Unscheduled outages: As winter sets in, power crisis worsens in Kashmir
Hindustan TimesDespite the assurance of the administration to improve the electricity scenario, the power crisis in Kashmir valley is getting worse as the temperature dip. The valley is facing unscheduled power outages over and above the four and a half to eight hour per day curtailment, as decided in the schedule released by Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited last month. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani Sogami called it ”one of the worst power crises in Kashmir” that has left the residents upset with power outages of eight to 10 hours per day across Kashmir. The corporation had said that the non-metered areas of summer capital Srinagar will face power cuts for eight hours every day and it will be four and a half hours in the metered areas. “Despite the assurance by the power department that an additional 500 MW of electricity supply would be purchased from the northern grid, Kashmir continues to grapple with unscheduled power cuts that are creating chaos in the daily lives of its residents,” said KTA president Aijaz Shahdhar.
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