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JAMMU DIARY
Transformers pose threat to lives

They are walking on razor’s edge, just two steps away from possible death. Dangerously located naked transmission lines and voltage transformers in the winter capital continue to pose a serious threat to the residents.

The Power Development Department has installed a number of voltage transformers in the city but without properly covering them.

Transmission wires without insulation and the transformers without any cage around it are a common sight in the winter capital.

Perhaps, the department would wake up from its deep slumber only after a tragedy strikes the residents.

Teachers turn contractors

A majority of government teachers as well as non-teaching staff in Mendhar Tehsil of Poonch are working as contractors. They are more concerned about marking their attendance and leaving the premises immediately so that they can take stock of the work at the site of their contracts. One wonders why the administration is maintaining a dead silence on the matter which concerns the future of thousands of students.