Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce & Industries (MCCI) in a press note said it was dismayed with the Power department “for their utter incompetence in performing their duty in the service of the people”. MCCI president Tsukti Longkumer and general secretary Limalenden Longkumer stated that it was “stupefied by the department’s downright ineptness in maintaining decent public relations with the consumers, the tax-payers and the people in general”.
Extending its support to the 15-day ultimatum served by the All Ward Union Mokokchung Town on August 8, MCCI said the department would be held responsible for any untoward situation that may crop up.
It said that ever since the 5MVA power transformer broke down at Mokokchung power House on July 15, for the second time in less than a year’s time, the people of Mokokchung have been left reeling under acute power crisis. “The people in general are being subjected to unprecedented inconveniences but the worst affected are the members of the business community.” MCCI stated.
With irregular power supply in Mokokchung town and adjacent areas for a month now, MCCI said the business community has been accruing losses worth crores of rupees already. MCCI said that the Power department should realize by now that the patience of the people was running thin.
“Sections of the business community, those particularly affected worst by the power crisis, are on the verge of going bankrupt as theirs are businesses wholly dependent of electricity,” MCCI said.
It further extended support to the Ao Kaketshir Mungdang, All Ward Union Mokokchung Town and the Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem’s position on the issue. While stating that the department may claim to be doing what it thinks is best to restore uninterrupted power supply, MCCI however reminded that “their incompetence, ineptitude and inefficiency are now being too well exposed.”