The people of Nagarota blocked the Rajouri Budhal road and protested.

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RAJOURI AUGUST 18:-Due to the power outage in the Nagarot area adjoining the city for the last four days, the local people blocked the Rajouri Budhal road for two hours and protested fiercely and said that if the power supply is not restored in our area within two days, then there will be a fierce protest in the coming days. The responsibility of which will be of the administration and the electricity department.

Manzoor Ahmed, Basharat Ali, Javed Iqbal etc., who were protesting, said that the transformer installed in our area is faulty for the last four days. Till now neither any effort has been made to replace the transformer nor any step has been taken to repair it, due to which we are facing many types of problems. We have to go to other areas even to charge our mobiles. Due to the transformer being faulty, the pumping station of the Jag Shakti department is also not working, due to which the supply of drinking water is also not being done in the area. We have appealed to the officials several times in four days, but despite this no steps are being taken to restore the electricity supply in the area. He said that if the problem of drinking water is not resolved in the area within two days, then we are fully prepared to stage a fierce protest in the coming days.

On receiving information about the protest, the police station in-charge and other officials reached the spot and assured the people that the electricity supply in the area will be restored by replacing the transformer in two days. After which the protesters ended their protest and restored the movement of vehicles.