Shops,biz establishments remained shut in Jammu

They demanded uninterrupted power supply to business establishments in the Jammu city.

PDD has not been able to meet the expectations,JCCI President Y V Sharma said.

“People of Jammu started crying on the issue because of the repeated power cuts,breakdowns and interruptions,both scheduled and unscheduled,resulting into losses of industrial production,losses in the commercial sector,discomforts in the domestic sector and to thousands of pilgrims visiting both Mata Vaishno Devi and Sri Amarnath,” he said.

Authorities have not fulfilled their assurances and power supply is worsening with every passing day,he said.

PDD launched the voluntary load disclosure scheme (VLDS) without proper guidance to consumers. Even honest consumers are being harassed by unannounced inspections,he said.

“The chamber has failed to understand that the time and the motive behind the inspections,especially when there is no power supply available to the people.

“Chamber is for a strong and efficient system which does not allow any pilferage of power. But we strongly protest against harassment of genuine consumers and government and PDD trying to divert the attention of the people from their own failure and is management of the available power supply and trying to prove that it is the consumer who is at fault,” he said.