India, Jan. 25 -- More than 24 hours after high-velocity winds accompanied by heavy rain caused extensive damages to electricity infrastructure, uprooting trees, poles and snapping overhead lines, officials managed to restore the supply across Chandigarh, Panchkula, Kalka and Mohali on Saturday. Residents said that their routine works were affected due to the outage. They also said that even after the restoration work, they continued to face frequent outages due to sparking and short circuits in damaged poles.

Sunil Vashisth, president of the Residents Welfare and Development Association in Sector 15 of Panchkula, said residents faced acute hardship as inverter batteries were exhausted due to the long outage.

Rakesh Aggarwal, a member o...