Gurugram, April 25 -- At least 11 residential societies between Sector 84 to 102 along the Dwarka Expressway and the Golf Course Extension Road have been facing frequent and long power outages for the last four to five days either due to faults or maintenance-related issues, alleged residents on Friday. According to residents, the outages continued for around five hours, longer than what the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) officials informed them through messages on WhatsApp groups. Praveen Thakur, a resident of Conscient Habitat in Sector 99A, said, "The cause of these outages is not clear yet. At least five residential societies in Sector 99 along with Garhi Colony and Garhi village were affected from these outages," he said. Santosh Singh, a resident of a Pareena Laxmi society in Sector 99A, said that outages last an hour longer than what was communicated to them by discom officials. Sunil Sarin, a resident of Imperial Garden in Sector 102 and a co-convener of the citizen-led group, Dwarka Expressway Gurugram Development Authority, said at least 1,500 families living in three societies in the sector are affected and the outages have occurred for the last eight to ten days. A DHBVN official said that the outages are a result of tree pruning and several other maintenance works being carried out. "However, the outages are not as long as described by the residence," he said, adding that alerts are always sent to them on groups about the scheduled outages lasting one to two hours. Residents of Golf Drive society in Sector 63 alleged that a 24-hour long outage took place on Thursday, due to faults in a 11kV underground feeder supplying power from a 66 kV substation in Sector 56 which was damaged several days back due to digging work. Sattar Khan, DHBVN executive engineer, Badshahpur, said the teams are on the ground and the faulty feeder will be fixed. "The damaged materials will be replaced. We will also be looking into the society's internal infrastructure to see if there are any faults there," he said, adding that the outage in Sector 63 was due to a major fault in the feeder, which took place all of a sudden, hence no prior alert could be sent for them....