The electricity of village Halla in Dhara A panchayat in Doda district has been facing an electricity outage for 12 days as the village’s power supply transformer has not arrived since then.
According to various reports by Chenab Times’ consulting editor and senior journalist Farid Ahmed Naik on this issue, a low-quantity transformer is provided every time, and that transformer never lasts for a day. The village even lacks proper road connectivity as it is incomplete, which causes a lot of people to suffer.
Due to a massive power outage, CT’s multilingual programme is being affected as Naik delivers Sarazi language news in the program. According to the villagers, the concerned department is not sending anyone to deliver their transformer to this village.
In a Facebook post in the Urdu language, Naik said, “There is no electricity, transformer is necessary for electricity [here], [While] Road connection is required for transformer, but road connection is incomplete and dilapidated, snow and heavy rains continue from above, fault occurs in 33 kV line. Now the question is how the electricity will reach my village.”
If we talk about road connectivity, the villagers have to walk by foot even in the dry season. In an interview, a local, Firdous Ahmed Naik, became anxious and threatened to kill himself because they had to repair the road by themselves as the concerned department had excused a dispute in the nearby village for many years and no one was listening to them on the ground.
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