Power supply cut off after transformer breaks down

Gulmi - The power supply to at least 250 households was cut off after a breakdown of the Daramkhola Micro Hydro Power Project transmitter here at Musikot municipality – 7.

The houses located at ward number one of the municipality plunged into darkness after the transmitter at Paudiamrai area burst into flames. 

The Project's Administrative Committee Chairman, Dharmendra Kumar Malla, said that it would take at least a week to repair the transmitter. The severance of the power supply in the area has shutdown businesses and factories.