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| Sainik Colony residents stage protest against unscheduled power cuts | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jun 3: Sainik Colony residents held a massive demonstration here today against long and unscheduled power cuts.
The irate residents blocked the National Highway and shouted slogans against PDD.
This disrupted the traffic on highway causing huge inconvenience to passengers. Police promptly swung into action and diverted the traffic.
Approximately 2000 protesters sat on the NH1A for more than 8 hours demanding improvement in electric supply in the colony.
"The erratic and long power cuts are likely to worsen during soaring heat of June and July if immediate steps are not taken to improve the present scenario," said Gurmeet Kour Randhawa of Jan Sewa Sanstha.
The low voltage has added to their woes. This is adversely affecting the health of infants and studies of children, the protesters rued.
Talking to reporters the residents of the colony said that PDD has turned deaf ears towards their long outstanding demand for upgradation of transformer to 10MVA.
Gurmeet Kour Randhawa president Jan Sewa Sanstha, Ajit Singh, Brig(retd) Saini, Bablu, Sukhdev Singh, Bunty, Parkash Jamwal, Nita Slathia and others urged to the local MLAs, MoS Power Shabir Ahmed Khan and PDD authorities to take immediate steps in improving the power supply and upgradation of transformer to 10 MVA.
The police persuaded the residents to call off the demonstration after obtaining assurance from Chief Engineer to mitigate their grievances caused due to unscheduled power cuts and low voltage.
Chief Engineer PDD Sheahnaz Goni has invited prominent residents to her office tomorrow to discuss the problems of electricity in Sainik Colony.
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