<span style="color: #222222;">In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, with its commitment to taking reliable and quality supply of power to every corner of Jammu & Kashmir, the Power Development Department has successfully connected four more habitations of Kishtwar district to the Electricity Grid recently. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Jammu Correspondent reports that Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar, Ashok Sharma formally declared the villages 100 percent electrified by switching on the light in the presence of local residents. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Although these habitations were getting limited power from DG sets provided by the department, yet their connectivity to the grid would mean that these habitations would see power in its truest sense for the first time since independence. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These habitations  include Pethgam, Bungam, Chinab Dindoo and Watsar of the mountainous sub division Chatroo of Kishtwar district. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pertinently, to complete the electrification project of all four habitations, the department has to create new power infrastructure including a distribution transformer of 25 KVA capacity in each habitation and about 13.5 km HT line and 3.3 km LT line costing nearly Rs 60.32 lakh. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Earlier this year, villagers in Ganouri-Tanta village in the mountainous Doda district saw the light of an electric bulb for the first time when the Power Corporation extended the grid tending the decades of darkness in their lives. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The electrification work of the village was taken up on the order of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, after a group of locals put forward the demand before him at the last "LG Mulaqaat" programme. Similarly three villages located right on the LoC in North Kashmir's Kupwara district were also electrified by connecting them to the National Grid.</span>