Power supply restored in Ctg city

It took nearly 24 hours to mend the technical faults at the substation.

Due to unprecedented power outage, about 40 per cent of the entire city plunged into darkness at around 6.20pm on Tuesday.

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Sources said most of the grid substations in Chittagong are running by run-down and age-old transformers resulting in frequent power outage in the port city.

Poor maintenance and lack of initiatives to modernise the substations and replace the older transformers are also responsible for this.

Sources said at least four such incidents of major power failure deriving from technical glitches occurred in past four months.

On October 4, the Shikalbaha grid substation having 60-MW capacity tripped at around 4.00pm leaving the entire south Chittagong region including Cox's Bazar and Bandarban without power for nearly four hours, sources said.

Earlier on August 22, another technical malfunction occurred at Chittagong stadium substation killing three power development board (PDB) staff afterwards.