Let there be light on Krishna’s birthday

GURGAON: Fearing power cuts, organizers of Janamashtami festivities in the city are relying on heavy duty DG sets as back-up for Friday.
The city will have spectacular events such as the one in Gymkhana Club, Unitech Patio Club, Epicentre, Palms Club, and DLF Club. On Friday, every temple in the city will have a separate function where devotees will celebrate the birth of Lord Krishna.“The main function begins post- evening when a power cut is likely to ruin the function,” said an organizer in Sector 23.
At Sector 5 Sai Temple, which runs on the trust of residents, has arranged generator sets to make sure nothing goes wrong on Friday. “We have kept the generators just in case there is an emergency. We do have an inverter just in case there’s a power cut,” said Sapra, a trustee of Sai Temple.
The power back-up is a must for sustaining the electrical decorations and the special section made for children. The biggest event in Gurgaon will be held in Shri Prem Mandir on old Railway Road, where the organizers have included joy rides for children, in addition to religious tableaux. “All these arrangements take up a load of approximately 100KV, for which a commercial generator set has been deployed,” said an organizer of the event.
The organizers of small functions too are worried about the power cuts. “We have planned a small function on Friday for which we have hired a 20KV DG set. This will be activated only if the power goes off even as we hope there will be no power cut in the evening,” said Sharad Gupta, a resident of Sector 17.