28-03-2022 : Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CCI) Jammu while raising serious concern over the drive conducted by the Power Development Department to disconnect the power supply connections consumers in the Jammu region, has appealed to the Govt to immediately rollout an amnesty scheme for the power consumers so that these people are able to pay their power dues comfortably in equated installments.
Arun Gupta President Chamber of Commerce and Industries Jammu said that it is highly condemnable that during the ongoing drive the Power Department is even disconnecting the power supply connections of commercial establishments as well as residential areas which are just trying to come out of the tremendous economic setback
In a statement issued to media here today, Arun Gupta President Chamber of Commerce and Industries Jammu said that it is highly condemnable that during the ongoing drive the Power Department is even disconnecting the power supply connections of commercial establishments as well as residential areas which are just trying to come out of the tremendous economic setback during about two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. Strongly condemning the attitude of the Power Development Department, he said that this unwarranted and inequitable action by the authorities in the Power Department should be stopped immediately.
The CCI President said that people on the whole have just been trying to come out of Covid trauma after having suffered for two years on account of huge economic losses and now their children have resumed normal studies including higher studies and professional courses. In such a situation depriving these students of the power supply is gross injustice with them.
Asserting that Govt is never expected to be so cruel or harsh against its own people, CCI President Arun Gupta appealed to the UT Administration led by the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha to immediately order the halting of the aforesaid drive. Instead the Govt must introduce an appropriate Amnesty Scheme so that the power consumers are able to pay their power dues in easy equated installments under the said amnesty scheme, he added.