Shillong, May 3: Students struggling to study and small businesses facing daily losses are bearing the brunt of Dadenggre’s worsening power crisis, with residents reporting 10 to 20 unannounced electricity cuts every day.
With no fixed schedule for outages, households are facing repeated disruptions to daily activities and to their water supply, while shopkeepers and workshops reported mounting losses due to interrupted work hours.
Amid growing public anger, Dadenggre MLA Rupa M Marak of the opposition Trinamool Congress convened an urgent meeting yesterday with officials of SAI Computers (a private power distribution franchisee), Nokmas and local NGO representatives.
The company attributed the outages to technical faults in the local grid and said a detailed assessment is underway. Marak directed immediate corrective action to restore stable power.
The meeting also took up complaints of field workers allegedly collecting money from villagers for transformer repairs. Officials said such collections are unauthorised and asked residents not to pay. Concerns over rising tariffs and billing errors were also raised, with the agency promising corrective steps.
