Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 3: A meeting of Bari Brahmana Industries Association (BBIA) was held under the leadership of its president Lalit Mahajan for conveying its serious concern over the failure of Power Development Department in supplying 24-hour un-interrupted electricity to the industrial units.
The members present in the meeting said that with the imposition of two- hours power cut from 8.00 pm to 10.00pm on the excuse of power shortage due to peak hours power load on the system was resulting into huge financial losses to the industrial units, which are running their units on DG Set. The situation is more serious due to unscheduled power cuts in the day time citing the reason of overheating of transformers as the department has no cooling equipments installed in the grid stations, they added.
“Due to unscheduled power cuts, the most sufferers are the industrial units engaged in the manufacturing of plastic goods, steel products and other related products as heavy loss of material in process reported and unit holders have no option but to stop the production resulting in standstill of their industrial activities in the industrial areas across the State due to which the industrial units are suffering huge financial losses,” the members said.
Maintaining that industrial sector in J&K was working in spite of all the odds and regularly paying huge amount on account of power dues with minimum transmission losses whereas Power Development Department failed to supply the quality power, the BBIA appealed to Governor Satya Pal Malik and his Advisor K K Sharma to intervene in to the matter and issue necessary directions to the concerned officials to ensure the un-interrupted power supply to Industrial sector of J&K.
The meeting was attended by Tarun Singla, Sr vice president; Ajay Langer, vice president; Viraaj Malhotra, general secretary; Rajesh Jain, secretary; Vivek Singhal, Treasurer and other members of BBIA.
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