Power Development Department (PDD) has said the power situation will improve from the nest week. Chief Engineer PDD Shahnaz Goni told Kashmir Post that they would reduce the hours of daily power cuts and maintain proper power supply from next week. She said PDD is trying its best to overcome the power crisis so that they don’t have to listen to the complaints about unscheduled power cuts from customers. “We will also solve the problem of unscheduled power cuts soon. Our department is monitoring the issue,” she said. Goni, however,…
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15 Day ‘Relaxed’ Shutdown calendar ends today
While the five full-day relaxation period under the separatist calendar ends tomorrow, it will also be the end of the first fortnight of relaxed calendar after weekly shutdowns, marking the six-months of unrest in the Kashmir valley. The separatists are yet to come out with the proposed “plan for transition from weekly calendars” to “a long-term plan of programmes and initiatives” as the New Year starts after the ongoing schedule ends. Normal life activities resumed for five days each during the past two weeks, something which was not seen since…
Read MoreResistance Group exempted lawyers from shutdown
Resistance leaders in the Kashmir valley today exempted lawyers from the two-day shutdown later this week. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, the three separatist leaders who have been issuing weekly protest and shutdown calendars for the past several months, in a joint statement exempted the lawyers from the shutdown scheduled on Friday and Saturday. The separatist trio said there were “thousands of habeas corpus cases pending for hearing”. “In view of the winter vacation of the courts, lawyers are requested to help out the cases of these…
Read MoreResistance leaders, Activists take out protest march from Jamia
Slam issuing domicile certificates to WPRs, implementation of SARFEASI Act in JK Warn of massive agitation if ‘anti-Muslim, anti-Kashmir’ decisions were not revoked On the call of united separatist leadership, large number of separatist leaders and activists of different political groups staged a peaceful protest march from historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar towards Nowhatta Chowk on Monday afternoon. The march was taken out to express solidarity with thousands of people arrested after outbreak of unrest in the Valley and lodged at Kot Bhalwal, Kathua, Hira Nagar, Udhampur and other jails. Carrying…
Read MoreSrinagar -Banihal highway four laning project misses another deadline
While work on major portion of Srinagar-Jammu highway from Jammu side is complete, the four laning of 67.7 km from Srinagar-Banihal has missed another deadline with officials stating that the project would take yet another year, thus aggravating the connectivity conundrum faced by the people in Kashmir. The four-laning project of Srinagar- Jammu Highway has been divided into six sub-projects, Jammu-Udhampur road (65 km), Chenani-Nashri tunnel (9.2 km), Ramban-Udhampur road (43 km), Banihal-Ramban road (36 km), Qazigund-Banihal road (15.25 km) and Srinagar-Banihal road (67.7 km). While work on Jammu-Udhampur stretch…
Read MorePDD Violates own schedule, resorts to over 20 Hour Cuts
Power supply will improve soon: Chief Engineer The Power Development Department (PDD) is resorting to over 20-hour power cuts in violation of the curtailment schedule of 4 and 8 hours which was earlier approved by the government for metered and unmetered areas respectively. PDD is not sticking to any curtailment schedule and the electricity is supplied only for few hours during the day which has triggered widespread resentment among people with protests lodged at many places. Even as PDD had to notify the outages schedule, it has not done so…
Read MoreAnger mounts over unscheduled power cuts
Locals from Maisuma and its adjacent areas on Friday took to streets against Power Development Department (PDD) and locked-up its office at Basant Bagh here. Witnesses said a large number of people from Basant Bagh, Mandir Bagh, Nai Sarak and Maisuma assembled outside PDD office and locked it up to protest against the department’s “failure” to supply them electricity. The protesters said that they receive electricity for only three hours despite paying their fatty monthly bills. “PDD has failed to provide us adequate electricity from past more than four weeks.…
Read MoreProlonged power cuts add to woes as Kashmir Valley freezes
Kashmir Valley is reeling under freezing temperatures and prolonged power cuts are only adding to the miseries of its over six million population. Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, recorded the minimum temperature of minus 6.5 degrees on Wednesday night, the lowest in the last six years. That incidentally on the night when ‘Chillai Kalan’, as the 40-day harshest part of winter is known in the Kashmiri folklore, started. Leh was freezing at 13.2 degrees Celsius. In order to beat the biting cold, the people need better power supply…
Read MoreWith key elections around corner, PDP and NC cash in on people’s emotions
While Kashmir is yet to come out of the trauma and despondency after months of violent protests, strict curfews and shutdowns that took an immense economic and human toll, the two major political parties from the Valley — the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party — are back to what they know best: Playing politics. With the elections to the two key Lok Sabha seats of Srinagar and Anantnag set to be held early next year, the political leadership of the National Conference and PDP is leaving no stone unturned…
Read MoreAnger brewing in ‘Power-Less’ Kashmir
We’re supplied electricity just 3 to 4 hours a day, and are being sermonized by Govt to use it ‘judiciously’; Is this a joke? Ask consumers The arbitrary and prolonged power cuts continue to increase people’s woes in Kashmir amid chilly winter despite repeated assurances by the Government to ensure better supply of electricity. Amid the deteriorating situation, anger is brewing among people in different parts of Kashmir who have threatened to hit roads in case the Government failed to improve the supply. For the past few weeks the situation…
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