People allege negligence of PDD, officials say overloading is the reason
Inayat Qayoom
Baramulla: A power transformer in Zandfaran village of Narvaw area of Baramulla got damaged five times in three months due to which the area is reeling under darkness and people are facing are facing grace hardships due to frequent power disruption.
Inhabitants of the Zandafaran village allege that they are facing hardships as their 100 KW electric transformer gutted five times in last three month and they fail to understand what the department is doing by repeatedly repairing it.
They said that they approached the higher officials of the department so many times for a new transformer but they are not paying any attention.
“The workshops of PDD have become den of corruption for the technicians replace transformers. Our transformer was in good condition but they provided us the dead one,” alleged a local Ajaiz Ahmad.
Executive Engineer (Exn) power development department (PDD) Baramulla Dalbir Singh confirmed that the transformer of said village was damaged five times in past three months, but it all due to overloading. “Yes the transformer of the said village damaged five times in past three months and every time we repair it at our Baramulla workshop which indicates that people are consuming electricity more than its capacity.
“There are only 45 houses depends on it and around 30 kilowatt will be their load, now we are making a plan to handle this situation and hope it will not damage in future” the official said. He said that we are not happy if people of any area will suffer but people have to make judicious use of power.
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