TRAL SHUTS AGAINST ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ HIKE IN ELECTRICITY CHARGES

Pulwama Nov, 19(PTK) The Tral township in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday observed a complete shutdown to protest against an unprecedented ‘hike’ in the electricity tariff by Power Development Department.

Decrying the hike in electricity charges in Kashmir, the locals said that the hike in electricity charges is overburdening a common man. “We want the department to stop overcharging electricity consumers,” a protestor said

The call for shutdown and protest was given by Citizen’s Council Tral and protest was led by Chairman of the Tral Citizens Council Farooq Ahmed Trali.

Speaking to scores of people during the protest march Trali said, “We tried to appraise the issue of power-hike on numerous occasions at several offices, but no action has been taken so far.”

The shops and business establishments in the area remained shut, while traffic movement was thin on the streets of the South Kashmir township.

MD Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited, Aejaz Asad said that that no hike in Power Tariff has been done by the Regulator. Infact, tariff levels in Jammu and Kashmir remain unchanged for the past 04 years.(PTK)