As the occurrence of local faults increases during rainfall, posing a risk of accidents, he instructed electrical workers involved in distribution to exercise caution and follow specific precautions to prevent accidents.
In a statement Varun Reddy said last year between January and May, there were 10,558 hours of outages, while this year the outages came down to 7262 hours. "We have been able to reduce the time period of outages by 3,296 hours, an decrease of 31. 22 percent,"he said.