Dear Editor,
Through your esteemed daily, I want to highlight the issue that in our area there are unscheduled power cuts and in this the rising temperature, it is making life tougher. The Power Development Department (PDD) has started to add to the miseries of the common people by resorting to unscheduled power curtailments and low voltage during the peak hours of the day.
The situation in the outskirts and remote areas is annoying as the unscheduled power cuts have made the life miserable for the residents.
Haphazard outages and lack of public information appear to be the hallmarks of the State’s Power Distribution Department, despite years of load management. Though official communication disseminated through the media puts the duration of scheduled outages at two hours per day, unscheduled outages, and emergency load reliefs are making life miserable for citizens.
The residents are simmering under the gradually increasing summer heat; power woes are here to worsen the season’s torridness for them. People living in and around the city are experiencing erratic outages for durations of more than an hour. The education department has ordered closure of school to prevent children from heat but it is sad that PDD department has shown no concern in this connection and has even imposed more unscheduled power cuts. Residents are feeling helpless and have to bear this.
It is my humble request to the authorities through your paper that they should find some solution to the problem and kindly ensure supply of light atleast during the night.
D. P Singh (Raju)
Jammu
