Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 10: Protesting over power crisis in Bishnah, a large number of locals today held demonstrations and blocked Bari Brahamana-Bishnah road.
Over 300 people assembled on Bari Brahamana-Bishnah road at Patyari and held demonstrations against the Power Department. Raising anti-Government slogans, they blocked the road and demanded repair of a transformer, which had suffered damage due to overdrawing of power a few days ago.
They raised anti-Government slogans and demanded immediate repairing of the transformer and restoration of the power supply. The authorities later promised that the transformer will be repaired at the earliest and the power supply restored in the area.
The protesters said that for hours together, the forced shut down is being imposed on the consumers which are torturous during this peak scorching hot summer days. “Even during night hours, there is no power for hours together and people are spending sleepless nights these days,” they added.
They said that daily two or three public protests against power curtailment are reported in Jammu city or other towns but the public representatives and even the Minister for Power, Dr Nirmal Singh, who hails from Jammu, is apparently least bothered about the miseries of the public.
“Most of them are camping in Kashmir and enjoying cool weather mostly along with their families,” the agitating people said, adding, the senior officers of the PDD are generally giving plea that due to old power infrastructure and over loading of the systems, it is their compulsion to impose power cuts these days. They also give another reason of shut down as work of erecting poles and lying cables in some areas of Jammu city by the IRCON.
They said it is unfortunate that even during these peak summer days, the PDD officials are allowing 4-5 hours curtailment on the name of raising poles. “They can at least wait for two-three summer months so that public does not suffer,” the protestors said.
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