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| PDD employees threaten agitation if state govt proceeds with privatization move | | 'We will enforce boycott pushing areas into darkness' | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 26: As the state government is contemplating to private the power sector, employees of the Power Development Department have opposed the move and termed it a conspiracy to grab the water resources of Jammu & Kashmir.
The employees of the PDD have threatened to hit the streets and launch an agitation in case the state government does not drop its idea of privatizing the department. The PDD employees also apprehended that the proposed move would lead to unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir.
Scores of the PDD employees assembled here at the city centre and carried out protest demonstration against the proposed government move. The protesting employees said that if privatization takes place in the power sector in the state companies based outside Jammu & Kashmir would be given free hand to exploit water resources of the state with people being the ultimate sufferers.
"It is a conspiracy hatched by some private players to exploit the resources of the state and to make money out of it. Under this proposal private companies will take the charge of power distribution and they will charge people with hefty tariff bills," the protesters said while carrying out the protest demonstrations.
The protesters alleged that through privatization of the power sector, the left over water resources of the state would be exploited further. They said the water resources of Jammu & Kashmir have already been exploited since many years. They said power generated after the proposed privatization would be exported to the other states with people of state losing out on all counts.
"The PDD employs many youth of the state and once the privatization takes place there will be no surety that any private firm will keep intact to their services. It will render lot of youth unemployed and people from outside will be preferred for various posts. As such the talented youth of the state would be without government jobs," the protesters said.
The protesting employees of PDD said that water resources hold key to the overall economic progress of the state. They alleged that once the private companies are allowed to exploit these resources the money would be drained out of the state with government and people turning as mute spectators to the whole issue. They said that they would come on streets and lodge strong protests against the proposed move.
The protesters appealed the civil society groups and High Court Bar Association to put pressure on the government against such move. They threatened of enforcing boycott in department and said that areas would be plunged into darkness once the PDD employees go on indefinite strike.
Prominent among those who took part in the protests include Rafiq Ahmad Khanyari, Engineer Iqbal, Farid Ahmad Mir, Nisar Ahmad Magloo, Ghulam Nabi Mir, Farooq Ahmad Mir, Aijaz Hussain Mir, Mohammad Yousuf Rather, Abdul Rashid Najar, Abdul Gaffar Khan, Sanjay Dhar, Ghulam Mohammad Mir, M Ismail Kambay, Shafeeq Umar Bhat, Mir Shafiq, Zahoor Alam and Mohammad Afzal Fatehpuri. |
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