Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: Expressing serious concern over the precarious power situation in rural areas of the State, CPI (M) State secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today said that the administration is hell-bent to keep the people of State in darkness.
In a statement issued here today, Tarigami said that people living in rural and far flung areas are without electricity and the recent snowfall has aggravated the crisis. He said the people living in rural areas are compelled to arrange for alternate sources of illumination since they are facing worst power crisis.
He said that Power Development Department (PDD) has failed to create a buffer stock of electricity transformers at divisional level to address the situation surfaced due to damaged transformers. He said the step-down transformers, installed in every neighbourhood develop technical snags and the consumers are left helpless in darkness and freezing cold.
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