BESCOM appeals to farmers not to use Single-Phase Pump Sets in irrigation feeders at night

Pramesh S Jain 

The state government has committed to provide 3 phase power supply to agricultural pump sets for 4 hours in a day and 3 hours at night, further 24-hours power supply to rural households through Nirantara Jyothi Feeders (NJY).

Besides,through irrigation feeders single phase power supply has been provided to the farmhouses from 6 PM to 6 AM only for domestic purpose and also considering the interest of the students who are residing in farmhouses (apart from three hours 3 phase power) by doing open delta of feeders.

But,few farmers are using single-phase pump sets in the irrigation feeders at night,which led feeder tripping and interruptions in power supply.

Therefore BESCOM has appealed the farmers not to use single phase pump sets during this period (6PM to 6AM).