On Tuesday, Ajit Pawar, district guardian minister said the long break in the monsoon leading to reduced water level in dams than will face 20 per cent water cut from Wednesday Pimpri-Chinchwad and Talegaon in Punecity. Pawar advised citizens to use water carefully and avoid wastage.
He said, the water levels in the dams supplying water to Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad areas would be reviewed on July 30 to August 31. The water cut force increase or reduces considering water levels and the rains. After July 30, the water cut force increase up to 30% if continues the scarcity-like situation.
Pune receives at present 12 TMC water from 4 dams include Khadakwasal, Varasgaon, Temghar and Panshet. All this dams have registered water levels under 30% which is considerably less than registered the water levels last year.
The 4 dams jointly have just 7.91 TMC water and is only 28% of the whole capacity, Pawar said. At present the water in the dams can give to the needs of the city not more than 6 months. The 4 dams had 82 % of water storage in last year. The district planning and development council (DPDC) meeting Pawar was talking to media on the sidelines.
Every day punecities will have to face 50 minutes to 1 hour load shedding from Wednesday suffering to the critical power conditions in the state due to the break in monsoon resulting in shortage of electricity. Though, 48 paise per unit the reliability charge paid by Puneites for the expediency of zero load-shedding. In effect, it will not be waived till the load shedding.
In pune area that fall in group A having lower transmission an distribution (T&D) loss and high compilation effectiveness such as Parvati, Shivajinagar, Padmavati, Bund Garden and Kothrud divisions will have 50 minutes load-shedding. Areas in group B having higher T&D loss and lower collection capacity include Pimpri, Bhosari, Rasta Peth and Ahmednagar road division will have 1 hour load-shedding.
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) said the load-shedding will be a provisional measure in Pune.The implementation of load-shedding will be on the rotation basis between 6.45 am to 5.30 pm. This timing allowed according to the revised load-shedding protocol, which is fixed by the MERC (Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission).
4 responses so far
1 Vijay ~ Aug 5, 2008 at 2:27 pm
One Hour Load Shedding is less for Pune City, I think Pune and Mumbai should have more Load Shedding. Why only rest of the cities should take the burn of 8 hrs Load Shedding. Specially in Vidharb 95% of cities are having 8 hrs of load shedding.
Dont know why India is called as developing nation????????????
2 swap ~ Aug 27, 2008 at 8:53 pm
This is the saddest story of maharashtra that we couldn’t build one more dam like KOYANA.
3 Arvind ~ Jul 1, 2009 at 9:48 pm
In Pune urgent measures for rain is required may be cloud seeding etc.As the city is expanding , new dams also required. Hope Govt will take urgent measures.
4 Arvind Patole ~ Jul 16, 2009 at 12:01 am
OK, all Dams put to gather have water capacity of 30%, Meaning we are still way below our normal requirement, then why was 400 cusecs of water released from Kadakwasla dam yesterday, The rain were good over most part of Pune district in the past 2-3 days, hence agriculture need were sufficed.The news was Kadakwasla dam had approx 70% water, so was there any need for this release. We should try and save what we have for the future and not plan to save what we don’t have. One bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. When will the officials wake up to the situation, simply by enforcing 20% and 40% water cut will not help if they have their ways and release water at the wimps of some bureaucrats.
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