Following the recent natural disaster that heavily damaged infrastructure, power supply was largely restored across the Dharampur region in Mandi district yesterday, bringing much-needed relief to residents.
Rain disaster on Monday night had caused significant damage to the area’s power system, affecting a major 33 kV sub-station, 170 transformers and eight km of high tension (HT) lines and 9.5 km of low tension (LT) lines.
Providing details of the restoration efforts, Santosh Kumar Sharma, Superintending Engineer of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board at Dharampur, stated that the department’s technical teams worked round-the-clock to restore power in the affected areas.
According to Sharma, 167 out of the 170 damaged transformers have been reactivated. Additionally, the damag