Power Outage In Pune: When Will Electricity Resume For Hinjawadi IT Firms? How Long Will Work From Home Continue?

While the issue of persistent waterlogging is ongoing in Hinjawadi, the power cut since Sunday has impacted over 52,000 consumers. As of now, the power in the residential area has resumed, but the power in the MIDC and Hinjawadi IT Firms has not resumed yet.

According to MSEDCL, a major power outage occurred on Sunday afternoon due to a fault in the 220 kV Infosys to 220 kV Pegasus extra high voltage underground power cable of the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (Mahapareshan) near the Hinjewadi Phase-2 metro station.

As a result, power supply to over 52,000 consumers under MSEDCL's Ganeshkhind and Pune Rural divisions was disrupted from Sunday afternoon.

When will the power supply resume?

MSEDCL swiftly acted on a war footing and restored supply to all low-tension consumers in phases through alternative routes by early Monday morning.

However, they have informed that restoration of supply to some high-tension consumers will take longer and the complete restoration of power is likely to be completed by Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, Panvanjit Mane, President of Forum for IT Employees (FITE), had appealed that in the event of a power outage, IT firms should allow their employees to work from home.

Accordingly, some IT firms have given WFH to employees, and it is likely to continue till the power supply resumes.