Rabindranath Biswas
Bllyground, Sept 28: As per report, an electric cable drawn from Police Station Billiground (Pinakinagar village) towards Shantipur village near the house of Mr. Anil Sil is stated to be faulty and as a result, the people in this area are experiencing the troubles of the incessant power cuts. Since the cable is betraying, the residents want the entire line/cable to be replaced with a heavy duty one so that they may get relief from an errant power supply.
Mr. Manojit Halder, Pradhan, GP Harinagar has recently shot a letter to the Superintending Engineer, Electricity Department, A & N Administration, Port Blair apprising him of these shortcomings and urging for their early redressal, the report further said.
He added in his letter the Electricity Department’s Site Office at Billiground has been functioning without vehicles for transporting working materials since a long time. The want of vehicles is taking its heavy toll on the routine works of the site Office. The concerned officials are often seen to carry bamboo ladders and other equipments on their own motorbike to reach the site for carrying out the repair and maintenance works, disclosed by the Mr. Manojit Halder, Pradhan, GP Harinagar. The lone Site Office at Nimbudera has a vast area (Gram Panchayat Swadeshnagar, Harinagar and Basantipur) in terms of execution of its works, and when the site office of the dept. is without a vehicle, the staffs managing the affair often find themselves in indescribable state, he further observed.
Apart from these issues, the Nimbudera Site Office suffers the setback of non-availability of sufficient numbers of permanent staff. The Site Office is at present starved of Meter Readers, Lineman, Labourers etc. As a result, the routine works as well as repair & maintenance works in emergency are being severely affected; and ultimately the residents in this areas have to suffer the worst, as claimed by the Pradhan.
