Do electricity offices suffer power cuts?

bangalore: even as you fret and fume against power cuts, you can take comfort from the fact that even electricity offices make do without the vital `vitamin e'' everyday. kptc chairman v.p. baligar''s office has a generator. as he is always at important meetings with vips, ``his office has to rely on alternative sources when power fails'''', says a polite insider.an official at the kptc office (central) on malleswaram 13th cross clarifies the process of power cuts for power centres. ``if it is a feeder problem, then the kptc offices in the particular area will be automatically affected. if it is repair work, we try to localise the power cut, in which case the division and sub-division offices do not get affected. but if it is a grid failure, as happened on monday, then the entire city including all our offices are affected.'''' to handle cash transactions and computers at most kptc offices, the ups comes in handy. but the staff say they suffer like other ordinary residents. ``on monday, my room remained dark throughout the day and i could not do much work,'''' says a staff member from the kptc office (south division) at banashankari ii stage. ``we call up the service station when there is an unscheduled power cut to find out the reason,'''' she adds. at the kptc office (north division) in rajajinagar, staffers are amused. ``we sweat it out too and go for bouts of fresh air, like people in other offices. we do not have a ups.'''' kptc office (west division), however, has a ups system that can rescue them from a power cut for close to six hours. but at the chief engineer, metropolitan city office at kr circle, it''s the regular power cuts of two hours and intermittent half-hour, because they have neither a generator nor a ups. off-the-record: kptc staff sans power welcome cuts as a boon, and take many more breaks during work!