Electricity: An Incomplete Promise

'Times Of India' 
Electricity: An Incomplete Promise  

Villages Jia and Houja: Are still in dark.

Yash Khajuria 

Jammu January 04:

 “A rotten apple spoils the barrel” 

The proverb above fits exact when we come to know that despite of regular claims by the government for developing the rural pockets, the villages of Jia and Houja in district Doda is enough to defame all the claims by the Administration Since they are still deprived of basic amenities like electricity.

Bringing aside the Tall claims of Government about development of rural areas in Jammu province, villages of Panchayat Halqa Jia of Tehsil Thatri, District Doda is showing the exceptional scenario of the helplessness.

Basic amenities like electricity have yet to light their homes; the village reflects a perfect picture of being an area behaved like Step by the authorities.

The villages Jia and Houja of the area have not yet facilitated with the electricity not to mention of electricity while the villagers of Jia said that despite of several knock on the door Steps of the concerned authorities why they couldn’t yet have electricity, is better known to the authorities.

     The whole Panchayt Jia is consisted with the population comprising about more than 3000 inhabitants in it, “there are some houses in the villages who managed electricity for themselves by making an alternate Connection from Village Tippri- 2 kilometers away from Jia , there is no power and we are paying power rent that too without having it” said a local.         Pertinent to mention that Sarpanch of the Panchayat Halqa Jia, - Ram Rattan along with a social activist - Kuldeep Kumar Rao have also presented the condition of the villages in written demanding for an Electric Transformer to village Jia, ahead the table of several Officers Concerned including Chief Engineer, Power Devlopment Department (PDD), The Copy Of Which has been delivered to Superintending Engineer, Elect. Maintenance and R. E. Circle-III, Batote for information by the Chief engineer, (PDD) but nothing has been happened so far, as the applications are moving by tables.

  Even after that when the deputation went to the Mohd. Shareef Naaz, MLA concerning demanding either Transformer or Solar Lights for the above mentioned Villages. They got disappointment as the MLA has advocated that providing such amenities are costing more than rupees 10 lakhs and are not affordable to him.

However almost 15 days ago, solar lights have been installed in their neighboring village but Village Jia is still in the dark.

“What could more dreadful that despite being an area which receives no electricity, the government has even failed to provide the solar lights to them” said K K Rao.

He said that every time an estimate for providing such needs has made by the authorities but when it comes to the on ground work nothing has been done so far, even the last time the estimate was made in 2009, though 2 years has been passed and we are still in the Dark.