At least 55% households in Uttar Pradesh faced three or more outages daily in July so far, with 82% facing outages anywhere between one and four hours, and 77% facing outages daily, a LocalCircles survey has found.
The first survey question asked respondents: “On average, how many times has power been going off in July so far (from the utility company) at your home each day?”
Of the 4,206 Uttar Pradesh residents who responded to this query, 77% indicated that they have been facing power outages daily this month; 55% of them indicated that they have been facing 3 or more power outages.
The data shows only 13% of respondents stated that “never or very rarely the power goes”. As for the rest, 19% of respondents indicated power outages happen 1- 2 times a day; 19% indicated it happens 3-5 times a day; 30% indicated 6-10 times; 6% over 20 times and 13% indicated that they “don’t know because we have 24×7 power backup”.
In the June 2023 survey, when 65% of UP households surveyed had indicated three or more outages in a day, in the July survey, the number is down to 55%.
LASTS 2-4 HOURS DAILY, SAY 36% HOUSEHOLDS
The survey next asked residents: “On average, how many hours of power outage (from the utility company) have you been experiencing each day at your home in the month of July?”
This query received 4,212 responses, with 36% indicating that they faced outages which lasted over 2 hours. The data shows that while 18% of respondents indicated that “never or very rarely power goes”; 46% stated it goes for “up to 2 hours”; and 36% stated it goes for “2-4 hours”.
In sum, 82% of UP residents are having to still face anywhere between 1 to 4 hours of power outages in July.
Compared to the June 2023 survey, which revealed that 74% of households in UP were facing power outages that lasted for over two hours daily, in July, only 36% of households indicated that they are still facing power outages for over two hours daily.
DEMOGRAPHICS
The survey received over 8,000 responses from citizens located in 51 districts of Uttar Pradesh. A total of 70% respondents were men, while 30% respondents were women. The survey was conducted via LocalCircles platform and all participants were validated citizens who had to be registered with LocalCircles to participate in this survey.
LocalCircles is a community social media platform that enables citizens and small businesses to escalate issues for policy and enforcement interventions and enables the Government to make policies that are citizen and small business centric.
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