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Last month, around 400 residents under BESCOM's S6 subdivision, JP Nagar, were in for a shock. Their bill reflected a penalty ranging from Rs 4000 to Rs 1.1 lakhs. Upon enquiry, they found out that the penalty was for not entering into an agreement with BESCOM at the time of shifting into LT3 consumer category. The overall penalty charges amounted to around Rs 43 lakh. From left to right: Kashinath, Pradeep Nagaraj, Sunita K S. Pic: Abhishek Angad In May 2010, there was a major shifting of electricity installations from residential (LT2) to commercial (LT3) in the S6 subdivision of…

1) There will be no power supply from 8 am to 5 pm on March 24th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV K&C Valley MUSS.Affected areas are: Nagasandra, Agaram Dairy, Challaghatta, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Airport, Golf Link Software Park, Murugesh Palya, National Aerospace Laboratories, NR Garden, Kempapura, Wind Tunnel Road, Yamalur, Konena Agrahara, SR/NR Layout, Salarpuria Touch Stone, Salarpuria Hall Mark, Logica, Ashwini Layout, NAL Control Tower, Amarjyothi Layout, Parts of Domulr, and surroundings. 2) There will be no power supply from 10 am to 4 pm on March 24th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Kumbalgodu MUSS.Affected areas are: Ramohalli, Beemanakoppe,…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 12 noon on March 7th, Wednesday, in areas under 66/11KV Vijayanagar MUSS because of maintenance works.Affected areas are: Thimmenahalli, Govindaraj Nagar, MC Layout, Binny Layout, Marenahalli, Hosahalli, PC Industrial Area, Kaveripura, Ranganathapura, KCG Industrial Area, Nanjappa Industrial Area, Prashanth Nagar, Kamakshi Palya, HVR Layout, Syndicate Bank Colony, Pipe Line Road, RPC Layout, Maruthi Layout, Manuvana, Vijayanagar 1st to 9th Main, Selvam Industrial Estate, Sunkadakatte Industrial Area, part of Magadi Road, KHB Colony, Kamala Nagara, Basweshwara Nagara, Telephone exchange, Teacher's Colony, Mudala Palya, A Dasarahalli, part of Vrushabhavathi Nagar, Nagarabhavi BDA…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on March 3rd, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV A-STATION for maintenance works.Affected areas are: SC Road, TB Road, AR Circle, Binny Mills, City railway Station, Cottonpet, Akkipet, part of Chickpet, Balepet, Avenue Road, Kilari Road, Mamulpet, Cunningham Road, Palace Cross Road, Abshot Layout, Chakravarthy Layout, Kumar Krupa East Extension, Vasantha Nagar, Palace Road, Kanteerava Stadium, Nagarathpet, Century Club, Central Library, Old Taluk Office Road, Okalipuram, Prakash Nagar, Bashyam Park, Lakshminarayanapura, KP west, Srirampura, RV shetty layout, Krishna Flour Mill, VGP gate, Karnataka Judicial Academy, West End Hotel, Karnataka…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 4 pm on February 25th, Saturday, in the following areas under 66/11KV Attur Yelahanka MUSS for quarterly maintenance and other works.Affected areas: Attur, Vidyaranyapura, MS Palya, KMF, Yelhanka New Town, Yelhanka Old Town, Maruthi Nagar, Chikka Bommasandra, L&T Industrial Area, NCBS, Kattigenahalli, Dwaraka Nagara, BEL Layout, Mother Dairy, Kogilu, Matharu Layout, Judical Layout, IAS Layout, Chikkabettahalli, Doddabettahalli, Allalasandra, IAF, GKVK, Venkatala, and surroundings. ⊕

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on February 25th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Banashankari MUSS, 66/11KV Devarabisanahalli MUSS and 66/11KV Hoody MUSS because of quarterly maintenance and other works. 1) Affected areas under 66/11KV Banashankari MUSS: Srinagara, all phases of Girinagar, Avalahally, Basawanagudi, Channamanakere Achukattu, Bank Colony, Srinivasa Nagar, Kalidasa Layout, Nagendra Block, Muneshwara Block, Raghava Nagar, Banashankari 1st, 2nd and 3rd Stage, parts of Shankarapuram Tyagaraja Nagar, part of Bull Temple Road, Kempegowda Nagar, Shankara Mutt Road, part of Rangarao Road, Lakshmipura, Brindavannagar, Dhobhighat, Vidyapeeta, Mahanta Layout, New Timber Yard Layout, Hoskerehalli Road,…

The long pending request of Jayanagar residents to remove transformers on footpaths has materialised. BESCOM is converting multi-pole transformers here to single pole transformers. (Single pole transformers occupy lesser space on footpaths.) Work started on the transformer on the busy 7th Main road, 36th Cross in Jayanagar 4th block, on February 13th. The old transformer used to obstruct traffic on the road, and the footpath was unusable. This transformer in Jayanagar 4th block is being replaced by a single pole transformer now. Pic: Keshava Kumar N Persuation by Jayanagar MLA B N Vijaya Kumar and the team work by BESCOM…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on February 11th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Jayadeva MUSS, as works have to be carried out.Affected areas are: BTM 1st and 2nd stage, Mico Layout, Silk Board, NS Palya, Shoppers Stop, KAS and IAS Colony, Jayadeva Hospital, Runka Colony, Manthri Residential Apartment, MORE Shop, Surabhi Appartment, Bannerghatta Main Road, New Gurappana Palya, part of Bismilla Nagar, Jaibeema Nagar, Maddorramma Colony, Maruthi Housing Society Layout, Jayanagar 9th Block, Jayanagar 4th T Block, Jayanagar 11th Main 5th Block, Tilak Nagar, SRK Garden, 8th Main Byrasandra, Jayanagar 3rd Block East,…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 5 pm on February 13th, Monday, in the areas under 66/11KV Byadarahalli MUSS, to carry out quarterly maintenance and other works.Affected areas are: Kempegowda Nagar, Hosahally, Police Quarters, Pillapa Estate, Anjana Nagar, Laxmanan Nagar, Gajanana Nagar, SG Kaval, Sunkadakatte, D Group Layout, Health Layout, Sir M Vishveshwaraiah Layout, Rajaji Nagar, HSCS 1st and 2nd stage, Annapurneshwari Nagar, Chandrashekar Layout, Erranna Palya, ITI Layout, MPM Layout, Papareddy Palya, Kengunte, Balaji Layout, Gollarahatti, Chikka Gallarahatti, Kodigehally, Chikka Kodigehally, Kannahalli, Seegehally, Gongadipura, BEL 1st Stage, Byadarahalli, Gidadakonehalli, Muddina Palya, Upkar Layout, Herohally, Mahadeswara…

1) There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on February 4th, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV Hoody MUSS, as works of quartely maintenance, oil leakage fixing and commisioning of fire protection system have to be carried out.Affected areas under 66/11KV Hoody MUSS (Power Transformer No-2): Graphite Road, Vishweshwaraih Industrial Area, Hemkund Road, ITI Ancillary, Devasandra Industrial Area, Dooravani Cable Road, Kaveri Nagar, GC Palya, RHB Colony, Lakshmi Sagara, Saraswathi Nagar, Mahaeswari Nagar, MD Pura Bande, TESCO Company, EPIP Layout, SAP LAB Company EPIP Layout, Hoody, Graphite Road Left Side, Oballa Reddy Compound, L&T Company EPIP…