Disruption in power supply also disrupts the education of students and working in hospitals besides the business operations both in urban and rural parts of Jammu & Kashmir
Though it is an irrefutable pact that Kashmir Power Development Corporation Ltd (KPDCL) mandated the job of power distribution in Kashmir announces the power curtailment schedule only at the fag end of December on the arrival two and a half month harshest period of winter called “ Chilla-i-Kalan” but unfortunately unannounced long duration power cuts have started to haunt consumers on the arrival of autumn season in September ,i.e., three months before the commencement of the winter in the morning and evening hours and even in the day time across Kashmir including Srinagar the summer capital. Quite saddening it is for the power consumers in Kashmir that despite the increasing public outcry on this count the Chief Engineer Kashmir Power Development Corporation Ltd (KPDCL) does not cite the reasons that are forcing the KPDCL authorities to enforce untimely long duration power cuts three months before the commencement of the harshest period of winter across Kashmir. Perhaps the reports of long duration power cuts have not reached yet the highest seat of Governance at Raj Bhavan in Srinagar and Jammu the twin capitals of Jammu & Kashmir as people still remember that the personal repeated interventions of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on frequent disruptions in power supply in Kashmir Valley had last winter brought timely respite to the power consumers across Jammu & Kashmir.
“The disruptions in power supply whether enforced during the day time or in the morning and evening hours not only puts people to huge inconveniences at their homes but also disrupts both the delivery of key public services and as well as the working of Public institutions besides causing huge losses to trading and business communities across Jammu & Kashmir. Keeping in view the fact that neither the delivery of key public services nor the business of trading and business communities can be run smoothly without the availability of hassle free power supply, the hopes of the restoration of power supply of the power consumers are hereafter pinned on the immediate interventions of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha , Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta and Administrative Secretary Power Development Department. Hope they accord top priority to the increasing power curtailments in Kashmir”.
Since it is an irrefutable fact that disruption in power supply also disrupts the education of students and working in hospitals besides the business operations both in urban and rural parts of Jammu & Kashmir, the increasing complaints of long duration morning and evening power cuts deserve and demand the immediate intervention of the bureaucratic top brass exercising institutional and administrative control over the Kashmir Power Dev Corporation Ltd (KPDCL) in Kashmir and Jammu Dev Corporation Ltd (JPDCL) in Jammu. The disruptions in power supply whether enforced during the day time or in the morning and evening hours not only puts people to huge inconveniences at their homes but also disrupts both the delivery of key public services and as well as the working of Public institutions besides causing huge losses to trading and business communities across Jammu & Kashmir. Keeping in view the fact that neither the delivery of key public services nor the business of trading and business communities can be run smoothly without the availability of hassle free power supply, the hopes of the restoration of power supply of the power consumers are hereafter pinned on the immediate interventions of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha , Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta and Administrative Secretary Power Development Department. Hope they accord top priority to the increasing power curtailments in Kashmir.
