Dimapur, April 13 (MExN): Wakching town in Mon is no longer in position to tolerate a “19th century transformer” that has helped only in adding more ‘darkness’ rather than providing light for the town’s wearied denizens, says the town’s students’ organization. The Wakching Town Konyak Students’ Union (WTKSU) today demanded from the Electricity department to address this grievance at the earliest or face and own course of action.
The union issued a letter seeking the attention of the Power department today. The WTKSU expressed sadness that the town, one of the earliest sub-divisions in Nagaland continue, to suffer lack of electricity that even Christmases and New Years are celebrated not with light but ‘candlesticks and firewood.’ The same situation was Aoleang festival, the union lamented in its letter.
“The 19th century transformer at Wakching town for eight villages can be better disposed as scraps rather than to generate power,” the union explained. “An hour of light after every town hours of load shedding and other miscellaneous training by the half-trained electricians is the only help that the Electrical department could offer since a decade or two.”
According to the union, electrical failure has reached zenith; the capacity of the transformer is much lesser than the required capacity it is expected to possess. “The Electrical department takes the transformer for repairing after every two months which comes back after another two months,” the WTKSU informed.
The only solution is a transformer with a higher capacity, the union said, “Which the Electrical department knows very well but does nothing.” The union has resolved that the matter would be seriously dealt with. “Therefore, it is our strong appeal to the concern authority to seriously look into the matter at the earliest and solve the stated grievances failing to which the body will be forced to take its own course of action.”
