India, Sept. 6 -- Residents of nearly 1,500 flats at a high-rise in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension have been grappling with repeated power outages since Tuesday, with some forced to move out amid fears for vulnerable family members.

Officials of the Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited (PVVNL), the local discom, said the problem stemmed from internal equipment failures at KW Shristi, which has 1,468 flats across 11 towers and 28 shops. The discom maintained there was no disruption in its external power supply.

For many, the outage became more than an inconvenience.

A 30-year-old resident said he had to shift his ailing parents to his brother's home in Indirapuram after his father's oxygen concentrator stopped working. "I had to ...