Sir,
Oh, my god; are you watching? I am sure, you must also not be comfortable with the miserable plight of your subjects in the extremely tormenting hot and humid temperature, with no electricity for intermittent cuts of short and long hours during days and nights equally. But , the authorities responsible for the situation insensitive towards peoples’ sufferings as they are , care the least. While long cuts go up to more than three hours, short cuts are resorted to intermittently for periods varying between a few minutes to an hour. When I was writing this piece, I failed to count the number of cuts which went on after every two or three minutes.
I need not explain the worst effects of the grim situation on each and every strata of society, as all suffer, some less, some more and some the most. The sufferers without any distinction, include infants, young, old, ill, disabled, male, female and students etc. While I being from Talab Tillo area, believe that the situation must not be different in other parts of Jammu city as well, except as expected, VVIP areas and people. Years on, the big fleet of work force and officials, the power development department has are still wanting in finding out solution to the simple problems of long / short intermittent power cuts and low/poor voltage, despite spending (as shows the statistics) tones of money on improving the system.
The situation has become more grim in the present regime also, and end of it is nowhere in sight. This time we have our deputy chief and power minister, who is also only second in command. No trace of ” achhe din” is seen. Situation prevails in the midst of tall and taller claims of progress and development.
People have been left to fend for themselves. What progress and development, where, people don’t have the assured basic and essential facility of uninterrupted power supply even for a few hours, what to speak of twenty four hours a day? That appears to happen only in dreams. Even after finishing writing this matter, I was not able to mail it for over three hours because of a long power cut.
Yours etc….
A.N.Zutshi.
Jammu
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