Jonah Achumi
With the onset of the summer season the power supply is now getting worse with each passing day. Since the beginning of the heat, most parts of the Dimapur town is having continuous disruption of power-supply every now and then. I wonder what is the exact problem behind our ever erratic power supply. Phone calls to the Metha sub-station where power supply for western Dimapur side is done by this center, the only answer one gets is due to load shedding from the Nagarjan main station and calling up the main power transmission center at Nagarjan the answer always is either no supply from Shillong or the higher-ups ordered to cut supply since it was having a load problem. What happened to the transformer which was said to be installed shortly and solve our power woes? Is it really going to be installed or would that be a tale that wasn't true? Infact, it is almost more than a year now.
Of all the days in a week, Sunday is the day when most of the business establishments, schools & colleges, banks, offices, industrial units are closed. So load demand and supply should not be the problem. Yet Sunday seems to be the worst of all the days of power-cuts than any other days. Thoughts of attending a church service are dashed as there is no current to iron the clothes, pump the water for cooking, take bath or to wash the car etc. at the right time. After the service, taking a rest by watching a movie or some nice documentaries seems like an illusion with the absence of the electric current. Even the inverter batteries cannot seem to hold much with these long power cuts.
So what does a regular average citizen like me who pays the electric bill regularly and sincerely got to deserve all these? I cannot afford those giant-size generator set which our politicians and bureaucrats uses that they don't bother about the common man's plight. A minister's name and one top businessman's name came out in the newspapers during the routine checking about a month back by the Electrical Dept. who were caught hooking and tampering the meters. Fine examples are they setting indeed. And were they just left off as usual by paying some measly amount by their chamchas or greasing the palms of some people? I really wonder when so much money can be spent on festivals, foreign tours, imported luxurious cars, etc. a basic necessity of this age like a sufficient electric supply cannot even be provided to its citizens. Shame on the government and shame on us too........when election comes we forget all these sufferings!
