Altaf Hamid Rao.
Line staffers restore power supply in scorching heat-ful midnight
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : One may not be wrong if describe any lineman of the State Electricity Department in Azad Jammu Kashmir who always found stand allert round-the-clock to ensure maintaining the power supply to the valued customers in expatriates’ city of AJK besides rest of this lake district
This great gesture of the State Electricity Department line staff was practically witnessed by the consumers last night at densely populated Blocks 2-A and 2-B of D/4 in the city where the consumers thronged the streets due to outage of power following routine technical fault at the high voltage main power supply line last night.
Life was partially paralyzed in a big part of thickly populous area as rising scorching heat wave and over aged main supply lines (conductor) resulted in breakdown power supply lines passing through the above blocks of the D/4 housing sector plunging the area into power outage for several hours.
In response to the complaint Quick Response Special Team of Line staff headed by Sr. Line Superintendent Khawaja Ansar Mahmood, on immediate directives of Mirpur city Exective Engineer Sardar Shoukat Abbasi the State Electricity Department team rushed the affected lines site at Sector D/4 near Truck stand where the high power main transmission line was blown up due to the sub-standard power supply line and the exceptional heat wave under the supervision of SDO Muhammad Ali, Areas Sub Engineer / Sr. Line Superintendent Khawaja Ansar Mahmood who removed the major faults within hours replacing the conductor restoring the power supply lines without taking care of the heavy life threatening hot spell of over 47 degrees centigrade.
Other Line staffers who primarily took part in the lines restoration operation emergent work include senior linemaen Farayaad Ali and Aurangzeb in particular who also preferred to perform their official duties to get the valued consumers rid of the mental and physical unrest without taking care of the extremely hard weather amidst intolerable heavy murcery.
Engineer Ansar Khawaja told this PT Correspondent at the centric site of power breakdown of the main power transmission line mid last night at about 12.30 a.m that following quick hectic efforts, the power supply in the huge affected residential areas of various blocks of Sector D/4, was restored instantly within few hours, soon after the complaint about the power breakdown landed at the area’s complaint office located at Quaid-e AzamMuhammadAliJinnahInternationalSportsStadium in the city.
The areas’ population has, meanwhile, again warmly lauded outstanding performance of the AJK State Electricity Department, currently serving Azad Jammu Kashmir under the dynamic sincere guidance and headship of seasoned bureaucrate of AJK Administrative Service (AJKAS) Muhammad Tayyeb Chaudhry, incumbent Secretary to AJK government for Power Development, Electricity and Energy resources and Chief Engineer (South), State Electricity Department Engr. Muhammad Tahir Ratayal, who are determined to ensure the uninterrupted power supply to the valued consumers all over AJK including Mirpur Division.