💡 Power cuts in Attapur every evening between 7 and 8, is this a schedule now?

Around 7 pm the power goes in our part of Attapur and it comes back a little before 8. This has now happened on every evening since the eleventh, and I have started noting it on my phone because I did not believe it myself, and my wife thought I was exaggerating until she saw the screenshots side by side. Monday it went at 7:04 and returned at 7:52. Tuesday it was 7:01 to 7:58. Yesterday it was 6:58 to 7:47. The inverter in our flat gives up around the forty minute mark, so by the time the lights return we are usually sitting in the dark with the phones at 20 percent. Nobody has put up a notice, nobody from the electricity office has messaged, and the helpline number gives the same recorded line about maintenance work that was announced for another area. I asked in our building WhatsApp group and eleven people replied within ten minutes, all saying the same thing, so it is not just our floor. On the Mehdipatnam side, where my cousin lives, the lights stay on through the same hour. He checked with two friends in Tolichowki as well and they said the same. So it is our stretch of lanes behind the mosque and the petrol pump that is going dark, and only in the evening, when everyone is cooking, the kids are trying to study, and half the street is waiting to charge a phone. The tea shop owner at the corner says the transformer there has been making a humming noise since the summer and he has already stopped keeping milk in his fridge after 6 pm. The aunty on the ground floor has stopped cooking dinner before 8 pm because she is scared of the gas flame in the dark, and her grandson now does his homework at the staircase landing where the corridor light has a battery backup. That is where things stand as of tonight.

Try the 1912 helpline and ask for a complaint number instead of only reporting it. Last year I rang about an evening cut near Masab Tank and the recorded line said nothing, but the operator gave me a number and a lineman came the next morning. He said the pattern was a fuse on the pole. Keep your screenshots handy, he asked to see them.

The forty minute inverter detail is familiar. Ours in Nampally dies at the same mark, and I finally swapped the battery in June, 6,800 rupees, because it was tired anyway. It does not fix the cuts but at least the fan runs for the full hour now. Your ground floor aunty and the gas flame worries me more, maybe get her a small rechargeable lamp for the kitchen.

Are you sure it is a fault and not load shedding? Last summer our lane in Bandlaguda lost power at nearly the same time every evening, and it turned out one feeder was being switched off to keep another one running. Nobody announced it there either. It could be different in Attapur, but for me the hourly pattern gave it away. Did the cuts stay the same length after the eleventh?

The humming transformer the tea shop owner mentioned is what I would chase. Ours in Kismatpura hummed for months before it blew one night in May and we had no power for almost a full day. I would show the section office a short video of the noise, since they seem to treat that as a safety complaint, which gets a faster visit. Hope the aunty and her grandson are managing.

Same hour, same story near Rajendranagar for about two weeks in July. The transformer was overloaded because a new apartment block had been connected to it. They swapped it after a few of us went to the section office together with a printout of the outage times. Keep noting your timings the way you are doing, that list is the only thing the officer will actually look at.