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| Budgam villagers cry discrimination in distribution of electricity load | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
BUDGAM, Feb 8 : Though the Power Development Department (PDD) remains in news for poor electricity supply, people of this Central Kashmir district have other reasons as well to rue the authorities.
Residents of some villages of the district told Early Tines that the receiving station at Wadwan supplies electricity to about two dozen villages through three feeders. They said the irony is that 18 villages have been put on two feeders while as the third feeder is solely for Wadwan village.
"It is sheer discrimination from PDD that Wadwan village has got the lion's share from the receiving station. It is totally an act of injustice on part of the department which has failed to ensure the fair distribution," said Ali Mohammad from Gotapora.
He asked that aren't all people equal before the department that it has given the lion's share to a particular village only due to some influence enjoyed by residents of Wadwan in the corridors of the power.
People of the area say that in addition to the unfair distribution, many villages of the area are without the line men and the people at times have to do the repairs themselves. Be it the erecting the fallen poles or changing the oil, the people manage all these affairs on their own.
"Our village has been without the lineman for so many years. Whenever any rectification is needed, either to set the transformers in order or erect the fallen poles, people do it on their own because the officials are missing from the scene," said Javed Ahmad from Dharmunah.
Javed was highly critical of the department saying that it has at many times failed to deliver the electricity bills at the doorsteps of the consumers. The electricity bills are handed over to a shopkeeper and after some days these bills are seen torn on the road and in some bills shopkeeper packs tobacco in the same.
GhulamRasool, Inspector PDD said that it is the job of the lineman to deliver bills to consumers at their doorsteps. He said since there is dearth of lineman in many villages of the area he is forced to perform duties of a linemen adding it becomes difficult to hand over the bills. Sajad Ahmad, Assistant Executive Engineer Electrical Sub-division Narbal said that a proposal will be sent to the authorities for the redistribution since he cannot do it on his own.
He while acknowledging dearth of staff said that there is no Assistant Engineer at the sub-division. He said there is one junior engineer instead of four in the sub-division. |
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