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Speaking to the reporters he said that courses of action had been made to get an extra 900 MW of energy through tendering process for the summer.
He blamed the current spate of power cuts in Bengaluru due to harm to power cables by different utilities, for example, the BBMP, BMRCL, and BWWSB. He charged that they had not taken authorization from the power utility for their work, which brought about harm to the cables.
The Energy Department had now issued strict guidelines against conceding line clearance for any such works till the end of summer, he said.
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