GURGAON: Over 400 house owners of J block at Mayfield Gardens heaved a
sigh of relief after the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) rented a
transformer on Sunday late night.
In February, the
Department of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) had cancelled the license
of the builder as the promoters of the colony failed to maintain civic
amenities like internal roads and community services. "Now,
unfortunately there is no clarity as to who will pay for developing
power infrastructure in the colonies. The DHBVN doesn't seem interested
in the residents' plight," said Commander (rtd) Dharamveer Yadav,
president, Sheetal RWA Mayfield Gardens.
For the past few days, the area
has been facing severe power cuts and things became unbearable when the
transformer stopped functioning due to technical glitches on Saturday
night. Things became normal only when the RWA itself decided to hire a
transformer the following day.
The incident has exposed the callousness of city agencies, HUDA and
DHBVN, which failed to provide any help to the residents. "The license
of this particular builder has been cancelled and the HUDA has been
given administrative control to manage all the housing projects. But
they could not do anything when we had to go without power. Ultimately,
we had to pool money to rent a transformer," said RWA president, Pradhan
Satpal Thakran. The RWA is paying Rs 60,000 a month for renting one
transformer. They also hired a private firm to detect damaged cables and
then repair them.
The colony has three transformers, and on
Saturday night one of the main transformers was damaged. "The RWA has
managed to rent one transformer. But now if another transformer
malfunctions, we won't know what to do as we won't have enough money to
hire another transformer," said Thakran.
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