March 5: The government may ask industrial consumers to agree to a two-day power holiday with many power traders who agreed to supply around 700 MW' every day backing off. With the onset of power crisis, the industrial units had been asked to reduce the demand for four hours which was later extended to one day recently. But with power traders refusing to keep their word, the power supply situation has become unmanageable. The Central Power Dis-com, which gives electricity to 35 per cent of industrial consumers, has started talks with industrialists to convince them to go for two-day holiday per week. "Apart from one day holiday that already exists, we are requesting them to take another day off till the situation return to normal," said a senior official of CPDCL. In other Discoms such as Southern Discom and Northern Discom supply restrictions in peak time have already been implemented. Most of the units have been asked to shut shop between 6 pm to 9 pm as it would be peak time for power consumption. The early morning power demand from the farm sector could be managed as most of the industrial units would not start by that time. At present, the power demand is hovering between 210 and 212 million units per day and the demand from agriculture pump-sets is the highest in the recent past. With elections round the corner, the government has also made it clear to power companies not to impose power cut to domestic and agriculture sectors. Despite the directive, unscheduled load-shedding is on the rise because of technical reasons. "We are not imposing a regular power cut in domestic sector but to maintain supply during the fluctuations sometimes our field staff would take up unscheduled load-shedding," said Mr Sudeerth Bhattacharya, chairman and managing director of AP Transco. Industrial estates have been asked to reduce their power demand by taking a break some time in a day in rotation. "For example, Balanagar, Jeedimetla, Suraram and Uppal industrial estates would have to reduce their demand by stopping their units for a while," said CPDCL official.