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| JWAM launches ‘Jan Andolan’ against power failure | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, July 23: Jammu West Assembly Movement (JWAM) on Saturday began
its indefinite “Jan Andolan” (mass agitation) to protest the
government’s proposed move to hike power tariff and long power cuts in
Jammu.
They also flayed the administration for acute shortage of potable
water and unplanned digging of roads and lanes in the city.
Scores of JWAM activists assembled at New Plot and burnt the effigy of
the Power Development Department (PDD) for enforcing long power cuts
and proposing hike in power tariff. Chanting slogans against the
government, the protestors also disrupted the vehicular movement on
New Plot-Janipur for sometime.
They also broke the earthen pots to lodge their protest against the
acute shortage of drinking water in many localities of Jammu city.
Addressing the protestors, JWAM president Sunil Dimple alleged that
the government was forcing people to come on roads by pursuing
“anti-people” policies.
He also appealed the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC)
for deferring the PDD’s proposed hike in power tariff and sought the
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s personal intervention into the matter.
Dimple warned that if the SERC does not defer the hike in power
tariff, the city residents in general and JWAM activists in particular
would further intensify their agitation.
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