New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday launched the city’s first hotline maintenance vehicle that will enable electrical repairs without any supply shutdown. CM said similar vehicles would soon be deployed across the city.Speaking at an event in her Shalimar Bagh assembly constituency, Gupta said the Rs 1.5-crore vehicle would ensure that residents faced no inconvenience during repair of electrical faults. The vehicle, which will enable live line maintenance, was procured by Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, a discom that supplies power in north Delhi. “It comes with an insulated aerial boom (crane) for facilitating access to overhead lines while maintaining safe electrical isolation and a non-conductive work platform fibreglass bucket ensuring technicians’ safety during live line operations,” the discom stated. “The vehicle is equipped to perform critical tasks such as replacing insulators and conductors, repairing jumper connections and connectors, and pruning trees near energised lines, all while maintaining an uninterrupted electricity supply,” it added.Power minister Ashish Sood and Chadni Chowk MP Praveen Khandelwal were also present at the event. Sood said people endured hours-long shutdowns for power line repairs, but the hotline maintenance vehicles would end it.CM also inaugurated the underground electrical network project at the constituency. She said her govt aimed to expand the project in other parts of the city, especially in congested pockets of Chandni Chowk and Sadar Bazar. “The primary objective of the project is to enhance public safety and network reliability of supply by replacing the over 40-year-old overhead conductor and rail poles with underground cables,” Gupta said.
