DJ Venkatesh
Sitanagar, May 22: The general public and PRI members from Kalighat and Nishchintapur today staged protest in front of Electricity office at Sitanagar, Diglipur.
The protest was organized to express public anger against heavy load shedding at Kalighat and Nischintapur villages.
They also demanded that load shedding schedule must be intimated to public well in advance.
The public stopped the Executive Engineer and other department vehicles from entering inside the office premisis.
Few weeks ago the public of Sitanagar had also protested in front of the Electricity office. Since then Police party was deployed alogwith Private security guards.
The Ward No. 9 member, Smti Anjana Mistry and ward no 5 member, Shri M. Raju met the EE along with the public.
The Executive Engineer Mr. Hamza assured that proper schedule will be issued within this evening and same schedule will be applicable for Diglipur and Kalighat from today.
He also said that the there is a demand for 3.5 MW power at present and the department is able to supply only 1.5 MW of power at present. Moreover two AE and one JE are also on leave.
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