Two components that should have been a priority with the PDD are dismally neglected. One is transformer maintenance and the second is disaster management cell. The rate of transformer faults is very high. The reason is absence of maintenance system. A damaged transformer has to be put in junk for months after which its turn comes for repair. And more often than not lack of technical expertise with the department, intervention of various national level organizations has to be sought at an exorbitant rate. Periodical tests and repairs is a distant cry. Secondly there is no disaster management cell with PDD which would be pressed into service in emergency cases. Normally power distribution system in all states has a disaster management cell that provides alternate power line if there is major breakdown that would take many days to repair. In our state a fault remains a fault as long as it is not repaired which may take any number of days or weeks.
PDD has to reform; it has to adapt to modern methods of power distribution and allied matters. It has to come out of old fashioned practices that have been discarded long back by other states. The concept of power supply has to change for our technicians and policy planners. It is not only generating more megawatts of power; it is actually managing the distribution of power where we are left behind. There is hardly a week or a fortnight when we are not required to raise issues about PDD in these columns. But we are yet to see the impact of public cry against mal-functioning of the PDD.
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