Touseef Wani
Ganderbal : The residents of Barnabugh areas of Kangan central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday morning staged a protest against the power development department for the shortage of electricity in their area
Reports reaching Kashmir Despatch that, residents Barnabugh areas on Tuesday took into the streets and staged protest against the non availability of electricity in their area, blocked the road in Barnabugh and disrupted the traffic movement for hours.
Protesters blamed that their area is facing acute shortage of electricity in their area for a long time and the PDD officials are not taking any action to provide relief to the common masses.
People have also complained that the line officers here are not doing their duty well and that is why we are seeing this day.
A local resident said that 100 KV transformers have also been provided in this village but there is a lot of lod in this village. That is why the load on this transformer is high and this transformer keeps getting damaged day by day.
He said that if the department will not solve their problem they will again stage a protest and officials of the concerned department will be responsible.
