A week ago, several farmers of Kapurthala loaded transformers onto a trolley and then held a dharna at the Khaira Dona Feeder, exhorting the Electricity Department to keep their transformers with them as they were of no use to them in the peak of summers amid paddy season.
Despite promise of an uninterrupted electricity supply of eight hours, farmers across villages in Jalandhar and its neighbourhood complained of hefty power cuts which are leaving their fields with only four to five hours of electricity supply per day. Across the rural areas in the district and its periphery, farmers have been reporting a paucity of electricity in the middle of the paddy season which is giving them a hard time.
