JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha on Wednesday chaired a High-Level meeting with a team of well-known experts from the Power sector and senior officials from Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited to revamp the Power Supply System in J&K, here at Raj Bhavan.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha chairing high level meeting of team of experts from Power sector
BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department; Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary, Power Development Department and Information Department and Raja Yaqoob Farooq, MD JKPDCL attended the meeting.
The team of experts from the power sector was led by Chairperson Board of Directors, IIT Bhubaneswar and former Chairman and MD PGCIL, Dr Rajendra Prasad Singh.
Snow In January
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A view of Lal Chowk during heavy snowfall, in Srinagar, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
As the year’s first snowfall draped Kashmir, beginning on January 2, life came to a standstill with people and the administration both choosing to stay homes till sunshine brought back the sheen to the streets.
The people reacted to the snowfall as per their own requirements: tourists were happy that they will have fun;
Harisa-makers were excited that they will have better footfalls; workers in PDD, SMC, and the PHE had their share of the crisis in managing the impact of the mess. People, by and large, were tense because snow, especially a heavier fall, seriously compromises the services. That was perhaps why, amidst a congratulatory campaign on social media, people responded in a way as if a calamity had hit Kashmir.
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Srinagar: Power supply in most of Kashmir was restored but roads still lay under snow even in Srinagar on Thursday. The divisional administration said that all essential services were expected to be restored completely by Friday across Kashmir.
The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway remained shut for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday but flights resumed after four days at Srinagar Airport, bringing relief to thousands of passengers, especially tourists, stranded in Kashmir.
The heavy snowfall over the past few days has left normal life crippled across Kashmir valley. The movement of vehicles was thin on the roads due to the slippery conditions created by snow. People in Srinagar city complained that even after so much time, no robust work of snow clearance was visible anywhere in the city, with the lanes and bylanes wearing the same odd look of accumulated sn
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