Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 16: Sunil Dimple, President Jammu West Assembly Movement along with large number of protesters held a dharna at Amphalla, New Plot, Janipur High Court Road against the Govt’s IRCON, PDD and PHE Department for failing to provide light and drinking water in most of the localities of the Jammu West Assembly Constituency and Jammu City on Independence Day and Raksha Bandhan in hot and humid conditions.
The protesters also showed annoyance over the defunct Janipur and Gladni Grid Stations, wherein almost all the transformers have burnt.
While opposing the Govt’s move to install the four lakh smart, pre-paid and post paid meters in Jammu. The protesters said that the meters on drinking water connections and main road lights were not in working condition.
The protest was also against the IRCON Company for providing substandard cables, boxes and other allied items.
Dimple said that all transformers of Jawahar Nagar, New Plot, Sarwal, Rehari, Bakshi Nagar, Talab Tillo and Janipur were burnt and the children, old aged and patients were facing lot of hardships, thus spending sleepless nights.
He demanded the installation of fresh new receiving station of 50 MVA at Janipur to overcome the load problem and the curtailment of power cuts.
The other prominent protestors were Rani Devi, Seema Devi, Kulwant Sharma, Janak Raj, Kala Kumar, Brahmu, S harbans Singh, Vijay Dogra, Dhram Pal Kai, Piyarey Lal Sharma, Ashok Kumar, Jetinder, Vipan, Mukesh, Rakesh Sharma, Das Kumar, Dev Raj and Divanshu Kapai.
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