WEDNESDAY, 02 MAY
2012 23:17
PNS | BALANGIR
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Protesting the irregular water supply, low voltage and load
shedding in Balangir town, residents under the banner of Balangir District
Citizen Action Committee on Wednesday staged a dharna before the PHED executive
engineer’s office and WESCO office.
“We demand uninterrupted water and electricity
supply to the town and restoration of the public utility services that have
virtually collapsed here,” said Promod Mishra of Balangir District Citizen
Action Committee.
Earlier, we had intimated about our problems to
the district administration but it took no action to solve them. So, we are
staging the dharna. We also condemn the apathetic attitude of the local MLA and
MP, Mishra added and threatened to intensify the agitation if the problems were
not solved soon. “We may gherao the MP and MLA,” Mishra disclosed.
“We thought that this summer we would be able
to provide water to the scarce areas at least once in every alternate day. But
due to many reasons, including break down in power supply, we are giving water
in those areas once in every three days. However, once the water supply project
from the Tel river near Tarbha in Sonepur district is completed, the water
crisis would be solved, said PHED executive engineer Bhakta Kab Das.
“The electricity shortage in the town is being
felt during the peak hours mainly due to less supply of power to the town.
Against the requirement of 48MW during the peak hours, we are getting around
34-36MW resulting in load shedding of a minimum of two hours in the morning and
one and a half hours in the evening.
A major reason of electricity shortfall is
extreme fall in hydro power generation,” said WESCO executive engineer Yogesh
Chandra Patra. Unless hydropower generations increase, the situation is not
likely to improve in the future, Patra added.
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