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Jammu, March 8
The upgradation of power supply system in Jammu and Kashmir has been delay following delay on the part of superintending engineers in releasing funds,allotted by the state Government,to the Departmental field agencies.
Sources in the Power Development Department (PDD) said today that the state Government had cleared all the projects related to installation of new transformers, augmentation and improvement in the entire supply system for which funds were released four months ago. The Development Commissioner Power took more than 45 days for securing reports from all the PDD divisions and for screening them before
releasing funds to the Chief Engineers.
According to these sources,the funds have already been transferred to concerned Superintending engineers who have not yet released them to the departmental
field agencies with the result no improvement work has not been taken in hand.
The sources said that the delay in the release of funds had become a usual phenomenon and last year more than Rs.30 lakhs,out of Rs.three to Rs.five crores allotted to various PDD divisions, had to be surrendered in each division when the amount could not be utilised during the financial year.
Some of the executive engineers and Junior engineers were said to have managed to get some works,connected with improvement in power supply lines,done by motivating contractors for doing the job on credit basis.
One executive engineer said that some PDD divisions may be forced either to surrender funds allotted for improvement work or leave various projects,requiring urgent attention,unfinished because less than three weeks were left for the current financial year to
end.He said people's problems could multiply in the torrid Jammu province with the advent of the summer season.
He said "our work schedule has been complicated by the ongoing strike by Power Development Department employees".He said that in various areas "we have to hire private linemen and technicians for rectifying faults in the power transmission supply system."He
wanted the superintending engineers to release funds,allotted by the Government, immediately so that projects connected with improvement in power supply lines were completed on time.(KIP)
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