Power restored in Gračanica

Power has been restored in the town of Gračanica after talks between local Serbs, the Kosovo Electric Corporation (KEK), and international representatives.

Source: B92

Friday, 03.07.2009.

09:28

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Power has been restored in the town of Gracanica after talks between local Serbs, the Kosovo Electric Corporation (KEK), and international representatives. The reason for the delay was that the two sides differed over the total number of households in the town that had agreed to pay the EUR 26 reconnection fee. Power restored in Gracanica The two sides agreed earlier that power would be restored once 70 percent of the households had paid up. Gracanica negotiating team official Dragutin Jovanovic said that the electricity had not been turned on because his team and KEK differed over how many people had paid the reconnection fee. “KEK’s distribution director in Pristina, Naim Sahiti, claims that according to KEK’s data, there are 1,500 households in Gracanica, and he insists that the installment of EUR 26 needs to be paid by 70 percent of households,” Jovanovic said, adding that according to his records, Gracanica had 1,113 households. Jovanovic said that about 200 households in the northwest of the town had electricity because they were hooked up to the network of the neighboring Albanian village of Ajvali. “These households, for the most part, have not paid the installment,” Jovanovic said. He added that some 160 internally displaced persons lived in mobile homes, makeshift communities and other people’s abandoned homes in Gracanica, and that the town had about 130 Roma families. He said that most of these 290 households fell into the category of socially at-risk families. The residents that paid the installment yesterday also signed a document “which confirms acceptance of the agreement’s provisions and conditions governing electrical energy services .” The problems with the power supply, which was turned off two weeks ago, has been a serious cause for concern for Gracanica’s residents, Jovanovic said, adding that many feared that the health of children and the chronically ill could be put at grave risk.

Power restored in Gračanica

The two sides agreed earlier that power would be restored once 70 percent of the households had paid up.

Gračanica negotiating team official Dragutin Jovanović said that the electricity had not been turned on because his team and KEK differed over how many people had paid the reconnection fee.

“KEK’s distribution director in Priština, Naim Sahiti, claims that according to KEK’s data, there are 1,500 households in Gračanica, and he insists that the installment of EUR 26 needs to be paid by 70 percent of households,” Jovanović said, adding that according to his records, Gračanica had 1,113 households.

Jovanović said that about 200 households in the northwest of the town had electricity because they were hooked up to the network of the neighboring Albanian village of Ajvali.

“These households, for the most part, have not paid the installment,” Jovanović said.

He added that some 160 internally displaced persons lived in mobile homes, makeshift communities and other people’s abandoned homes in Gračanica, and that the town had about 130 Roma families.

He said that most of these 290 households fell into the category of socially at-risk families.

The residents that paid the installment yesterday also signed a document “which confirms acceptance of the agreement’s provisions and conditions governing electrical energy services .”

The problems with the power supply, which was turned off two weeks ago, has been a serious cause for concern for Gračanica’s residents, Jovanović said, adding that many feared that the health of children and the chronically ill could be put at grave risk.

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