Under fire after the recent deaths of a mother and her baby due to electrocution, the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) said that in the last year, since November 2022, it has conducted the maintenance of 4,768 11 KV feeders under its Feeder Maintenance Abhiyaana (FMA) out of the total 6,217 feeders present in its jurisdiction. This amounts to the conducting of maintenance of 76.69% of 11 KV feeders.
If the feeders that have been added to the network in the last one year are excluded, then Bescom claims that maintenance work on around 97% of 11 KV feeders have been conducted.
After the recent electrocution of 23-year-old Soundharya and her nine-month-old daughter near Hope Farm from a live wire that had snapped, the public has been demanding an audit of the electrical infrastructure in the city. The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) also mandates the Safety or Technical Audit of 11 KV feeders including Distribution Transformer Centres (DTC) to be undertaken by distribution licensees at least once every year.
