Faulty installation renders power meters idle at Chinjaroi village
Source: Hueiyen News Service / R Lester Makang
Ukhrul, June 20 2015 :
In an apparent case of technical lapses on the part of the Electricity Department, faulty installation by departmental technicians has rendered a total of 68 power meter boxes idle at Chingjaroi CV village in Ukhrul district since the past few months.
This was disclosed by village headman Raizar in an interaction with Hueiyen Lanpao.
He said that in the beginning of this year four supposedly trained technicians of the power department came to the village and installed power meters at 68 households.
"But no sooner did they connect the meters to current than the domestic wiring began to burn at various points.
Only then did we know that the installation was faulty.
This could have caused massive destruction or burned down the whole village in a minute," he said.
He further said that following this, the technicians disconnected all the meters installed at 68 households.
"We then approached the department which assured to look into the problem but not a single departmental staff member has shown up since then," he bemoaned.