"Ulte baans barelli ko"
The shops get closed very early in the evening. There are no street lights to guide the late arrivals at bus stand kishtwar. There is no hustle and bustle in the markets after the dusk. The mobile owners move from place to place and pay heavy charges for getting their batteries charged in order to communicate with their nears and dears. The mechanics, machines, electricians, photographers, photocopiers all have become idle, courtesy "NHPC".
The much hyped developments of Kishtwar got busted like an air balloon when a tower of 132 KV line maintained by NHPC got collapsed due to heavy rains near Doda. The authorities of NHPC had no alternative or in place programme to foresee this eventuality and to provide solace to the thousands of households who are limping in the darkness for last more than two weeks continuously.
Mufti Mohammad Syaeed Former Chief Minister of state has very recently highly criticized the NHPC for making the people of state hostage as the corporation has exploited the water resources of this hilly district and there is no provision or programme with them even for local area development not to speak of providing them electricity free of cost which was otherwise the basic due of the public of Kishtwar.
NHPC has been generating 390 MW power from the Dul Hasti Power Station at Kishtwar and this entire quantum of electricity is transported to national grid out of state. The state of Jammu and Kashmir becomes the purchaser and responsibility of transporting back the same electricity to Kishtwar has again been entrusted to this Corporation who has shown very little interest in the past for mitigating the sufferings of people of Kishtwar. The glaring examples are neglect of Palmar Road by the said Corporation who never spent money on this road for the betterment of people and many accidents on this road took many precious lives for which the said corporation is wholly and solely responsible. They had an eye upon some other prestigious projects like Budsar, Pakal-Dool. Which saw rough weather due to involvement of high altitude national park and this agency neglected every thing till they could grasp the grapes.
This is a question of concern for every body where people fail to understand as to why this corporation has choosen a path of caring the power out of this mountainous district and then undertaken the responsibility to bring it back through their transmission lines upto kishtwar for public consumption. History is witness that this transmission line has seen many faults in the past and public has been held as hostage by the "Babus" of the corporation. On public demonstrations they have been unconcern and have not even thought of having some alternate plan. It is believed that by installation of converter equipments worth few lakhs they could provide electricity directly from the production of Dul Hastim project. May be the maintainance expenditure of 132 KV will be on higher side but the reason of putting people to trouble is the will of NHPC. People say that the old proverb of Ulte bans bareli ko (carying coal to new castle) is quite fit to the situation.
The shops get closed very early in the evening. There are no street lights to guide the late arrivals at bus stand kishtwar. There is no hustle and bustle in the markets after the dusk. The mobile owners move from place to place and pay heavy charges for getting their batteries charged in order to communicate with their nears and dears. The mechanics, machines, electricians, photographers, photocopiers all have become idle, courtesy "NHPC".
The much hyped developments of Kishtwar got busted like an air balloon when a tower of 132 KV line maintained by NHPC got collapsed due to heavy rains near Doda. The authorities of NHPC had no alternative or in place programme to foresee this eventuality and to provide solace to the thousands of households who are limping in the darkness for last more than two weeks continuously.
Mufti Mohammad Syaeed Former Chief Minister of state has very recently highly criticized the NHPC for making the people of state hostage as the corporation has exploited the water resources of this hilly district and there is no provision or programme with them even for local area development not to speak of providing them electricity free of cost which was otherwise the basic due of the public of Kishtwar.
NHPC has been generating 390 MW power from the Dul Hasti Power Station at Kishtwar and this entire quantum of electricity is transported to national grid out of state. The state of Jammu and Kashmir becomes the purchaser and responsibility of transporting back the same electricity to Kishtwar has again been entrusted to this Corporation who has shown very little interest in the past for mitigating the sufferings of people of Kishtwar. The glaring examples are neglect of Palmar Road by the said Corporation who never spent money on this road for the betterment of people and many accidents on this road took many precious lives for which the said corporation is wholly and solely responsible. They had an eye upon some other prestigious projects like Budsar, Pakal-Dool. Which saw rough weather due to involvement of high altitude national park and this agency neglected every thing till they could grasp the grapes.
This is a question of concern for every body where people fail to understand as to why this corporation has choosen a path of caring the power out of this mountainous district and then undertaken the responsibility to bring it back through their transmission lines upto kishtwar for public consumption. History is witness that this transmission line has seen many faults in the past and public has been held as hostage by the "Babus" of the corporation. On public demonstrations they have been unconcern and have not even thought of having some alternate plan. It is believed that by installation of converter equipments worth few lakhs they could provide electricity directly from the production of Dul Hastim project. May be the maintainance expenditure of 132 KV will be on higher side but the reason of putting people to trouble is the will of NHPC. People say that the old proverb of Ulte bans bareli ko (carying coal to new castle) is quite fit to the situation.
1 comment:
the people of kishtwar are beacame slaves and they dont like freedom why are you asking for "apna zameer ko jagoo" they dont like light they like to live in dark shadow.we have large amount of water resource but not for us it is for other states.
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