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Power crisis in Rajouri
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, May 22
Amid sweltering heat, this city is reeling under a severe power crisis. The Power Development Department (PDD) for the past few days has started imposing massive unscheduled power cuts that has hit students as well as common masses.

College students, who are taking their examination, complained that since hot and sultry conditions continue to prevail during this summer, the unscheduled power cuts are adding to their hardships.

“The agony of the students can be gauged from the fact that the authorities are even enforcing unscheduled power cuts during early morning, evening and night hours when the majority of students study,” Arshiya Sood, a science student, said.“The mercury is rising every passing day and it has become quite difficult to pass time.

Things have gone worse for us as the PDD enforces unscheduled power cuts. The government should take account of the sufferings of the residents and direct the PDD to resort to scheduled power cuts only,” Suneel Sharma, a social worker, said.

A junior-level officer of the PDD said: “Even as the PDD has to resort to unscheduled power cuts, the residents too have a role to play for checking the load. They don’t make judicious use of power and use various electronic gadgets. They should save power to overcome this problem,” officer said.