Kulgam, 25-Jan; The residents of Nillow village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district are facing tough time due to non-availability of an electricity transformer from last one week.A group of locals here while blaming the authorities of being in deep slumber told CNS that families of village have been left without electricity. “The government claims to have lighten every home in the country but the non-availability of the electricity in our village deflate these tall claims.”They further said, “When sun goes down only a few solar lights and kerosene lumps break the darkness in the village and the worst part of our sufferings is that students are using kerosene lumps to study.”“The in the area developed some technical snag week ago and since then we are reeling under darkness and Power Development Department failed to repair our damaged transformer”, alleged locals.Residents here demanded that government should install a 100 kV transformer in the village. “We have been knocking the door of PDD department but authorities are ignoring our repeated pleas.”(CNS)
