Power shortage continues to haunt people in Kashmir. Wasim Majnoon Mir people at different places in Kashmir Valley took to streets on Thursday against Power Development Department (PDD) alleging that scores of areas are reeling under darkness while the PDD do not bother to stick to its curtailment schedule that it came up with on the onset of winter in November last year. Reports said that hundreds of people blocked Bandipora-Shadipora road near Ganistan Sumbal area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Protestors including men, women, youth and children assembled on road and used wooden logs to disrupt the vehicular movement. The protestors alleged that scores of areas in Sumbal Tehsil are without electricity from past ten days while PDD officials are in slumber. “Whenever we approach any PDD official, he assures of regular power supply but soon his assurances prove hoax as we never see electricity,” they said. Traffic was disrupted for hours on roads while the Police and PDD officials who visited the spot assured that electricity will be restored in the affected areas without any delay.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:46:00 +0000
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