More than 15,000 industries based here have lost up to Rs.200 crore due to power cuts since the start of the summer season, officials said Friday.

The units are getting only three hours of power supply on an average for the past 20 days, say industrialists. "We were expecting the power cuts but not to this extent. There have been days when we got only 15 minutes of power supply in a day. The business has been affected a lot," said one.