Date : 15-09-2015
Bengaluru: Students, along with the residents of Cox Town, staged a protest holding lanterns outside the Bescom office at Robertson Road, Frazer Town on Monday September 14.
They demanded that the government should spare at least the study time and provide power supply to the students in the region.
They alleged that their preparations for exams have been affected owing to power cuts ranging up to 7 hours during the night.
Bengaluru is witnessing the city’s worst power crisis in 25 years – one that entails at least four hours of blackout every day in India’s IT capital.
The reason is the deficient monsoon which has also spelt crisis for Karnataka’s farmers and caught the government completely unprepared.
As of now, the reservoirs in the state’s hydel power plants have water up to only 33 per cent of their capacity, was informed by the Karnataka’s power minister DK Shivakumar.
