Ghulam Hassan Mir takes the issue with Lt. Governor’s officeSrinagar , July 16: : Apni Party Senior Vice President Ghulam Hassan Mir on Friday urged the Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha to revisit the decision affecting a steep hike in electricity tariff that has added to the burden of a common man in Jammu and Kashmir. Mir in a statement issued to raised the issue with the Lt. Governor’s office and the top officers in the administration, and remarked that the people in Jammu and Kashmir are already suffering from a distressed economic situation and an arbitrary increase in power tariff is totally unbearable. “Today morning, I received various reports from Gulmarg constituency wherein consumers have been dispatched with the bills showing manifold increase in their normal electricity dues. This is totally an unwarranted decision that has been taken by the power department without taking the sufferings of the people into consideration,” he said. Mir observed that the Covid pandemic has crippled the economy in J&K like any other place in the country but the residents of Jammu and Kashmir had already received a blow to their per capita income since early 2019.
