Power cuts boost inverter sales

CHANDIGARH: Power cuts have made life of city residents miserable, especially with mercury refusing to plummet. This is has left city residents looking for other options to seek solace in the blistering heat. “Sales of inverters are at an all-time high, thanks to unprecedented 7-8 hour cuts in the city,” said M S Nayyar, an inverter dealer of the city.He also said, “Inverters sales have been doubled in the city as compared to May and it has led to increase in the prices by 10%.”
Although inverters come handy during power cuts, these too have limitations as after a few hours its batteries need to be recharged. It has encouraged people to find a way out to tackle this problem. “Service for inverters is very fast and within 24 hours the problems is rectified,” said Sumit Bansal, an inverter dealer in city.
Abhimanyu Sharma, who lives in southern part of the city, said, “Power cuts are a major problem in our area and I bought an inverter, but still we are facing problems, sometimes there is no power entire night and many times power goes off so frequent that inverter doesn’t get charged.”
Anand Sharma, a resident of Sector 35 said, “Earlier we were planning to purchase an inverter, but now frequency of the cuts have gone down. However if this problem crops up again I will surely get it installed at my home.”