Jaisalmer : Electricity crisis in rural areas of Jaisalmer district is becoming worse day by day. Farmers doing tube well farming are extremely troubled by the lack of electricity and inadequate voltage. This is the reason that on Monday, people of Ramgarh and Kuchdi villages surrounded the office of the Superintending Engineer and Discom in Jaisalmer and submitted a memorandum regarding the electricity problem and raised slogans there. Villagers told that agricultural connections have been connected to the power line of Ramgarh village. Due to which tripping is occurring 50 to 60 times in the village and power supply remains disrupted for a long time.
Due to which the drinking water supply is being affected due to lack of electricity supply to the water supply department. The villagers said in the memorandum that due to power tripping, household electrical appliances are burning and electricity-based businesses have come to a standstill. Apart from this, as per the rules, there is only 6 hours of electricity supply for agricultural connections, due to which, with the connivance of the officials, agricultural connections of Ramgarh village have been connected to the 24-hour running line, due to which the electricity supply of the entire village is being disrupted. The villagers demanded smoothening of electricity supply to Ramgarh village within 7 days by separating agricultural connections from the village line and warned of gheraoing Ramgarh GSS and locking it if the problem is not resolved. Villagers like Malam Singh, Piyush Giri, Kanhaiyalal Bhargava, Khubchand Khatri, Dilip Singh Bhati, Pradeep Garg, Ajaypal Singh, Purushottam Soni, Ramesh Kumar, Sawaiman Chauhan, Pradeep Khatri, Gul Mohammad etc. were present among those who surrounded them.
Agricultural work completely affected
On the other hand, the farmers who came from Kuchdi told that there are hundreds of tube well agricultural farms in the area. The crisis of electricity supply is so severe that farmers are not able to do farming and the seeds of expensive prices are lying in the ground. He told that whenever a complaint is made to the officials of the electricity department, their rote answer is that the supply will be fine but no one knows when it will happen. Farmers said that their agricultural equipment worth thousands of rupees is getting damaged due to irregular supply of electricity. He demanded that if the discom cannot provide smooth electricity supply then it should not even pay electricity bills to them.
