Sajad Hameed
Amidst the shivering cold, as winter approached the Kashmir valley, thousands of tourists are reaching the Kashmir valley to take a view of the breathtaking picturesque view of snowy mountains and hill stations including Gulmarg, Sonmarg and Pahalgam.
The mood is quite festive and the hotels are booked as many more tourists are arriving to the Kashmir valley in the coming days and the local administration is taking all preventive measures to ensure no covid positive enters the Kashmir valley.
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“Kashmir is a wonderful place, we have been here many times on new year, we love to come here on new years, this place has so much of fun to offer, trust me it is heaven,” Priyanka, a woman tourist from New Delhi who has come to Gulmarg to celebrate new year told The Kashmiriyat.
The administration has set-up testing centers at the airport where travelers have to initially undergo a Covid check, Tourists from all places of India are flocking to the valley to celebrate the new year here in the valley.
The tourists undoubtedly are having a wonderful time, however amid the times of Chillai Kalan- a 40 day period of harsh winter starting from December 21 when the night temperature drops to sub zero, the water tapes freeze and electricity becomes the first casuality.
Residents of various areas in the Kashmir valley are complaining that their areas are enveloped in darkness as frequent power cuts like every year have hit the valley this winter too. “The deteriorating power situation in south, north, and central Kashmir which includes the urban and rural localities, has left people distraught,” a local News Agency reported.
With the onset of the Autumn, the power situation takes a turn for the worse due to which locals remain confined indoors and every walk of life is hit.
The students in the Kashmir valley are facing the biggest problems due to repeated power cuts as their exams are going on these days.
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“Nothing ever changes in Kashmir, the power crisis have gone worse in the rural areas and urban localities as well, we just open our laptops to study and the next moment we have to run for warming ourselves as electricity disappears very frequently, the power schedule is just a notion,” Mohammed Waseem, a research scholar from Kashmir university told The Kashmiriyat.
He said that Kashmir is made for tourists and locals have no stake here. “They ensure every facility reaches the tourists, while the sufferings of locals go for a tossing every now and then.”
The residents complain that they are paying the electricity fees regularly despite which the situation is not changing. “The power employees only appear at the time of collection of fees and later disappear as there is no schedule of electricity in the valley,” Mohammed Abdullah, a resident of Tangmarg told The Kashmiriyat.
The Consumers say that power schedules are secretly changed overnight and although loud claims are made in local dailies but not implemented on the ground, consumers are fed up with frequent unavailability of power supply.
They added that despite sit-ins and protests, the officials of the department were not being affected and the problems of the consumers were increasing day by day as more tourists gather in the valley to celebrate new years eve.
The Local residents say that during the installation of electricity meters, the department concerned promised the residents that there will be an uninterrupted power supply, but that promise also proved to be a mirage on the ground.