The administration in Jammu and Kashmir and the Central government is facing increasing criticism for the decision of privatisation of the power sector and calling of the army following the strike of power development department (PDD) employees since Friday night plunged major areas of the union territory into darkness.
Mainstream as well as separatist organisations have castigated government’s decision to privatise the PDD department’s assets and proposal to merge JKPDD into the Power Grid Corporation of India. The employees’ strike and the administration’s intransigence have put thousands of J&K residents to extreme hardships amid bone-chilling temperatures and Covid-19 pandemic as hundreds of patients are struggling to keep on to their oxygen concentrators.
People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti connected the issue with the Government of India’s decision of revocation of Article 370.
