Tseminyu, May 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Voluntary Consumers' Organization Tseminyu Unit (NVCOTU) has appealed the power department to deliver justice and provide smooth supply of power to the sub-division without any hiccups.
In a press release, the NVCO Tseminyu Unit accused the power department Wokha division of meting out “step motherly treatment” to the people of Tseminyu Sub Division and questioned whether the department is “judiciously executing its duties”.
The NVCO Tseminyu also reminded of the April 24 press statement wherein it had served a 10-day ultimatum to the State Power Department demanding immediate restoration of the damaged feeder transformer, transfer and posting of JE (Power) Tseminyu Sub Division and installation of 1MVA transformer for Tseminyu Town.
While informing that the feeder transformer broke down on April 9, the unit alleged that the department did not even bother to lift the damaged transformer even after a lapse of 8 days though several appeals were made from different quarters.
Narrating the sequence of events that followed, the NVCO Tseminyu Unit stated that it arranged a vehicle on its own expenditure to carry the damaged transformer to central store Dimapur on the 9th day. To the utter surprise of the organization, the transformer was not unloaded making the vehicle to hold for a day for reasons “best known to the department”, it stated and added that the NVCOTU was left with no other option but to incur the extra expenditure.
Consequently, the department restored the feeder transformer on May 3 which broke down two days later. Following this, the department again turned a “deaf ear” for 10 days. On the 11th day, the department responded and loaded the transformer down to central store Dimapur, it claimed.
Insisting that electricity is one of the basic amenities of day to day modern life, the NVCO Tseminyu Unit questioned as to why the department is not serious towards the demands and appeals made by the people.
“Are the NVCOTU in particular and the public in general the second class citizens where the department can do anything according to its whims and fancies keeping aside the genuine appeals and demands?” it added.
