Acute Power Crisis in Birpur Industrial complex
13/12/2017
JAMMU: An emergency Executive Committee Meeting of Birpur Small Scale Industries Association was held today on 12.12.2017 at BSSIA office at Birpur Complex under the Chairmanship of President Deepak Dhawan. The main issue under discussion was the power crisis in Birpur complex. The Birpur Small Scale Industries Associ ation, Bari Brahmana highlighted the grave/ acute power crisis in Birpur Industrial Complex.
“There are frequent power cuts/ interruptions during the day time. 10 to 20 minutes a cut at least 5-6 times in a day is a routine manner and Some times there is a failure of 5-6 hours of power supply.
We are all 100% metered units and pay huge tariffs every month. We are paying demand charges for such an
irregular power supply.
Besides that the machines get damaged putting the unit holders to financial losses to lakhs of rupees. The expenses on running the DG Sets are very high and not affordable for small scale Units. The Claims of PDD Depts. of interruption free and 24*7 power supply is not in sight on ground.
The Infrastructure like conductors and other allied equipment's are in a dilapidated condition" said Dhawan. They appealed Minister for Power Nirmal Singh and Minister for Industries & Commerce Chander Prakash Ganga to intervene in the said matter and save tiny and small scale units from losses. Others present were Ankur Jain (Sr. Vice President), Jatin Sachdeva (Vice President), Gagan Jain (Gen. Secy), Sharad Malhotra (Treasurer), Romesh Badial, S. C. Dutta, Ravnish Gulati, Ajay Gupta, Kirti Khajuria, Satpal Jain, and Tarun Gupta.
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