'Do not put unauthorised load on power distribution system'

Haryana power discoms today asked consumers to refrain from putting unauthorised load on the electricity distribution system to get uninterrupted power supply.
"Unauthorised extension of load by consumers is the main reason of local interruptions in power supply," a spokesman for Haryana power utilities said here.
"It includes low voltage, tripping, break downs, damage to transformers that is why it is declared offence under the Electricity Act and hence it invites heavy penalty," he said.
"But consumers, being unaware of this fact, extend load... by installing additional gadgets without giving any intimation to discoms -- Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam," he said.

"The unauthorised extension of load may create hurdles in continuity of quality power supply and as on record, the load is within limit it becomes difficult for the officials to get a scheme of augmentation of capacity approved," he said.
For getting a qualitative regular power supply, the farmers should also get sanctioned their load from the office concerned to increase load on their tube wells so that overloading of the system could be avoided, he said.