Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: Namrta Sharma, president Women Wing of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Jammu and Kashmir, has raised serious concern over the highly deplorable condition of power scenario in urban areas of Jammu not to talk of the rural where the situation is all the more worse.
The senior AAP leader claimed to have taken up the matter with the Chief Engineer of Power Development Department Jammu and apprised him of the unscheduled power cuts. She said that people today feel highly irritated by the erratic and unscheduled long power cuts when summer is at the threshold with temperatures going abruptly up at its very onset. She said that it is an irony of the people of Jammu that they are being forced to live a miserable life amidst the worst power scenario.
Namrta lamented that despite the dismal power scenario and resentment among the people the Govt is arbitrarily going ahead with its plan to further increase the power tariff of consumers. She said that the Government takes crores of rupees in terms of tariff from the consumers but when it comes to providing the round-the-clock power supply, it is abdicating its responsibilities leaving the consumers high and dry.
“It is appalling that instead of ensuring regular power supply is resorting to unscheduled power cuts and giving a tough time to the people of Jammu,” she added.
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