Electricity Minister P. Thangamani on Sunday said that while power supply had been restored in municipal and town panchayat limits in cyclone-hit districts, it would take another week to restore supply in rural areas.
The restoration work in rural areas is progressing at a fast pace, and villages are expected to get electricity supply in a phased manner within a week, the Minister told mediapersons in Salem. He was in the city to hand over a solatium to the kin of C. Murugesan, a Tangedco worker hailing from Manuvakattupalayam village, who was electrocuted while working in cyclone-hit Pudukottai district.