Residents have taken to Twitter to complain about outages in areas!
New Delhi: Some parts of Delhi are witnessing a power cut as the city is suffering with an intense heatwave.
Residents have taken to Twitter to report outages in areas including Chhatarpur in south Delhi for several hours. Similar blackouts have been reported from East Delhi too.
"No power supply in east Delhi old Anarkali area from 11:00 pm, no response from BSES customer care," said a user on Twitter.
"@bsesdelhi No Power from Last 3 hrs… Sant Garh Tilak Nagar plz help," appealed another user tagging the electricity provider.
Delhi has been witnessing severe heat waves over the past few days, with the temperature crossing 44 degrees at most places. The Safdarjung Observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 43.9 degrees Celsius, four notches above normal, yesterday.
The weather office has issued a heatwave warning in parts of Delhi on Monday too.
Parts of Delhi faced power cuts on June 10 as well. The city fell short of 250 megawatt (mw) of power. Officials said that power shortage was because of low supply to Northern Grid from where Delhi draws a major portion of its power due to outages in hydro power plants in Himachal Pradesh.
Dwarka, Vikaspuri, Janakpuri, Sagarpur, Uttam Nagar, Tilak Nagar and neighbouring areas reported power cuts lasting more than five hours. Parts of South, East and North Delhi, too, experienced intermittent power cuts.
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