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| How Babus push otherwise thriving state in doldrums | | JK becomes country’s worst region with dismal power scenario | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 22: At present when the worst ever power scenario is engulfing the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Early Times newspaper was the first media house to raise the alarm bells before the storm knocked the doors.
It was on April 9, this year when this newspaper exposed the failure of the state administration in tackling the power crises and how same could explode into a major catastrophe.
The headline on April 9, this year when the power supplies were yet to get affected read: “Brace for Worst ever power crises in Jammu in the coming days; Govt.’s claims of round the clock electricity go for a toss as outages become a new norm”
Now two weeks later, Jammu and Kashmir has become the worst place in entire country in terms of power supplies. Even in the distant and inaccessible hamlets of the country, such prolonged outages are never witnessed.
On social media, netizens are ruing over the present dismal state of power supply system, stating that the erstwhile state has been plunged into the dark ages where primitive methods will now turn prevalent. “All the power reform schemes, all centrally aided power generation programs have fallen drastically flat in Jammu and Kashmir. There is nothing left except wretchedness at large,” wrote a netizen here.
In Kashmir, another social media user wrote: “Such a situation was never in the modern history of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed when the power cuts are so prolonged and unending. The irony is that the administration has adopted a complete indifferent approach to such a catastrophic situation. There is no accountability anywhere and people do not know where to narrate their ordeal and highlight their plight. This is bizarre, undemocratic and inhuman. The government must understand that it is once a year that the holy month of Ramadan arrives and punishing people during this time is humiliating.”
Scores of others seconded that the power crises are menacingly looming large in both Jammu as well as in Kashmir with administration playing a proverbial ostrich, caring little about the insurmountable predicament the masses of Jammu and Kashmir have been plunged into. “Where is the government? Why is it not caring about the consumers who pay hefty power bills every month? Where is electricity nowhere existent that too at a time when Prime Minister is scheduled to visit the state and when JK admin is busy claiming all is well,” asks another social media user. |
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