{"id":13891,"date":"2018-12-28T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:51:29","slug":"why-cant-there-be-uninterrupted-power-supply-when-our-water-resources-are-being-exploited-asks-kea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"Why can\u2019t there be uninterrupted power supply, when our water resources are being exploited, asks KEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i><i> Expressing serious concern over the power crises in the Valley, the Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan has said that \u201cthrough these deliberate conspiracies the government is systemically ensuring that business community in Kashmir is unable to revive business activities and life in the Valley has been further deteriorated trough \u201cpoorest every power supply\u201d.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cAs if the government is resorting to some revengeful tactics that Kashmir is witnessing worst ever power supplies this winter. The electricity remains off for most part of the day while low voltage plays hide and seek other times,\u201d Khan who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) said in a statement issued to KNS.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>He said at a time when the business fraternity, particularly shopkeepers are struggling to restore activities, the poor power supply is actually sabotaging such efforts.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The KEA chairman Khan said in the given conditions it was difficult to restore tourism activities. \u201cUnless power supply is improved to level of decency, the tourism activities like hotels, restaurants and shops (boulevard area) can\u2019t operate,\u201d he said.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Accusing the PDD of wasting time in issuing curtailment programs, he said no such roaster was being followed and that it was the responsibility of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission to keep track of this mischief by the official machinery.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cWhen the curtailment schedule is not to be adhered to, it\u2019s better for the PDD to issue black posters instead,\u201d Khan said<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cWe only come across silly argument that power demand is more than the supply, why can\u2019t they make supply more than the demand?\u201d he asked.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Threatening to taking to streets, he asked the government to improve power supplies as per requirement. \u201cWhy can\u2019t there be uninterrupted power supply, when our water resources are being exploited?\u201d he asked.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Expressing serious concern over the power crises in the Valley, the Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan has said that \u201cthrough these deliberate conspiracies the government is systemically ensuring that business community in Kashmir is unable to revive business activities and life in the Valley has been further deteriorated trough \u201cpoorest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}