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Sultry Dhaka drops into darkness

Staff Correspondent
Power supply to many areas of the city, including the Prime Minister's Office, went off yesterday evening, causing great inconvenience to people.
The supply remained snapped in most parts of Dhanmondi, Paribag, Kakrail, Karwan Bazar, Tejgaon, Dhaka University area and several in the old town places at the time of filing of this report at 9:00pm.
DESA officials said that power supply disruption will continue in those areas till Friday because a supply sub-station has developed a major technical fault.
At 4.15 pm yesterday, both the 132 kV power supply sub-stations at city's Ulan tripped abruptly. One of them was restored within an hour and the other after three hours.
The abrupt breakdown severely affected the power distribution network. At 9:00pm, there was a supply shortfall of around 30 megawatts in the affected areas.
The power suspension created serious problems in Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the intensive care unit, X-ray centres and other diagnostic points were without any power supply from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. Generators supplied electricity to administrative offices and operation theatres.
"We found a fault in one of the two oil-filled cable network running from Ulan to Dhanmondi and it would take a couple of days to repair it. Our engineers have been working round the clock to restore supply," a senior DESA official told The Daily Star last night.
In the absence of electricity, the intense heat of the summer made life miserable to city dwellers, especially in the central part of Dhaka. The Met office recorded city's temperature at 34.9 degrees Celsius.
The areas under the Ulan power grid including Mothertek, Taltala, Khilgaon, Kakrail, and Tejgaon were affected by the suspension of power
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supply.
The Power Development Board (PDB) officials told The Daily Star there was no power supply shortage. They blamed the officials of DESA for the sufferings of the city dwellers.
The city power supply has been dogged by frequent and disruptive load-shedding in the past few weeks.
According to DESA estimates, the level of recent load-shedding is between 100 to 150mw, while the usual demand for power in the city is between 1150 to 1200mw.