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| Why double standards on Power tariff ? | | While govt. defaults in crores, PDD forces 60 thousand into dark | | et plus report
Srinagar, Mar 17: Due to harsh attitude of Power Development Department fifty villages inhabited by sixty thousand people from Central Kashmir’s Khag Tehsil are being deprived of electricity from last ten days. PDD in a novel method shot a letter to Jamia Masjid Khag in which the Department had informed the people that they will get two hours electricity, one hour during the day and one during evening till they paid the revised tariff. "You are informed to pay Rs 317 per month as electricity fee, if you fail to pay fee you will not get electricity," the letter reads.
According to reports Khag Power Receiving Station feeds electricity to fifty villages. People use to pay Rs 100 per month as electric bill but now they are being asked to pay Rs 317 per month. "Why should we pay such a huge amount when we don't get electricity even after paying our fee? We are telling PDD to install meters and give us uninterrupted power supply and take dues from us but due to unknown reasons they remain silent," Mohammad Sultan a resident from Poshkar, Khag told. People are fuming the way they are being treated by the government. "We are being treated like cattle. You will not believe that we have not seen our bulbs getting lit form last ten days. This is autocracy and we are going to come on roads," Abdul Rashid said.
A student said that he has to appear in University Entrance test and PDD has forced him to study under candle light. "It's not only me but there are hundreds of students who face the same problem," Adil Ahmed said.
Due to harsh attitude of PDD, patients are suffering as well. X-Ray and UGC machines in Primary Health Centres in Khag and Poshkar are defunct and people have to go to Beerwah or Magam. Executive Engineer Division Budgam, Nazir Ahmed told CNS people are bound to suffer if they fail to pay the fee. "These people have not paid their electric bills so their electricity was snapped," he said.
Assistant Executive Engineer, Syed Javid Naqashbandi was candid enough to say that supply was snapped on the behest of higher authorities. "To pressurize people this step was taken. I was on leave and hopefully this matter will be sorted out with one or two days. I have sympathies with these people and I know they suffer a lot," he said.
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