Villages hit by power cuts 
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Parori-Darhal (Rajouri), June 29
Voicing their resentment over continuous power and water shortage, Parori-Darhal villagers have accused the government of neglecting their woes for the past many years.
They alleged that the Power Development Department (PDD) has been supplying electricity just for 11 hours a day for the last five years.
The village elders, mostly illiterate, chose to remain silent and have least expectation from the government.
But the present generation, equipped with the power of education and knowledge about their rights, said the government had a bias against the rural areas.
“We are getting electricity for just 11 hours a day and that too is erratic,”said Mian Ahmed, a village elder.
Mustafa Ahmed, a student, complained that whereas the government made all efforts to improve the living conditions in the urban areas, it did little to provide even the basic facilities in the villages.
“In our village, the department supplies power for just five hours during the day and six hours in the nights,” he said.
The officials of PDD were not available for comments. However, a source in the department claimed that the authorities stop the power supply to these villages to provide the same in Jammu and Srinagar cities.