Bangalore Sweatbox

 
I found out last week that my company will send me to Bangalore for ten days in July.

Sounds like fun:

Now, power cuts scar 'Brand Bangalore'

Financial Express, 10 April 2006

BANGALORE: Brand Bangalore, plagued by notorious traffic snarls and pot-holed roads, has added one more feather to its infamous cap — frequent power outages. With power demand peaking on the back of mushrooming new companies and surging population, the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (KPTCL) has started feeling the heat this summer like never before.

Power requirement in the Bangalore circle is growing at a rapid pace....

Justifying power cuts, KPTCL sources said the failure of major central and state power generating stations in the southern grid had plunged all southern states, including Karnataka, into crisis. The state is facing shortage of nearly 18 million units a day. However, official sources said KPTCL had floated tenders for generation of additional 200 mw in March for the summer months, but had received no response. The said proposal was too short-term for private power generating companies. Hence, no one has shown interest, sources disclosed.