The reduction of power cuts to one hour, which was in force in Hyderabad and Secunderabad from the first week of August, has proved to be short-lived with the government reverting to the three-hour cuts from Tuesday.
“The power supply situation has deteriorated.
There is no alternative for us but to revert to three-hour power cuts,” an official of the Central Power Distribution Company Limited said.
The situation in corporations and towns is also precarious.
Though the outage is for three hours in municipal corporations, an extra one to two hours of outage is the norm.
There is fear that power cuts may extend to four to five hours in cities like Vijayawada, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry and Warangal.
In municipal towns, the official power cut is for six hours and in villages for eight hours but unofficial cuts are more.
The TRS is set to stage a dharna in front of the Transco office on Tuesday demanding seven hours of continuous power for agricultural pumpsets.
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