Kupwara, Oct 22 (KNS): Residents of this frontier district are up in arms against the Power Development Department as they are facing unscheduled power cuts.
Residents of Kupwara town and its outskirts while talking to KNS said.
“The Department doesn't adhere to the schedule due to which the students preparing for examination are facing hardships,” they added. “When PDD installed meters in our area we were told that we would get power supply round the clock, but their promises turned out to be a hoax,” residents said.
The situation in un-metered and remote villages of Kupwara, Langate, Handwara, Kralpora, Trehgam, Hayhama and valley Lolab is no different.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelMany remote villages, including Badkoot, Rajpora, Kalmoona, Hafrada, Rangward, Marseri, Shalal and Sudal, are facing acute power shortage.
In Drugmulla, Vodhpora, Muhgalpora and other villages power supplied from Arampora grid station is disrupted after every half an hour. “PDD resorts to continuous power cuts,” locals said. Residents of Kupwara, Tikker, Hirri, Drugmulla, Trehgam and Kralpora complained that power plays hide and seek and during night hours the supply goes off for hours together. “Unscheduled power cuts have become order of the day and students are the worst sufferers” said Ishfaq Ahmad a 2nd Year student. (KNS)