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| Power Distribution Corporation plays hide & seek, revises curtailment schedule according to will | | Valley residents pushed to wall in harsh winter | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: The Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) is playing hide and seek with the people of Kashmir valley these days as the power curtailment schedule gets changed every now and then.
Over the past few weeks the curtailment schedule has been revised at least twice for the consumers of Srinagar district. For the residents falling under the jurisdiction of Rawalpora grid station the curtailment schedule has been revised thrice and the residents are almost mocking the curtailment schedule.
According to the latest schedule drawn up by KPDCL the Srinagar residents falling under the metered category would be subjected to six hours power cut in a day. At the same time for the non-metered areas the curtailment would be between nine and twelve (12) hours in a day with night cuts returning to haunt the people.
For the people living in the metered areas of the different districts of the Kashmir valley the curtailment would be between six to eight hours on daily basis. For the people of non-metered areas of the valley the curtailment would be 12 hours in a day meaning that power would be available for just half a day.
Sources told Early Times that despite directions from Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam the KPDCL has not given publicity to the new curtailment schedule drawn up by them. It seems that directions given by the top notch bureaucrat to the KPDCL officers have fallen on deaf ears since no publicity has been given so far.
"The people of the valley wake up to the latest curtailment schedule of KPDCL and they don't have any idea when the power would be switched off. The Corporation should without any waste give wide publicity to the curtailment schedule so that people get to know about the curtailment hours in a given day," said sources.
Sources said that successive governments of erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir did not honour its commitment of providing round the clock power supply to metered areas of Srinagar and other districts of Kashmir valley. The same has happened during the Governor's rule and it is going in the present dispensation as well.
"In the first instance the metered areas were subjected to three hours cut in a day. The same was increased to four and half hours within no time and just yesterday it reached six hours. Going by the careless approach of the concerned Corporation one cannot rule out more curtailment for the people of metered areas," said sources.
Sources said that situation is worse in the non-metered areas with no dependence on the schedule whatsoever adding that problems are more since harsh winter has already set in. They said the people at helm should look into the problems of common masses so that there is some solution and there is relief at the end of the day. |
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