the gensets that many more hours each day. So, what was the CM talking about?
As for cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Greater NOIDA, and even Marxist-ruled Kolkata, in all of which, the power supply is in the hands of the private sector, the reliability factor is not too far from the figure quoted for Bangalore by the CM, so much so, there is hardly any market in these cities for inverters, converters, gensets, candles, etc. Whereas in Bangalore, it is a thriving industrial sector.
All in all, does the CM have a new norm for 'reliability factor'?
A report in your columns on the 7th instant, captioned 'CM hardsells city at global meet', quotes him as having stated that the reliability factor of power supply in the city was 99.01%, and that no other metropolitan city can compete with these figures. But then, the gensets in our apartment complex have been running for an average of approximately 2hrs and 15 minutes a day during the month of March. And, that was to handle just interruptions. In today's paper, there is a formal announcement of load sheddings for a few hours every day until further notice, meaning we will have to gear up to operate the gensets that many more hours each day. So, what was the CM talking about?
As for cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Greater NOIDA, and even Marxist-ruled Kolkata, in all of which, the power supply is in the hands of the private sector, the reliability factor is not too far from the figure quoted for Bangalore by the CM, so much so, there is hardly any market in these cities for inverters, converters, gensets, candles, etc. Whereas in Bangalore, it is a thriving industrial sector.
All in all, does the CM have a new norm for 'reliability factor'?
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