India, June 16 -- LUCKNOW Despite a drop in temperature, Lucknow continued to reel under prolonged power cuts on Sunday night. With electricity demand at around 1950 mw, widespread outages reported in the city were attributed to rostering by over 30 sub stations as a precautionary measure to protect overloaded transformers from failure.

According to officials of Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA), the rostering was carried out to manage the load and avoid damage to critical infrastructure. "While the temperature has gone down, infrastructure remains under stress due to previous overloads. We are trying to balance supply to prevent long-term damage to equipment," said a senior official.

However, many citizens were unconvinc...