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| Hollow promises of PDD puncture Jammu’s development claims | | Areas within municipal limits face 7-8 hour daily outages, people outraged | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 18: Scores of areas in the otherwise smart city of Jammu are reeling under darkness- exposing the claims of the Jammu and Kashmir administration about the uninterrupted power supplies to the consumers on priority.
Social media is abuzz with complaints against the power development department in Jammu over its casual and non-serious approach in providing electricity to households.
For example, an area known as Chowadhi Jammu has not seen electricity in full for the past one month. Every day, the outages are for seven to eight hours, and even during the peak evening hours, the electricity is snapped in the area for more than two hours. The locals accuse the administration of deliberately denying them the facility for which they are paying the government in full. They added that amid the COVID-19 restrictions and closure of the schools, the education of their children is getting severely hit due to frequent electricity outages in the area. Furthermore, there are patients who require oxygen supplies and the same couldn’t be provided to them in absence of stable power supplies. When asked, the power development department has been doling out the reason for overloading. “But this is ruthlessly incorrect. The majority of the area is metered and is paying as per the meter consumption. How could the outages of 7 hours every day be justified? This is inhuman and intolerable,” says a local. On social media, on the other hand, people are terming the PDD as the worst example of misadventure of the government’s PR exercise. The government, they said, keeps beating the trumpet of ensuring development post Article 370 abrogation but the situation has only worsened. “The PDD is doing everything it can to declare government a failure on the ground. This is the reason that such outages have become an order of the day and mismanagement is ruling the roost within the PDD,” says a netizen. It was also being projected that such a situation in areas of Jammu is acting as an eye-opener to what development has been achieved since August 2019 in the region. “It is all hollowness and nothing else. The uninterrupted power supply is a myth being sold to hoodwink people. The reality is that the PDD is a crisis-ridden department and worst example of mismanagement,” he said.
Ironically, last month, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha met Union Power Minister RK Singh in New Delhi during which he is reported to have discussed the power scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, steps to provide 24×7 electricity supply to people of the UT, installation of Smart and pre-paid meters in the cities and pace of work on ongoing power projects. |
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