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Power cuts and timing

Sir,

No doubt, reducing power cuts from nine hours to four and half hours a day is a good gesture of the new Government but the timings kept for the power cut do not match with the theme of the cabinet decision i.e. to minimise inconvenience to the people during the peak hours. The third cut of the day which spreads from 1700 hours to 2130 hours of one and half hour each to three different areas has not been at all well thought of by the executing authorities.

These days when sun sets at about 1730 hours, how people can tolerate the power cut upto 2130 hours. This means some parts of the city will have to be in complete darkness from 1700 hours to 2130 hours which is very harmful from the security point of view also. Any power cut between 1730 hours to 0700 hours during the coming season is just to help the anti national elements for executing their nasty plans which has to be avoided at all cost. If country is spending crores of rupees in J&K State on the name of security the loss by keeping the city lit during these hours can comfortably be borne by the State, keeping the cause in view. Once the present season is over, the timing for 3rd cut can be readjusted but at present this cut must be either stopped or adjusted, combined with the earlier 2 cuts of the day. It appears, the executing authorities have also not kept in mind the importance of providing light to the people in the evening during the month of HOLY RAMZAN when a particular community has to open their ROZA during these hours of power cut.

There are so many leakage points both in supply of power as well as in receiving the power revenue from the consumers. These areas need not to be spelled out here as both the culprits can be easily identified if the Government takes a few stern actions. By exerting on those parameters, deptt. will definitely be in a position to further reduce the power cuts from four and a half hours to zero hours. Nothing is impossible only we have to abolish completely the existence of the English word 'IF' from our action plans.

My humble submission to PDD :, kindly reconsider the timings for the 3rd power cut of the evening and come out with an easily acceptable solution.

Yours etc...
J.M. Behl
Old Janipur Jammu

Equal treatment

Sir,

The Governor's rule is over and the popular Government under the Chief Ministership of PDP leader Mr. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has come into existence in the State. The formation of popular Government shows that the elected leaders have valued and honoured the verdict of people. The leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (PDP) and Ghulam Nabi Azad PCC (I) President J&K is not unfamiliar in the State. Their joint efforts can make the State happy and prosperous provided they avoid step motherly treatment with any region of the State. Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh deserve equal importance. The people of the State seem happy on the formation of coalition Government. Now it becomes the moral duty of Mufti Government to provide equal share of blessings in every region of the State for the general encouragement of the people.

No doubt, some of the needs of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh differ according to the situation of the areas of the region, but the main needs such as removal of unemployment, removal of prevailing fear of militancy and removal of poverty are the some in general. So it becomes essential for the newly coalition Government to strive equally for removal of the clouds of great problems from the State. The creation of unity is the main need of the hour.

Coalition Government is the result of fair and free election in the State. The main credit for this fair and free elections goes to the Central Government of India. The fresh waves of hope prevail among the people of the State. That the popular coalition Government will definitely strive to complete the dreams of people. The motive or desire that always stresses for personal profit or personal interest does not seem among the members of coalition Government. It appears from their efforts that they are determined to provide fair and equal share to every region of the State.

Yours etc...
D.N. Sharma
Jandial
Tehsil Jammu.

Translate words into deeds

Sir,

The J&K State's new Chief Minister Mr. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed just after taking the Chief Ministerial chair assured the people of clean, result-oriented, transparent and accountable administration. He stressed that it is the time for action not words.

But the question arises here that should the people trust him so early and make haste to welcome the assurance-cum-statement or wait for the results that are being assured by him? His Ministerial/Assembly colleagues are still there to follow the suit and issue the same kind of statements. Infact, the common masses have lost faith in such assurances, as they have always been betrayed by each and every successive regime of the State in the past. More than half of the century has rolled away in experiencing the never-ending miseries, discriminations and betrayals on all fronts at the hands of ruling elite. Every member of this elite asks the other to be result oriented, transparent, accountable, responsible and clean.

A common man like me in the fields and streets wants to know who is asking whom to be accountable? Whose responsibility is to make the administration responsible? It is not the case of Mr. Mufti only. It has become a routine and a precedent too that each and every one in the administration from President and Prime Minister of the country to the District and Block level administrators, officials, representatives ask the other to become hardworker, honest, dedicated, devoted and accountable to the people. Every second or third day the Newspapers come loaded before our eyes with such like statements mainly on front pages that such and such dignitary has asked, appealed, warned desired the administration to be fully responsible and result oriented. But, those prove fake with a short-time.

The people must know who is responsible to whom? Who is accountable to whom? Where the result oriented system exists? Where the transparent administration is? Above all, where the people should approach for redressal of their grievances?. I think to give the people clean administration the ruling elite first should go to the people down to the grass root levels with its own clean hands. Mr. Mufti is an experienced and a mature politician. He fully knows the people aspirations. He is aware of both the aspects viz credit and dis-credit, and their causes too.

Would he be able to stick to his words for action and fulfill his assurance? To what extent his coalition partners and governmental agencies co-operate with him and make him a successful on un-successful Chief Minister of this bleeding State? The time will tell. Till then let us simply hope for best.

Yours ect...
Swatantra Dev Kotwal
Udhampur (J&K)