Sri Vijaya Puram, Aug 1: The State President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Shri Anil Kumar Tiwari has written to the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration requesting him to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the Islands.
In his letter, Tiwari drew the attention of the Chief Secretary towards the erratic power supply in A & N Islands specially at Sri Vijaya Puram from last few days. The people in general are very much agitated over the issue of frequent power cut without any previous notice by the department of Electricity.
“I am in receipt of large number of representations from the Elected Representative of the Panchayati Raj institution like Panchayat Samity, Zilla Parishad and Municipal Council regarding the continuous disruption of Power Supply in entire Islands particularly in Sri Vijaya Puram. This leads to very bad impression in the minds of the people and it is required to urgently attend to the issue on war footing to solve the problem without further delay”, said the State President.
Anil Kumar Tiwari requested to issue regular advance intimation regarding the area wise power cut schedule, so that people can take precaution and take care of the power outage as per their requirements. “It is very unfortunate that the power cut is done without any intimation from anyone at any point of time”, he said.
“This needs to be addressed immediately, as done in the past. Kindly issue a press release from the Department of Electricity about this matter, so that people are made aware of the problem and the time line by which it can be resolved”, added the State President BJP.