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| Ironically meager '100-minutes' power supply to Jagti Camp from 9am to 6 pm | | Despite sweltering heat, PDD ignores public outcry | | SK KAW
Jammu, June 7: As present coalition regime remained busy in giving away sops to its employees and the youths in particular as a 'damage control' after its debacle in recent Lok Sabha polls but policy makers seem to have least bothered about the basic issues of the whole population including KPs at Jagti camp who are forced to bear the brunt for the want of adequate power and water supply when mercury has swollen to 44 degree celsius these day.
If recalled here soon after the unexpected outcome of the recently concluded parliamentary polls, the state coalition regime accepting its humiliating defeat started retrospection and damage control measures be it the agitating employees or the unemployed youth whose wrath has brought the present regime to the reality by breaking its myths and illusions of winning some seats in Lok Sabha -2014 Polls.
In brusque attempt Chief Minister announced sops like enhancements of retirement age and even relaxing upper age limits besides revoking the controversial recruitment policy but it seems the think tanks of state government have preferred vote politics against the basic amenities to the people as there was not a single proposal of regular supply of power (which was earlier assured that it will be regulated after electronic meterization in state) and water supply.
And the prolonged power curtailments, out of order transformers and shortage of water virtually have left common people to look alternatives to beat the sweltering heat instead of celebrating the sops by playing a 'damp squib.'
It is pertinent to mention here that Jagti Camp where series of protests were held time and again for better basic facilities yet sans the basic facilities like power and drinking water which often gets affected for the want of power.
As many as 4200 families of KPs presently are living at Jagti Camp in Nagrota which were dedicated to migrant community with much fanfare but very few knew that they have meager power supply of less than 100-minutes during day time i.e. from 0900hrs to 1800 hrs when the day mercury has swollen to 44-45 degrees Celsius in these summer days. Despite the court directions earlier, that Jagti Camp should also be provided as power as is being provided to other KP camps in Jammu but the PDD has failed to gove a smother to the displaced community in this hot summer while ignoring the public outcry. For inept, the Jagti Camp is a big habitation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits which came into being in the year 2011 and since then this camp remained in news for obvious reasons in which water and power supply were the main issues.
Lamenting their plight, Rohan Lal Raina a tenant of camp said, "For the last three years inadequate power supply to the camp has been the main issue, for which no solution was found till date either by the concerned authorities or by the inmates of the camp resulting add to the woes of common man but who cares for them. "Before groping in darkness causes any untoward incident to community, government and PDD authorities should wake up from their slumber by working out some viable solution to provide an adequate power supply to the camp," he suggested.
At present entire North India is reeling under intense heat wave so the people of Jammu too are suffering at the hands of adverse weather, the scheduled and unscheduled power curtailments which have further added fuel to the fire courtesy apathetic approach of Power Development Department (PDD) providing no respite to the common masses.
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