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Power evacuation

Captive power producers, who have long been persuading the government to allow them to use the existing grids to transport excess power from one place to another, seem to be using the current power crisis to their advantage.

State government has recently turned to these captive power producers to supply power to State grids so that crisis of imminent power cut could be avoided.

Now sources said these captive power producers would slowly assert it as their matter of rights and continue to use grids even if they were not asked to do so in future. Those who have been working in power sector for long say these captive power producers want to transport electricity free of cost. Power evacuation is a major concern for all producers.

After hard lobbying several captive power plants managed to secure coal deposits. Now it is time to get power evacuation facility when the State government is struggling to cope with the situation.

Apart from mental peace ‘kirtan’ can also cater death! Lack of proper knowledge of grammar of music can lead to group clashes in a village! It may sound astonishing but a woman got caught in a group clash over the grammar of music and tune of kirtan at Bhaliapalli village of Ganjam district. She was lethally injured and died of her injuries.

About a week back a group of persons were singing kirtan at a temple in the village. A person was singing while his friends were playing mridang and cymbals. A group of other villagers in the temple commented that the Abhi and the group were distorting the devotional song and the rhythm of accompanying instruments was also wrong. It led to an altercation between the two groups.

Altercation sparked into a violent clash. Both groups used lathi’s against each other. The devotees who had gathered up at the temple were the worst sufferers. They got trapped between the two warring groups. Kumari Mallik, who was sitting inside to hear the kirtan was also hit by lathis, although she was not part of any group.

She succumbed to her internal head injuries after six days. The kirtan singer and his troupe have absconded from the village following her death to escape arrest.

Satyasundar Barik, Sib Kumar Das

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