The Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) today admitted that the electricity position in the Capital was ``not comfortable'' with the tenuous output of Auriya power station of the Northern Grid and several other hydro stations. The power minister had hoped that the power situation would improve by Monday with engineers working round the clock on the Northern Grid. On Friday, Nath had hoped that the situation would improve over the weekend.

Dwarka, touted as Delhi's dream city of the future, remained without power for the second consecutive day today. ``The DVB claims that it has planned a 2-hr load-shedding rotational schedule. We have had no power since yesterday. The local and central complaint centre staff get angry with us when we ask when will the supply be restored. This is not fair,'' said Arun Kumar Sehrawat, a resident.

Narendra Nath (not to be confused with the state power minister), another resident of Dwarka, said that the DVB had provided connections to only four sectors in the sub-city and, of the four, two had been without power for two days. ``We cannot take this any more. Unauthorised colonies have power. Why doesn't our colony?'' he asked.

DVB spokesman Jagdish Kapoor said that there were 16 under-frequency operations today after which the situation became better. Load-shedding upto 100 MW had to be resorted to in industrial areas and the spokesman added that they would have to resort to it again during the peak hours if situation did not improve.

The maximum demand registered at 10 a.m. was 2,335 MW which was met despite problems, Kapoor claimed.The DVB, meanwhile, has attacked other member states of the Northern Grid for what it described as ``not disciplining themselves and acting in a spirit of cooperation in the wake of the crisis''. The Board said that in Delhi, it had installed 30 under-frequency relays as per the decisions taken at Northern Region Electricity Board (NREB)-level meetings. ``Unfortunately other member states have not installed even 25 per cent of the number we have,'' DVB spokesman Jagdish Kapoor said.

``However, the grid-managing agencies have not been able to get the other member states to do the same,'' he added. The Board in a statement said that Delhi was suffering long power-cuts because of lack of authority over the load dispatch management.