STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has expressed grave concern over the unprecedented power Crisis leading to adversely affecting water supplies, causing huge hardships to the people.
In a statement, JKPCC Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma has said that there is acute shortage of power supply and longest ever scheduled and unscheduled power cuts to the duration of 12 to 14 hours. The general public is suffering a lot especially aged, infirm, ailing, children, students etc, in particular.
Sharma said government has totally failed to deal with the problem and unable to explain its failure to the general people. This is Very serious and unprecedented situation and the government must come upto the situation.
The people are facing scorching heat but the heat wave shall further pick up, then things would be further worst. On the other hand, the consumers are being served inflated and exorbitant power bills and demanded the government to announce amnesty scheme to power consumers.
He said situation is worst in rural and remote areas while the poor power supply has adversely affected the water supply system in entire Jammu and Kashmir. He said Congress would take to streets, if the government fails to act immediately to provide relief to the people.