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The officials claimed that they managed to reduce outages by 43.5 per cent in the 33 KV lines in the last five months.

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.