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Tamil Nadu
Protest over power cut
Staff Reporter
WATRAP: Over 500 farmers and women staged a road roko here on Friday protesting unannounced powers cut for up to 9 hours every day in the last week. Bus services were crippled and shops remained closed for four hours.
The protest that began around 10 a.m. went up to 3 p.m. The women, who squatted with empty pots highlighting the drinking water shortage owing to frequent power cuts, stood ground until there was an assurance from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to stop unannounced power cuts.
The Srivilliputtur MLA, T. Ramasamy, who held talks with the officials said, “Frequent power failures have put the farming community and women to untold hardships. We do not know when power will go off or supply continue for how long. We face power failure for at least 9 hours a day.” The town faced frequent power cuts throughout the nights, he added.
Stating that it was the right time for transplantation of seedlings, Mr. Ramasamy said that the seedlings in many places had started drying.“Besides, transplantation could not be taken up for paucity of water,” he said.
Attributing the frequent power failures to a technical hitch, a TNEB official promised to rectify it.
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