Villagers in Nagavayal and Padathanpatti near Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district have reportedly gone without a regular electricity supply for 10 days, according to a report by Dinamalar. The claim has not been independently confirmed in the supplied material, and no response from the Tamil Nadu electricity utility or the state government is included.
The report said residents from the two villages surrounded an electricity-board office to protest what they described as the prolonged disruption. It attributed the account of the outage to the villagers and reported that they were seeking restoration of a reliable power supply.
Dinamalar also reported complaints from several other districts, including Tiruchirappalli, Pudukkottai, Karur, Tiruvallur and Tirunelveli. The reported problems included unannounced power cuts, low voltage and faults involving transformers. The supplied report does not identify the affected feeders, transformers, number of consumers or the duration of each disruption outside Sivaganga.
The reported incidents point to the importance of local distribution infrastructure in rural areas, where a fault in a transformer or feeder can affect an entire settlement. However, the available material does not establish whether the reported interruptions were caused by equipment failure, scheduled maintenance, weather-related damage, network overload or another operational issue.
Ravi Pachamuthu, president of the Indiya Jananayaka Katchi, was quoted in the report as saying that the continuing complaints were a matter of concern. He called for the Tamil Nadu government to immediately examine electricity-supply conditions in the affected districts and take steps to ensure a regular supply.
The report does not include a statement from the electricity board on the alleged 10-day disruption, the status of repairs, the number of affected households or a restoration timeline. It also does not provide official outage data or documentary evidence confirming the residents’ claims.
The next verifiable developments would be an official response from the electricity authorities, confirmation of the condition of the relevant transformers and feeders, and information on when reliable supply is expected to return to Nagavayal, Padathanpatti and other reported locations.
