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| Power cuts during Ramadan irk Kishtwar people | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Apr 5: The mountainous Kishtwar district is facing grave power crisis at the time when the summer is already ahead especially in the month of holy Ramadan.
The locals said that outage due to frequent power breakdowns and prolonged power curtailment has become a routine which is adding to their woes in the month of Ramadan beside the business community is also suffering along with the students.
“During the month of Ramadan at the time of Iftiyari and Taravi Nimaz, the power cut system has irked the people” Locals of of Kishtwar town lambasted the PDD.
They said that people use to go Masjid for Taravi, but the streets are dark due to power cut just before the Taravi Nimaz and the street dogs are posing threat to lives of commuters.
Locals said the summer is ahead and the Kishtwar is already under load, but the PDD is harassing people by frequent curtailment even during the holy Month of Ramadan.
They said that their life has become hell due to frequent and prolonged power curtailments despite the district is under load.
“Most of the city localities and villages in Kishtwar town are living in dark during Dinner and sometimes Sehrii (early morning) hours despite the fact that district boosts of a mega Power project that generates 390 to 450 Mega Watt electricity in a single day” they said.
Slamming the government for its failure to get them share in the electricity generated at the local hydel project, the people said that NHPC is using water, land, manpower, roads and other local infrastructure and in lieu of that we were not provide even a single mega watt power to lit the houses of local population.
They said that despite extremely poor service, the PDD department is issuing excessive bills.
Sources also informed that Kishtwar district is running under load nowadays but the frequent power cut schedule is coming from Udhumpur TLMD without taking ground reality into account.
There is strong resentment brewing among the people and they are ready to come on streets if the district administration failed to take a call on the issue. |
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