Bengaluru power cut alerts have been issued for more than 50 localities on October 31 as BESCOM carries out maintenance work at the Banashankari and Subramanyapura substations. The planned outages will take place in two separate time windows, according to information attributed to BESCOM by Vijay Karnataka.
Power supply from the Banashankari substation will be disrupted from 10 am to 1 pm. The Subramanyapura substation maintenance shutdown is scheduled from 2 pm to 5 pm. Residents and businesses in the affected areas have been asked to cooperate with the work.
The localities listed for the disruption include Katriguppe, Katriguppe Water Tank, Sita Circle, Bank Colony, Balaji Layout, IT Layout, Dwaraka Nagar, Veerabhadra Nagar, Girinagar, VHBC Layout in Girinagar, Katriguppe Main Road and areas near the Uttarahalli bus stand.
Other locations named in the notice include Church Road, the area around Shanti Niketan School, Hemavathi Water Supply Road, Gundu Muneswara Temple Road, Raja Gardenia, Paduka Mandir Road, JHBC Layout, MS Krishna Mill, Nagappa Layout, Mole Factory Road, Hindustan Granite Road, Agarbatti Factory Road, Krishnappa Layout, Maruti Layout, Vitthal Nagar and Samruddhi Layout.
The Subramanyapura-related list includes Kumaraswamy Layout, Yadla Nagar, Vasanthapura Slum, Kanaka Layout, Marasandra locality, Ramachandrappa Layout, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar KSDP Quarters, Gubbalala, Spring Layout, Swamy Palya Road, Uttarahalli, the area around Pratyangira Temple, BHCS Layout, Manjunath Nagar, Canara Bank Colony, Sapthagiri Layout, areas near BIPS School, Gowdanapalya and Prestige Lake Ridge.
Planned substation maintenance can require temporary shutdowns to allow work on the electricity distribution network. The timing means households, shops, schools and other establishments in the affected localities may need to plan for interruptions during the specified periods. BESCOM’s notice, as reported by Vijay Karnataka, does not indicate that the disruption will extend beyond the stated maintenance windows. The utility has requested public cooperation during the work.
