VARANASI: Electricity staff carried out leakage current checks around the Kabir Nagar and Beniyabagh substations on Saturday, November 7, 2026, while officials inspected the Bhelupur and Nagar Nigam substations ahead of the festival period. The new updates concern these four supply locations, extending the maintenance activity covered as reported earlier on dalimss.news at Nagwa, Shivala and Ayar.
For residents in Kabir Nagar, Beniyabagh and the other named supply areas, the immediate information is that checks took place. The posts from Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited do not announce scheduled interruption hours for Sunday, November 8. A household with an actual supply problem should report its own location rather than infer an outage timetable from the inspection photographs.
The distributor's official Varanasi account lists 1912 and 18004101912 as assistance numbers. When reporting a fault, identify the locality and supply installation as precisely as possible, and retain the complaint reference. The latest inspection posts give no common restoration deadline covering all four locations.
Where the November 7 checks took place
At the 33/11 kV Kabir Nagar substation area, employees checked electrical equipment and the surrounding premises for leakage current. The official Kabir Nagar account identifies the responsible urban distribution division as Chetmani. It describes identifying potential leakage and taking necessary safety precautions, with prevention of accidents, sparking, fire and breakdowns as the purpose.
The Kabir Nagar update was published at 11:01 pm IST on November 7. Its photographs show staff checking equipment, including an installation beside a street. The statement supplies no numerical test readings, defect total or number of consumers covered. It should therefore be read as a report of the work undertaken, without assuming that every installation throughout the neighbourhood has been certified safe.
At Beniyabagh, the utility describes similar leakage checks in the area of the 33/11 kV substation under the Chaukaghat urban distribution division. Two posts published on November 7 describe that location and the same type of checking. They are being treated here as one local operation, rather than counted as two separate maintenance programmes.
The later Beniyabagh update was published at 7:26 pm IST. Like the Kabir Nagar post, it links the activity to safe, uninterrupted supply but gives no household count or new restriction on electricity use.
At Bhelupur, the sub divisional officer made an unannounced inspection of the 33/11 kV substation under urban distribution division I. The official inspection statement says the feeder was found normal and staff were instructed to maintain supply during the coming festivals. The published timestamp for that update is 7:16 pm IST on November 7.
The Nagar Nigam substation inspection was undertaken by the superintending engineer of Varanasi's first circle. The utility's account, published at 6:01 pm IST, places the 33/11 kV installation under the Chaukaghat division. It says all feeders were normal during the inspection and records directions to personnel about maintaining festival supply.
What residents should do
Keep separate records for a new fault and an older unresolved complaint. The distributor's existing complaint form addressed to the executive engineer asks for the complainant's name, address, contact number if available, book or service connection number, and the original complaint number and date. It also asks for a brief description of the current problem.
The form provides for copies of earlier complaints and replies. Its acknowledgement section has spaces for a reference number, the receiving employee's name and designation, receipt date and target resolution time. Those details can help a resident follow a particular case. The form is an existing route for recording a grievance; Saturday's inspection updates introduce no new application charge or deadline.
For background on other local service matters, the earlier Phulwaria shutdown report concerned November 3, while the water and sewerage approvals report concerned different infrastructure. Neither supplies electricity interruption hours for the areas checked on November 7.
Standing precautions around electrical installations
The utility's standing safety guidance advises keeping clear of low or fallen wires and treating them as energised. It also warns people against entering substations or fenced electrical enclosures. Children should stay away from electrical equipment and from trees with power lines running through or close to their branches.
For homes, the same guidance advises against touching switches with wet hands, overloading a switchboard or using damaged cords. These are existing precautions relevant to the leakage checks, rather than new restrictions announced on Saturday. Inspection findings describe conditions observed at the time; residents should still report a later visible fault or supply problem through the distributor's assistance routes.
