Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 15: The residents of Swaran Vihar are up in arms against the J&K Cooperative Housing Society and Power Development Department (PDD) for their callousness in repairing the local transformer in the area due to which the power supply has been totally hit to the local bore well for last five days resulting into the water crisis in the colony.
The protestors who held a demonstration here today warned to ghearo the two offices tomorrow morning for their callousness in restoring the transformer due to which the water supply in the colony was hit for last five days and people have not even a single drop of water to drink in this hot Summer.
The Swaran Vihar Welfare Association which has warned to launch agitation in case the transformer was not replaced by tomorrow and water supply restored in the area said that despite taking up the issue with PDD as well as authorities of Cooperative Housing Society they failed to repair or replace the local transformer till date so that water supply is restored in the area.
The president of the Association N D Sharma and its general secretary D N Thaploo told Excelsior that this is the criminal negligence on the part of the authorities of the two organizations who instead of repairing or replacing the transformer are passing bucks on each other due to which the people in the Housing Colony are made to suffer in this hot Summer.
They said people have to purchase water at the rate of Rs 800 a tanker when despite paying both power as well as water tariff they were deprived of water supply.
They said that the water to the main water tank constructed in the colony was supplied from the bore which has been dug within the society and it is managed and maintained by the Society. The PDD has installed a separate transformer for lifting the water from bore well and the same has developed a snag now. But neither the PDD nor the Society takes responsibility to repair or replace the same due to which the inhabitants have been made to suffer, they added.
They said the residents are left with no alternative but to come to streets and ghearo the offices of both the organizations.
Follow our WhatsApp channel