Ludhiana, May 28 -- With temperatures soaring past 43degC and electricity demand rising sharply across Ludhiana, the slow pace of PSPCL's Rs.99-crore power infrastructure upgrade project has come under focus amid increasing transformer failures, snapping wires and recurring power faults in several parts of the city.

The project, launched earlier this year, aims to replace hazardous dangling wires, strengthen ageing distribution lines and improve supply reliability by installing insulated aerial bunched cables (ABC) in vulnerable localities. However, despite mounting summer pressure on the network, execution on the ground remains slow as power officials struggle to secure long shutdown windows needed for technical work.

Power officials s...