India, Aug. 13 -- Industrial units in Chakan have been grappling with severe power supply issues for months, prompting the Federation of Chakan Industries (FCI) to take up the matter with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL).

On August 8, FCI office bearers, Dilip Batwal and Vinod Jain, met MSEDCL managing director Lokesh Chandra and informed him that MSEDCL's infrastructure in Chakan is heavily overloaded, leading to power shortages, frequent failures, voltage fluctuations, and deep voltage drops even on express feeders.

These problems, they pointed out, are causing significant losses to industries because of higher machine maintenance costs, production losses, raw material wastage, and adverse effects on...