Agartala, Dec 29 (TIWN): Frequent load-shedding returned to haunt the people of Tripura with over two-hour power cut in every morning and evening for past few days. Load shedding in Tripura has made life miserable as Tripura’s own power generation is down to its half of total capacity during past few days.

“Palatana and Rukhia power plants were unable to produce power as per the state’s demand due to foggy morning over past few days. The highest demand of power was recorded 201 MW on Sunday. But the power plants were hardly able to generate half of its demand”, said Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD)- Sunil Kumar Roy over telephone. He further assured that load-shedding will be reduced once whether become normal in the state.

The TSECL sources added the deficit of power has forced the TSECL to maintain load-shedding across the state with increased timing, said Roy.

As the situation stands, Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) has started massive load shedding to maintain the deficit in power supply. Due to frequent fault in the production units, TSECL has increased the load shedding time to one and half hours, but due to continuous faults in the power generation units, the people of Tripura have been facing unprecedented power-cut problem for last few days.

TSECL sources said that the TSECL could not supply the power as per state's highest power demand. As a result, TSECL has started frequent load shedding almost in entire state.