Pune: Residents of Azadnagar in Wanowrie faced prolonged power outage lasting nearly 21 hours after a tree fell on the overhead electricity lines on SRPF grounds on Monday evening. The incident, which occurred around 5 pm on Monday, left the area without electricity supply, forcing residents to rely on inverters to meet their power needs. However, as the outage persisted till 1.
50 pm on Tuesday, many found themselves struggling to cope with the situation. The area, home to a few housing societies, a hospital, and several independent buildings, has a significant population of retired defence personnel and senior citizens, some of whom require oxygen support. Devesh Jain, a resident of Naren Hills housing society, said, "My mother requires constant oxygen support, and with such long power outage it was difficult to keep the oxygen concentrator running on inverter supply.
Apart from my mother, there are three senior residents who require oxygen support. They faced a very tough time because of the power cut." Residents of housing societies such as Kapil Woodrow, Shreshay Apartment, Akshay Classic, Manuchandra, Barkat Terrace, Aura Solace, Naren Hills, Disney Park, and other independent buildings in the area get their electricity supply from MSEDCL's Ramtekdi substation.
They said that heavy rain in the area often results in falling of trees on overhead electrical lines or transformer blast, leading to long outage. Once gone, power does not resume either for six hours or 12 hours .