Ware house Jammu without electricity for 4 days
Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, July 29: Power Development Department (PDD) has
failed to provide regular power supply in the city despite the fact that
sweltering heat is making every moment miserable for the common man.
The technical snag in transformer and failure of the PDD to
replace it for past few days has added to the woes of the traders in one of the
important commercial hub of the city.
Pertinently, one of the major commercial areas of Jammu Ware
House was suffering from power failure due to transformer damage from the past
four days due to which the commercial activities have come to halt.
The PDD recovers crores of rupees from the people in shape
of electricity bill from commercial establishments from the past many years but
still unable to provide constant power supply resulting
“This is failure of state coalition government which even
unable to provide the basic necessity such as water and electricity smoothly to
the masses of the state” said a businessman, Mela Ram.
He added that from the past four days not even a single
person from the PDD was come to repair the transformer.
There are around 150 to 200 shops besides government
quarters which were affecting due the transformer damage, whereas resentment
among the people of Ware House against PDD was growing with each passing day.
Another shopkeeper Nitu said, “We are unable to do our
routine work due to unavailability of electricity supply in our area”.
A resident of Ware House, Mohan Singh said that his children
and parents are suffering in this hot and humid condition but officials have
not been bothered to visit the locality even once.
When contacted Assistant Engineer PDD, Gandhi Nagar, Sanjeev
Rometra said that the transformer was taken to the workshop for repairing and
will be installed by today evening positively.
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