Jammu, May 20 (Scoop News) – Enraged over the frequent scheduled and unscheduled electricity cuts BJP State Spokesperson Dr. Nirmal Kamal had a dig on the State Government, who despite an expenditure of 3900 crores financed exclusively for power sector by the Central Government right from 2006 to 2009 has remained callous towards the summer problems of shortage of water and power.
Dr. Nirmal Kamal aggressively stated that the State coalition government is befooling the public who is bearing the scorching summer at 43 degree Celsius without power and water. It must be recalled that
Dr. Nirmal said that during winter season when the secretariat remains confined to the winter capital, the frequent shut down of electricity is less and during summer when the Secretariat moves to the summer capital why should the supply of electricity remain less? This is an important question which needs to be addressed. The transformer’s burning rate and snags in distribution of network increases along with the soaring mercury and consumption of electricity by the consumers beyond the agreement load are the attributions leveled by the concerned authorities.At the same time the finance department fixed up enhanced power tariff realization target from Jammu region as compared to the Kashmir region by Rs. 247 crores as compared to Kashmir during the current financial year. How can government do so without of enhancing expenditure on existing power structure. This speaks volumes of oppressive attitude towards
Challenging the government Dr. Nirmal Kamal stated that the government either has not spent on maintenance of existing power structure upto mark or most of the funds have been mis-utilized. She maintained that according to the inner sources there are some areas in
In this context Dr. Nirmal Kamal reiterated that public ought to know where this amount of Rs. 3900 crores given by the Centre government for the power sector reforms including the maintenance of existing powering infrastructure is gone? Therefore, the ruling government should stop harping hollow claims of equitable development. No development is possible without improvement in the infrastructure of what electricity and water availability are the important components. Also that no government can survive for long which do not take care of welfare of the public.
This inhumane attitude of the state government is reflected in frequent scheduled and unscheduled power cuts. Contrary to the market rule that “you receive as you pay”, the state government has adopted the strategy of robbing honest Peter to pay to the Paul who is not contributing to the government’s kitty. Dr. Nirmal Kamal further pointed out that the state government avoid being inhumane and callous toward the woes of the public.
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