Mohali, May 31 -- Residents of the district have been at the receiving end due to frequent power cuts over the past 10 days.

With the contractual staff being on strike since May 20, unscheduled power cuts are being witnessed at regular intervals in various parts.

Outages are affecting residents across Mohali city, Kharar, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi, Nayagaon and New Chandigarh.

Apart from acute staff shortage, inadequate infrastructure, poor maintenance and failure to restructure staff as per consumer growth are worsening the district's power woes.

Overloaded power transformers, distribution and transmission lines as well as breakdowns in the infrastructure have exacerbated the situation.

As per the available record, many 11KV lines are ov...