locals miffed at the protracted unscheduled power cuts being experienced in the region for the past five days, locked the sub-divisional office of the Power department and staged a protest in lalkuan on Monday. Heavy police deployment was done after considering the intense agitation by the villagers.
Furious over the unscheduled power cut for the last five days in the region, the hundreds of villagers’ staged protest and shouted anti-department slogans during the protest.
The villagers lamented that the department has been implementing seven to eight hours of regular power cut in days thus made life miserable for the residents.
According to them, the problem of shortage of potable water has also increased manifold due to the frequent power cuts. The agitators and sub divisional officer, Sanjay Kumar also had verbal confrontation over the power cut.
The agitators also demanded that State power department to inform prior to the scheduled power cut in the region. However, Kumar tried to pacify residents telling them about the problem being faced by the department in the last five days.
He said that the power supply is normally gets disrupted in the inclement weather and maintenance works are the only feature available for resuming the power supply again in the affected areas. The villagers lamented that the power supply is always reported to be disrupted round the year and it has turned extremely difficult for them to survive in the hot and humid climate.
The agitators also lamented that the frequent power cuts have been also hampering the studies of their children and demanded immediate action to redress their grievances.
Kirti lohani, Kailash Chander Pant, Gurdayal Mehra, Pramod Kaloni, Beena Joshi, Arjun Bisht, Chandan Bora, Suryapratap Singh, Kedar Danu, Umesh Suyal, Anil Kumar, Ramesh Baswal, Sameer Khan and many more were present.