{"id":99656,"date":"2016-10-03T23:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2016\/10\/03\/residents-protest-6-day-black-out\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T23:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:52:21","slug":"residents-protest-6-day-black-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2016\/10\/03\/residents-protest-6-day-black-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents protest 6-day black out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Irate residents of three colonies of Dimapur City- Landmark, Supply and Duncan- along with GBs and council members blocked the stretch of the NH 36 along Dhobinalla-Firing Range road at Duncan-PWD junction, for more than two hours Monday morning, demanding immediate restoration of power supply to the area.<\/span><\/div>\n
It may be pointed out that power supply to the area had been cut off since over six days, after the 500 KVA transformer, that looked like a relic, vacillated between life and death before it conked out with a bang on September 28. <\/div>\n
The situation was not unforeseen, in fact the Association of Power Engineers Nagaland(APEN), had issued frequent warnings about the impending breakdown of power system. APEN warned that transformers were overloaded and equipments could not be maintained- all due to scarce funds.  The department hurriedly managed to get its hands on a transformer but unfortunately, the capacity was only 250 KVA, half the capacity of the earlier transformer. The consequence was that the 250 KVA transformer also conked out as it could not handle the load demand.  Residents of the colonies have been waiting in vain for some respite from the heat and humidity besides mosquitoes but the DoP could hardly do anything much except give assurances. The residents claimed that the DoP had made assurances to replace the damaged transformer with another 500 kVA transformer but that did not materialise. After being forced to suffer for days and nights on end, the residents took to the streets and blocked the main road in protest. <\/div>\n
\u201cCitizens have been suffering and are fed up of the excuses made by the department and such protest would be an example for others too,\u201d said one protestor. DoP officials comprising JE, SDO (Electrical), EE (Electrical) along with police personnel reached the spot to try and negotiate with the irate residents in order to have the road blockades removed.<\/div>\n
 DoP officials also assured the residents that a transformer would be installed as replacement but this failed to cut ice as the residents held their ground that they will block the road till a replacement transformer was installed. <\/div>\n
The residents finally agreed to remove the more than three hours of road blockade when DoP officials promised that the replacement transformer would be brought to the site as replacement within one hour.  After an hour, the promised 500 KVA transformer arrived and was installed at the side of the road , signalling the end of the crisis.<\/div>\n
 Meanwhile, speaking to Nagaland Post, EE\/ electrical division, Er. Imesenkaba informed that the department had already made arrangements in the morning for bringing the \u201cnew\u201d transformer for installation. While acknowledging the hardship faced by the residents, Er. Imesenkaba however said public could have approached the higher authority and the officer in-charge, before resorting to blockade, bandh etc. Imesenkaba also said that power would be restored through the installed transformer after it was charged for two hours. There had been similar cases of transformers bursting due to overload in Dimapur as well as other districts.<\/div>\n
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Irate residents of three colonies of Dimapur City- Landmark, Supply and Duncan- along with GBs and council members blocked the stretch of the NH 36 along Dhobinalla-Firing Range road at Duncan-PWD junction, for more than two hours Monday morning, demanding immediate restoration of power supply to the area. It may be pointed out that power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}