India, July 17 -- Residents across several parts of Bengaluru may face temporary power cuts on Thursday, as the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) undertakes essential maintenance activities. In a press note issued on Wednesday, Bescom announced that electricity supply will be disrupted from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in multiple neighbourhoods due to critical upgrades at one of its sub-stations.

The planned outage is to facilitate the replacement of outdated Electromechanical Differential and REF relays with modern Numerical relays on a 20 MVA power transformer at the 66/11 kV Yellar Bunde MUSS sub-station. Bescom officials said the upgrade is part of ongoing efforts to enhance the reliability and safety of the power distribut...