Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Feb 12: The people from Rehmat Nagar in Poonch today held strong protest against the Power Development Department (PDD) for its failure to restore electricity supply even after ten days.
The people including women and children came out on the road in their locaility during the day today and staged protest demonstration against the PDD authorities at Poonch. They were raising loud slogans against District Administration, XEn PDD Poonch and Chief Engineer concerned.
The villagers namely Syed Touseef, Riaz Ahmed and Naseeb Jan said that PDD transformer installed in their locality went out of order 10 days ago. Since then, the power supply has been snapped. The PDD staff at Poonch has failed to get the damaged electric transformer repaired or replace it till date. They sought intervention of DC Poonch into the matter.