Early Times Report
Kathua, Aug 22; Miffed over the lackadaisical attitude of power department the activists of BJP held a massive protest demonstration at Power relay grid station HatliMorh, here on Thursday. Thereafter the protesters met with XEn Power Grid and apprised him regarding the hardships of public.
Raising slogans against PDD authorities the protestors alleged that department is deliberately compounding the hardships of people despite charging hefty electricity bills by unscheduled prolonged power cuts.
State Secretary Inderjeet Singh Sambyal, VidyaSagar and JanakBharti who led the protest alleged the PDD failure to provide the proper and required supply of the electricity to the area due to which the normal life is badly affected.
They further added that unscheduled power cut has become a routine and students of the area are the worst suffers. "Frequent and unscheduled power cuts and low voltage spanning hours have irked the farmers.
The worst thing is that presently the paddy sowing season is on and neither, there is water in the canal nor the farmers can get the fields irrigated with the help of pumps", the protesters added.
Despite, the increase in population and number of pump sets there is no increase in the load capacity of the transformers they alleged and termed it as main reason that the transformers repeatedly got damaged. |
