Omar orders suspension of power to VVIP homes in Srinagar
January 7th, 2012 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANSJammu, Jan 7 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday ordered lit-up VIP areas in the darkened Kashmir Valley to be taken off the essential services feeder.
The Chief Minister tweeted: “Have ordered the Power Department to take VVIP areas off the essential feeder service. No islands of light while most areas in darkness.”
Omar issued these orders when he was told by officials that VIP areas were on the feeder line supplying power to hospitals, communication centres, water supply schemes and dewatering pumps. This was soon after his arrival in Srinagar on Saturday after the city’s airport runway was opened for air traffic.
Most of Srinagar’s VVIPs including Omar, his father union minister Farooq Abdullah and opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti live at Gupkar Road, a posh neighbourhood in the city.
The Kashmir Valley has been suffering a power cut since Friday evening when the two lines suplying power to Kashmir from the northern grid snapped in the Pir Panjal mountains which separate the Valley from Jammu.
On reaching Srinagar, Omar tweeted: “Am in Srinagar to oversee the restoration efforts but we are in for at least a night of massive disruption.”
The power crisis in Kashmir had provoked protests and one youth was killed Jan 2 in Boniyar town near Uri in Barmulla district, when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel guarding the sensitive Uri Hydro-electric Project allegedly fired at protestors.
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