SPPU students take steps to adjust to routine power cuts on campus

Shravani Mestry, another final-year English literature student, said students on campus have become more conscious. “We keep a reserve of sorts. The bottles of drinking water are kept filled as well as the buckets. Power banks and our phones are fully charged. In fact, many students also get the main notes printed so that they have something if they are unable to access online resources. It at least does not catch us completely off-guard if the power supply goes,” she said.

Mahesh Rahane, another student who resides in the hostel on campus, said, “The situation is not getting better. It makes studying difficult. In the evenings we had to use candles to study for internal exams. Not much seems to have been done to improve our stay in hostels despite regular communication. In fact, some have been thinking of moving out, looking for affordable places off-campus.”

Registrar Prafulla Pawar, who said the power cut on Tuesday night was a long one, added that such incidents are sporadic. “Such small faults can occur due to heavy rain. As for measures, one can only do so much. We will try to not let it happen again,” he said.