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| Power cuts leave people swearing in Doda | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU/ DODA June 18: With temperature hovering around 26°C in Doda , frequent power cuts and dry drinking water taps have added to the woes of people.
However, Commissioner Secretary (PDD) Sandeep Naik blames electricity consumers for the abrupt overloading of the transmission system.
According to the Power Development Department (PDD) a daily power cut of only 7 hours are in Bhaderwah, Doda, Kishtwar, Banihal, Ramban, areas. However, the PDD was not sticking to the curtailment schedule and people were crying because of frequent unscheduled breakdowns and low voltage. This has led to acute shortage of drinking water as the pumping stations of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department were unable to operate.
Naik said on telephone that there was no shortage of electricity, but the problem had been caused as consumers were indulging in overdrawing power. Curtailment was being resorted to in order to prevent damage to transformers. He said Not only the Dul Power Station Kishtwar which is generating 390 MHW electricity, but the the other power projects of the state were running at low capacity as the discharge in rivers was not up to the mark because of cold temperature at higher reaches that was preventing the melting of snow.
The Commissioner Secretary said leaving apart Himachal Pradesh, J&K was better than any other state in the region as far as electric supply was concerned. He said it was not possible to overdraw power from the Northern Grid as the PDD had to pay Rs 7 for per unit of electricity under such arrangement.
Meanwhile, reports from the districts of Gul Danda ,Sewej Dhar ,Padri, Khani top of Bhaderwah, Doda, Bhaderwah, Kishtwar, and Ramban indicated acute power crisis in these areas. Mean while a political leader Ilyas Malik said that when the state government did not hesitate to purchase power at an exorbitant rate of Rs 7 per unit during winters when there is shortage in these areas, there was no justification to punish the people of Doda by resorting to power cuts in the boiling temperature.
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