I woke up at 2 am , just to charge my laptop :(by Prakriti Dhakal | 14-01-2016 16:59 |
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Seeing the above title it looks like as if it is a poem or a story but the fact it is the regular schedule of many Nepalese like me . God has been very kind to our country to provide unlimited natural resources as it is second richest country in the world in natural resources but why we are facing problems like this? Factories, hospitals, mills.......??....They are forced to be paralyzed, while countries in the west move towards enlightenment, Nepal is moving towards darkness. The country suffering at the hands of corrupt politicians has much graver problems and one of them is load shedding. It is the 21st century and we are still waiting for the lights. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has increased power outage to up to 14 hours a day starting since Monday. The increment in the daily power cut is attributed to the reduced water levels in the river and increasing demand for power, shared chief of Load Dispatch Centre, NEA. With the revised load shedding schedule, there will be 84 hours of power cut per week with adjusted timetable for the power cut in the morning and evening in view of public convenience. Although a total of 43 operating hydro electricity projects produce some 718 megawatts of electricity in the country, the power production drops by 50 per cent during the winter as many such projects are run-of-the-river type, as per NEA. Only 300 megawatts of electricity is being transmitted to the central transmission line. Some 230 megawatts of power is being imported from India at present. The power demand in the country has soared to 1,800 megawatts following the border blockade as the import of fuel, including LPG gas, has been disrupted. On such load shedding hours how can we continue our works? I think it is harder even to imagine the 24 hr day with 14 hr power off! We students are forced to suffer the most. I post this article here not to show my country is poor in electricity , as the brilliants thinkers are here lets rise a voice for the sake of NEPAL , we can think of its alternatives . |