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| JK seeks additional quota of electricity in view of Amarnath pilgrimage | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 15: The state Government has requested to the BJP led NDA Government in the centre to increase power allocation to Jammu and Kashmir in view of the ensuing two-month long annualAmarnath pilgrimage.
Government circles said that the state authorities have conveyed to the centre that in view of the acute power shortage in the state coupled with breakdown of transformers in various parts of the Jammu and Samba districts Amarnath pilgrims could face lot of inconvenience and difficulties as a result of prolonged load shedding.
These circles said that the state Government is trying to initiate long term and short term measures for increasing power generation and till the time more power projects were constructed and commissioned the state needed increased quota from the central grid. They said besides the Amarnath pilgrimage, in which nearly six lakh pilgrims are to visit the holy mountain cave, the ongoing tourist season in the Kashmir valley may get wrecked if the centre did not release additional quota of electricity.
The state Government authorities have stated that since the rise militancy related violence in the Kashmir valley in 1989 Jammu-Kathua-Samba towns have become base for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage adding that currently these very towns reel under prolonged power shedding and owing to frequent breakdowns in the transformers.
Incidents of transformers getting burnt due to overloading amid the searing heat wave conditions have triggered protests across the Jammu region. In two incidents on Saturday, angry people, including women, in the border belt of Arnia in Bishnah tehsil of Jammu district took
out a protest and gheraoed the Arnia police station.
Reports from Arnia said people from wards 10 and 11 staged protest demonstrations against the PDD in the morning and gheraoed the Arnia police station.
They raised slogans against the local MLA and protested the inordinate delay on the part of the PDD in replacing or repairing the 250-KVA transformer that was damaged a week back.
They served an ultimatum on the PDD to restore the transformer within a day or two, failing which they would block the RS Pora-Arnia road.
In Jammu, men and women from Vikas Nagar torched the Janipur maintenance and repairs electricity division and allegedly manhandled the PDD staff.
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