End to paucity need of the hour

Just a few hours of electricity is being supplied to the people a day after the government has clearly mentioned that power curtailment is being done in wake of the limited power availability, but the ground situation quite difficult as the people have been facing immense hardships as hardly a few hours of electricity is being witnessed in the parts of Kashmir. The consumers are aghast over the move of further power curtailments amidst serving the abrupt increase in the tariff in both metered as well as in non-metered areas. With people continuing to suffer for the want of electricity, there has been an official statement to make people understand why the situation has reached to the limited power availability in the valley. One cannot expect the silence from the administration at this juncture as in both the cases including the irregular power cuts and the hefty power bills, the people are being pushed to the wall. Silence at this juncture cannot be justified, rather the government needs to come clear over the issue and make sure that at least in the absence of adequate electricity, the power bills to the people are served as per the usage only. The government has to take a call in this regard and make sure that the tariff is not hiked until and unless the power scenario increases and at the same time, needs to take measures to end the power paucity here, which the administration has been promising from the last couple of years.