Jammu region usually meets with power crisis during summer. People have become used to recurrent and unscheduled power cuts and they no more come out to demonstrate against PDD because they know the department has become immune to public demonstrations. This apart, the recent heavy rains and storm have wrought havoc with electric installations in the city of Jammu. Parts of the low lying areas of Jammu have been inundated by heavy rains and massive damage has happened to electric installations like poles, transmission lines, transformers and even the conductor at Canal grid station. Trees uprooted by stormy winds and heavy rains have snapped power lines with the result that large parts of the city have plunged into darkness. When power is snapped, water supply is also adversely affected and in this way most of the areas of Jammu have had neither power nor water for last couple of days. Entire life has been disrupted. The Government should have planned in advance how to handle a situation that could arise from heavy rains and storms. Every monsoon there is threat of snapping of power, water and disruption of road communication. All this implies that actually topographical and geographical conditions have to be kept in mind when new localities are raised. PDD has been at work and in some parts power supply has been restored but it needs to work on war footing to restore the systems for the entire population of Jammu. It is sad that in modern times entire essential services are getting dislodged like that.
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