Power cuts amid severe cold push Kashmiris to traditional ways
The HinduThe residents of Kashmir are going back to traditional ways of coping with the intense cold wave conditions as frequent and unscheduled power cuts have rendered modern heating gadgets useless. Over the past couple decades, residents of urban Kashmir have done away with traditional heating arrangements -- including wood-based hamams, bukharis, and wicker-claypot kangris -- as the supply of electricity improved year on year But now, with the region experiencing one of its toughest winters in recent memory, the power fupply in most parts of Kashmir has been erratic at best, rendering the electric heating solutions redundant. “But people in power have a habit of proving us wrong.” With limited LPG and kerosene supply in the open market, power cuts have fuelled business for wood and charcoal vendors. An official of the Kashmir Power Development Corporation said that while there had been load-shedding due to the sharp rise in power demand during winter, the claims of 16-hour cuts may be exaggerated.
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