Power cut, power cut, power cut
Yes, three times a day. That’s the ‘current’ situation (pun intended).
A 3-hour cut in the day, a 1 hour cut in the night before getting to sleep and finally another 1 hour cut between mid-night to 6am. It’s now official 5-hours power cut daily. Unprecedented – is the term that comes to mind.
But should we be complaining? or be thankful to Government?
People in rural areas were protesting 9-hour power cuts daily. That too when we had 3-hour power cuts in the city last week.
WATRAP: Over 500 farmers and women staged a road roko here on Friday protesting unannounced powers cut for up to 9 hours every day in the last week. Bus services were crippled and shops remained closed for four hours.
Read more at: http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/30/stories/2008083060600600.htm
Now that we have 5-hour cut, the rural people might suffer longer. However, the much pampered Chennai city is not affected much. In Chennai, the power cut duration is increased only to one and half hour daily from their previous one hour cut. Perhaps, the official Tamilnadu begins & ends in Chennai and the remaining areas merely a tail that can be wagged as desired.
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Wow this is a powerful opinion. I guess we have to dream the day when there will be 0 power cut for Madurai.
That’s absolutely outrageous! I am wondering why this second Citizen treatment to non-Chennaiites and especially the Villagers that actually form the self-reliant India? That’s right, since the Villagers are self-reliant, the Govt must have assumed that that 90% of villages are already powering themselves with solar and bio-gas power.
I don’t think there is anyone that can use their heads to solve the power crisis in the State. While, the opposition hardly cares to address the plight of the people, I think we need someone like modern day Va.O.C to produce electricity from alternative energy sources!
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