Where to find tomorrow's planned power cut list

A planned shutdown is the one kind of power cut you are supposed to know about in advance. Somebody at the discom decided days ago that a transformer in your block would be opened up at 11 tomorrow morning, and wrote it into a list. If you had seen that list you would have charged the inverter, filled the overhead tank and moved the work call.

Whether you can see it depends almost entirely on which company supplies your house. On the morning of 9 October 2026 we opened the shutdown pages of the discoms serving India's biggest cities. Two Delhi companies already had Saturday's list up, area by area. Tamil Nadu's sits behind an image code, one circle at a time. Jaipur's is a running log of the day's cuts, not a forecast. Bengaluru's discom publishes no list at all. This guide is what we found, and what the rules say each of them owes you.

Why the power is switched off on purpose

The phrase “maintenance work” on a shutdown notice sounds vague, but the lists themselves are quite specific. BSES Rajdhani's schedule for South and West Delhi for Saturday 10 October has 88 entries. Fifty-seven of them are preventive maintenance on distribution transformers: the boxes on poles and plinths that step 11,000 volts down to the 230 your house uses. The rest are an 11 kV feeder taken out for tree trimming in Saket, ring main units being cleaned, new low-tension circuits being laid, a transformer flagged for low oil, another replaced outright.

Tata Power-DDL's list for North Delhi on the same day is shorter and reads the same way: “planned maintenance”, “bare conductor replacement”, “DT replacement”, “HT ABC jointing”, “release of new connection”. That last one surprises people. When a new building is connected, the line feeding it often has to be made dead first, so a neighbour's new meter can mean a few hours without power for the whole lane.

None of this work can be done on a live 11 kV line with any safety, and most of it is what stops the unplanned cut later. An overheating transformer that is opened, cleaned and topped up in October is less likely to blow its fuse on a May evening. A branch cut back from the conductor now does not bring the line down in the first monsoon storm.

There is also a season to it. In the month up to 9 October, 156 of the entries in Jaipur discom JVVNL's outage log give Diwali or Deepawali maintenance as the reason: lines and substations cleared before the festival load arrives. If your area seems to lose power every other afternoon in early October, this is usually why.

And it happens in daylight for a reason. Delhi's, Karnataka's and Rajasthan's rules all say a planned shutdown should end with supply restored by 6 pm, so the work stays out of the evening peak.

How much notice your discom has to give

The national floor is thin. The Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020, made by the Ministry of Power, say in rule 16(3) only that “the details of scheduled power outages shall be informed to the consumers.” There is no number of hours, and no mention of how. The same rule, at 16(4)(d), asks discoms to put feeder-wise outage data on their websites. That is a record of cuts after they happen, not a warning before.

The numbers that bind are your state regulator's. They vary more than you might expect: from a full week of notice in Maharashtra to “wherever possible” in Tamil Nadu.

A few details matter more than they look. Maharashtra's one-week rule, regulation 18.3 of MERC's 2021 Supply Code and Standards of Performance Regulations, covers every licensee in the state: MSEDCL in Pune and Nashik, and also the Mumbai licensees. Rajasthan's rule, in Schedule-I of RERC's 2021 Standards of Performance Regulations, is the most detailed in the country. Notice has to go out in the local paper or on the discom's website, and by SMS to registered mobile numbers. Rural feeders may be shut only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and industrial feeders only on the local weekly off day.

Some of these limits carry money. Karnataka's 2022 regulations pay ₹200 to each affected consumer when a planned cut runs past 12 hours or past 6 pm. Kerala's, revised in March 2026, pay ₹100 for each time a scheduled outage overruns its limit. Rajasthan lists both a missed 24-hour notice and a cut longer than 7 hours as defaults that earn compensation. The amounts and how to claim them are on our power cut compensation page.

We could not pin down which regulation sets the notice period in Telangana, so rather than guess, we have left it out of the table.

Discom by discom: where the list actually is

Everything below was checked on the discom's own website on 9 October 2026, between about 11 am and 12:30 pm. These pages change without notice, so if one has moved, tell us.

Delhi: the lists that work

If you want to know what a useful shutdown list looks like, it's BSES Rajdhani's. Choose a date and a division (there are 22, from Najafgarh to Nizamuddin) and you get a table: division, time window, reason, and the area in the discom's own words, often down to the block. The date menu ran to Saturday, so a Friday-morning reader could plan the weekend. It also keeps old dates, which is useful if you need to prove that a cut was, or was not, on the schedule.

Tata Power-DDL's Scheduled Outage page does the same for North Delhi, with the zone number, the work, start and end time, and total hours. Its entries name parts of colonies, such as part of Gokhale Market or part of H-Block, which is about as precise as these lists get.

We could not find an equivalent page on the BSES Yamuna website for East and Central Delhi.

Chennai and Tamil Nadu: the list is there, if you can get to it

TNPDCL, the company that used to be called TANGEDCO, publishes its planned shutdowns on its own website. Open the page, choose your circle from a list of more than forty, type the number shown in the image and press Submit. Chennai is split into Chennai South I, Chennai South II, Chennai Central, Chennai North and Chennai West; the suburbs may sit under Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram or Tiruvallur.

The image code means you have to check it yourself, every time; nobody can copy it into an alert for you. If your area is not on it and the power is out, it is a fault, not a shutdown: report it to Minnagam, TNPDCL's call centre, on 94987 94987 with your service connection number. Our Chennai page keeps these steps and the live reports in one place.

Bengaluru and Hyderabad: no list to find

BESCOM does not publish a list of planned shutdowns on its website. When we checked on 25 September and again on 9 October, its outage page carried only a PDF log of load-shedding: 12 grid load-shedding events in April and July 2026, totalling 32 hours and 6 minutes, put down to low grid frequency. That is a record of what happened, not notice of what will.

So in Bengaluru, the practical route is to ask. Call 1912, BESCOM's complaint line, with your account ID and ask whether your area is under planned maintenance, or ask the same in the BESCOM Mithra app. We keep those steps on our Bengaluru page.

TGSPDCL's redesigned website has a “Planned Outages” link in its menu, which is promising. On 9 October the page behind it returned an access error, so for now Hyderabad readers have nothing on the discom's website to check.

Jaipur, Kerala, Maharashtra and Kolkata

JVVNL's home page has a link marked बिजली बंद सूचना, which opens a feeder outage table. It is detailed: circle, sub-division, substation, feeder, start and end time, hours, location, the reason, and whether the cut was planned. On 9 October it held about 2,100 entries going back to 8 September. But the newest were for that day. Read it in the morning and you will see the afternoon's work; you will not see tomorrow's.

The same log shows something the rules would not lead you to expect. Rajasthan's regulation allows planned shutdowns on urban feeders only on Tuesdays and Fridays. Yet in the month to 9 October, JVVNL's own entries for its two Jaipur city circles record planned shutdowns on every day of the week: 132 on Mondays, 159 on Wednesdays, 175 on Thursdays, and 102 on Saturdays. Some of those rows are substation work rather than feeders, and some will be emergencies logged as planned. Even so, if your Jaipur colony keeps losing power on a Monday “for maintenance”, it is fair to ask why.

KSEB's website has a “Know Your Outage” page that asks for your consumer number. There is no area-wise public list. Without one, Kerala's 24-hour notice depends on KSEB reaching you, so the mobile number it has on file for you is what matters.

We found no shutdown list on MSEDCL's website, which is odd for the state with the longest notice rule. With no list to check, the week's notice has to reach you some other way, and the dependable way is a mobile number MSEDCL has on file. If it doesn't have yours, register it: send an SMS reading MREG followed by your 12-digit consumer number to 9930399303. MSEDCL says registration takes up to 24 hours.

CESC's website in Kolkata does not carry a shutdown list either. Its home page offers supply-off reporting and a WhatsApp number, 74390 01912.

If your discom publishes nothing

You can still avoid being caught out. In rough order of usefulness:

1. Make sure the discom has your mobile number. Rajasthan's rule requires notice by SMS to registered numbers, and no discom can text a number it doesn't have. If your number changed, or the connection is in a landlord's name, the notice is going to someone else's phone.
2. Ask the helpline the day before. In most states that is 1912. Give your consumer number and ask whether your area is on tomorrow's shutdown list. Someone at the discom planned that work, so the helpline or your local section office can usually tell you even when the website says nothing.
3. Read the local paper's city page. Tamil Nadu's regulation names local newspapers outright, and Rajasthan's lists them first. City pages regularly carry the discoms' shutdown lists for the next day.
4. Note the time a planned cut ends. If the power has not come back by then, it has stopped being a planned shutdown and become a fault you can complain about.

And check the live map before you assume. If the whole area went off at 10 am on a weekday and came back at 2, it was most likely planned. If it is only your lane, it probably was not.

When a planned cut runs late

A notice is a promise about when the power comes back, as well as when it goes. In Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala and Rajasthan, a planned cut that overruns its limit is a compensable default, not just bad luck. Complain once the announced end time has passed, and write down when it actually returned. Our guide to filing a power cut complaint walks through it.

If supply came back with a surge or a sag that damaged something, that is a separate claim with its own evidence. See how appliance damage compensation works.

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