It is hard to imagine life without electricity specially in a country which is supposed to be the second richest in the world when it comes to water resource. Nepal should be like any other metropolitan city in the world with glittering lights everywhere, every street and corner should be lit up and every household should have power at a low cost with the rich recourse it has. Instead, the people are suffering with the ongoing load shedding of almost fourteen to sixteen hours a day. The normal life must have been drastically affected by the ongoing load shedding. Ordinary people have to make plans according to the schedule of the electricity. You want to study but you cannot because there is no light, your computer never works when you want it to, your refrigerated goods get rotten, in the kitchen rice cooker is just a show pot and your TV is just another useless tool. The power cuts in Nepal are not good for its growth and economy as well. Lower productivity means higher costs for finished goods and people will feel that in their pockets when they visit the market. Why isn’t this issue ge
tting sorted out? It is a sensitive issue and is directly effecting the lives of the people. Nepalese businesses, enterprises, communications, industries, education and service sectors have been so much hit that overall capacity utilization of the industrial units due to load shedding has come down to about 40-50 per cent. It has already handicapped the economy and will further cripple it which is not a good sign for a nation that is trying hard to emerge out from the hard hitting cyclone of poverty.
It is hard to imagine life without electricity specially in a country which is supposed to be the second richest in the world when it comes to water resource. Nepal should be like any other metropolitan city in the world with glittering lights everywhere, every street and corner should be lit up and every household should have power at a low cost with the rich recourse it has. Instead, the people are suffering with the ongoing load shedding of almost fourteen to sixteen hours a day. The normal life must have been drastically affected by the ongoing load shedding. Ordinary people have to make plans according to the schedule of the electricity. You want to study but you cannot because there is no light, your computer never works when you want it to, your refrigerated goods get rotten, in the kitchen rice cooker is just a show pot and your TV is just another useless tool. The power cuts in Nepal are not good for its growth and economy as well. Lower productivity means higher costs for finished goods and people will feel that in their pockets when they visit the market. Why isn’t this issue ge
tting sorted out? It is a sensitive issue and is directly effecting the lives of the people. Nepalese businesses, enterprises, communications, industries, education and service sectors have been so much hit that overall capacity utilization of the industrial units due to load shedding has come down to about 40-50 per cent. It has already handicapped the economy and will further cripple it which is not a good sign for a nation that is trying hard to emerge out from the hard hitting cyclone of poverty.
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