Aijaz Rasheed

Pulwama, April 3 (KNS): Frequent power outages have irked residents in many villages of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Residents from Chandigam, Palpora, Wasoora, Nownagri and other adjoining villages told KNS that from past couple of weeks they are not receiving electricity as per schedule.
“We get hardly 2 hours of electricity in a day against scheduled 8 hours,” said Abdul Majid, a resident of Chandigam. He added that it is become very difficult for them to stay indoors after their area been declared Red Zone and due to frequent power cuts.
He also that without electricity they remain cut off from their dear ones not only physically but virtually as well.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
“All modern gadgets like mobile phones became useless due to unavailability of electricity,” the residents said, adding that due to the shortage of electricity they not only are facing difficulty in passing time but they also don’t know what is happening around them. “We are unable to get news as most of the power cuts are resorted during evening time,” they said.
The residents also complained that they even do not get access to advisories issued from time to time by government on corona virus.
The residents appealed authorities to redress their grievance.
Executive engineer PDD Pulwama, Nazir Ahmad said that the frequent power cuts in the area is result of overloading by consumers. (KNS)