Anger 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.…

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