Unscheduled power cuts return to Srinagar, people suffer

Residents of different areas of the summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday complained that power department was resorting to unscheduled and extended power cuts in their localities.

They said of late both metered and unmetered areas havestarted witnessing frequent cuts in electricity, which was putting people toinconvenience.

   

These pesky power cuts are now triggering resentment amongpeople, who have asked Power Development Department (PDD) to stick to a powerschedule.

A group of locals from Syed Abad Soiteng here claimed thearea was witnessing more than 15 hours cut in power supply daily.

“The power department doesn’t abide by any schedule. Afterevery 20 minutes, the power supply is snapped to our area,” said Ghulam HassanBhat, a resident Syed Abad.

He said the electricitycuts have grown severe during the past one week. “Why should we pay the billswhen we don’t get the scheduled power supply?” he said.

Manzoor Ahmad, another local urged the authorities to issuewinter power schedule. “We hardly get power supply during the evening hourswhen it is needed most,” he said.

According to resident of uptown area of Natipora the entirearea was witnessing frequent cuts in power supply of late.

Shuib Ahmad said the unscheduled power cuts return to Kashmirsoon after the civil secretariat moves to Jammu as part of biannual darbarpractice.

People from several other areas of the city also complainedof the power curtailment. “We are facing regular power cuts for past one weekeven as our area is fully metered,” said residents of Habba Kadal.

People of Noorbagh,Qamarwari said that despite being a metered area, they were not provided round-the- clock power supply.

The residents said the PDD officials had promised 24-hourpower supply to the area during installation of the meters. “However, we arefacing long power cuts. This is sheer discrimination,” they said.

People of Chanapora, Hyderpora, Rambagh and Sanat Nagar alsocomplained of long power cuts.

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