Overview

• Rural residents in Surapur and Sultanpur report receiving just three hours of electricity daily due to overstretched distribution networks
• A viral video shows Energy Minister Arvind Kumar Sharma chanting religious slogans instead of addressing villagers’ power cut complaints
• The minister’s office published district-level data to highlight recent gains in peak power availability across key regions
• Officials assert that transformer replacements and feeder upgrades are under way, though no completion timeline has been provided
• Opposition parties warn that ongoing privatization plans could amplify outages and question the government’s accountability measures