Patna, April 12: The power situation in the capital showed signs of improvement today after electricity generation started at the Talcher’s unit-1 and Kanti thermal power plants but the crisis situation persisted in the rest of the state because of the poor power supply from the central sector.

Inadequate supply from the central sector has been the major factor behind the power crisis in the state for over a month now. For, the state is heavily dependent on National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plants, which were hit by technical snag and protests. The situations worsened with NTPC units at Kahalgaon and Farakka going for scheduled maintenance.

The state, which has been getting around 700MW to 800MW power for the past one month (barring a few days, when it received more than 1,000MW from the central sector) received 1,020MW to 1,030MW in the afternoon today.

“The power supply has improved a bit today compared to yesterday, when the state received 730MW against 1,692MW-1,722MW of scheduled central sector allocation. The situation has improved after power generation at Talcher and Kanti started again,” Bihar State Electricity Board spokesman H. R. Pandey told The Telegraph.

Bihar State Electricity Board had requested the NTPC yesterday to pay special attention to the state to reduce chances of breakdown and to rotate the scheduled maintenance of their plants so that power supply to the state was not hampered.

The board also asked the general managers of both the Barauni and Kanti thermal plants to pay special attention to their plants so that they could run without any interruption.

The residents of Patna are luckier than their counterparts in other districts on the power front. They face two to three hours of loadshedding on a rotation basis each day unlike those living in districts, who hardly get four to five hours of power supply in a day.