kolkata cesc repair and restoration teams will be escorted by local police to ensure they dont face threats hijack attempts and assaults from angry citizens in localities that have been without power for over 100 hours also former civic councillors who are now ward coordinators will prioritise the work to prevent allegations of arbitrary action on the part of workmen the decision to attach a police team with cesc repair teams follows multiple incidents over the last couple of days including allegations of assault at budge budge and maheshtala forcibly keeping a line repairman hostage in a locality off em bypass till a cesc team arrived to reconnect power and reports from behala and elsewhere of teams being whisked away by youths to get power supply to their localities restored first from now cesc teams will assemble at local police stations and start working under police protection ward coordinators will identify the area that needs to be prioritised particularly in areas like jadavpurjodhpur park golf green lake gardens baghajatin bansdroni netaji nagar and localities off em bypass like madurdaha patuli and mukundapur a civic official said cesc officials on monday met firhad hakim the chairperson of the board of administrator at the civic body to express their concerns over the safety of the forcewith people getting desperate for power cesc teams have been instructed to concentrate on restoration leaving proper repairs for later while this has ensured quicker restoration of supply officials cautioned that it was a calculated risk to alleviate the immediate suffering while hoping that a spike in demand or a norwester wouldnt lead to the tripping of the distribution networkthe damage is so extensive and repairs so timeconsuming that we will do it in phases over days and even months our immediate effort is to ensure that people get back electricity connection so that they can at least use fans and lights so we are setting aside the faulty section and reconnecting the line temporarily we are requesting consumers not to use 15amp gadgets like acs and ovens till proper repairs are done said a cesc officialon monday power was restored at lake gardens behala chowrasta james long sarani behala silpara kasba baguiati dum dum park and parts of survey park patuli and mukundapur work is under way at panchashayar survey park and naktala after power is restored to all the homes the teams would begin work on repairs through miniswitchoffs to bolster the network hundreds of poles and several kilometres of overhead cables have been damaged the quantum is beyond what we keep in reserve for fault repairs these and other equipment will have to be sourcedpurchased for proper repairs that is timeconsuming and can be done over weeks and months the official explained