Sukhnandan appreciates LG Sinha’s prompt action to resolve electricity shortage in J&K

Sinha seeks higher power allocation to J&K

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Jammu: Senior BJP leader and former minister Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar on Friday appreciated Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for timely action on farmer’s request of regular power supply to rural Jammu area.
“I had met LG Sinha and within two days he rushed to New Delhi to address our major issue and met Union Minister of Power and NRE R K Singh at Delhi, seeking higher allocation to J&K,” Sukhnandan said.
“We sought LG’s intervention for regular power supply to the rural areas otherwise the farmers would vacate the villages around Jammu and rush towards cities, said Sukhnandan, adding LG Sinha had a meeting on Thursday with Union Minister R.K. Singh, in presence of Power Secretary, Alok Kumar and other senior officials of the Ministry of Power and New & Renewable Energy at Delhi.
The meet discussed various measures required to ensure uninterrupted power supply and improve power infrastructure in the Union Territory of J&K.
In absence of electricity, the farmers in Jammu are not able to irrigate their fields which may led to major damage of rabi crop. In absence of rainfall, the villagers are totally dependable on regular power to irrigate their fields. Moreover, shortly the students in villages have to appear in exams and how they will study in long hours electricity cuts, the former minister Sukhandan Kumar had apprised LG Sinha during his meeting at Raj Bhawan Jammu earlier this week.
“The Union Minister of Power has assured that the central government will extend all possible assistance to ensure adequate availability of resources,” Sukhnandan told the farmers at Marh on Friday while narrating the LG’s meeting with the Union Minister.
“Whenever we have taken up any issue with LG Sinha, he has always resolved it without any delay,” said the former minister Ch Sukhnandan Kumar while describing the administrative acumen of LG Sinha and his concern for the people of J&K especially those residing in rural areas.
“We also request the central government especially the power ministry to consider our genuine demand at an earliest,” Sukhnandan appealed.