Power supply on two 11 kV feeders serving the Pandeypur–Ledhupur belt was taken down for two hours on Thursday so Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam crews could shift poles and lines underground for a Public Works Department road-widening job.
Executive engineer Virendra Singh of the Urban Electricity Construction Division-II said the shutdown ran from 11 am to 1 pm on 24 September. The feeders named were the 11 kV Ashapur feeder from Ledhupur substation and the 11 kV Bhakti Nagar feeder from Daulatpur substation. During the window, teams planned line and pole shifting, charging checks and cable hosting on stretches where the widening alignment cuts through existing overhead gear.
The PWD road-widening work cited for the cut covers the Kali Mata Mandir–Azamgarh Road corridor and the Pandeypur–Ring Road stretch. Areas expected to feel the two-hour interruption included Rustampur, Paigambarpur, Natui, the Irrigation Department colony, Chandra Chaura, Ashapur, Amanpuri colony, Aktha village, Bajrang Nagar, Sanjay Nagar, GD Nagar, Bhakti Nagar and Vishwanathpuri, according to the construction division’s information.
Scheduled cable-shift shutdowns are different from fault trips. Households get a clocked window; clinics and kirana cold storage can run inverters for two hours if they charge ahead of 11 am. The risk is not the planned cut itself but any delay if a joint or cable end misbehaves during hosting. Field staff usually restore feeder by feeder once the underground section is landed and tested.
This notice sits alongside — not instead of — other Thursday electricity work in the city. A separate Tarna substation maintenance cut in Shivpur was scheduled for a longer daytime block. Readers should match their colony name to the feeder list above before assuming every Varuna-side outage on Thursday came from the same order.
Road widening that forces poles into the ground is a recurring monsoon-season chore on the Pandeypur approaches, where carriageway edges eat into older LT and HT alignments. If a particular gali stayed dark past 1 pm, that would be a restoration slip for the control room, not proof that the notified window itself changed.
Shops at Chandra Chaura and along the Ashapur approach often keep billing machines on single-phase supply; a late-morning two-hour cut is manageable if announced the previous evening. The construction division’s note did that job.
Consumers on the named colonies should also keep complaint numbers for Urban Electricity Construction Division-II and the local distribution control room handy if a pocket stays dark after 1 pm. A planned cable-hosting window can overrun when a joint fails the first charge test; that is a field contingency, not a silent extension of the public notice.
