While Kashmir continues to reel under worst power crisis for the past two months now, the power development department has failed to repair a damaged transmission tower in Jammu, resulting in loss of at least 50 MW of electricity to the Valley every day. An official said that one of the 220-kv towers of the Kishenpur-Pampore transmission line, which supplies electricity to Kashmir, was damaged during road widening in Surmoil, Udhampur following heavy rainfall in late July. Since then, the official said, the tower hasn’t been restored. The Kishenpur-Pampore transmission…
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