Long lasting load shedding in Pakistan
April 11, 2010
As a result of this rigorous problem of load shedding, large number of people of Lahore came out on roads and streets for protest. They said problems and troubles are increasing instead of decreasing day by day, local and poor people are suffering a lot. In response to these protests, federal minister of water and electricity Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has reduced two hours load shedding duration from the daily routine of load shedding but many cities of the country are still in ruthless dilemma of load shedding and short fall is 4600 mega watt.
Munir Ahmed Khan of Wapda has told the news channels that after the protests in Lahore, federal minister of water and electricity has reached national power control centre in Islamabad and he announced that he will themselves monitor the load shedding problem of all the cities.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had negotiated with officials of petroleum, World Bank and with oil companies and has reduced load shedding in Lahore from 11 hours to 09 hours whereas, in the remaining areas of the country load shedding problem is still the same.
D.G PEPCO Mohammed Khalid has said that till 15th April, along with the Jabco and Cott addoo many other non functional power plants would soon produce one thousand mega watt electricity and with the establishment of new power plants in June and July the short fall will decrease to 2 mega watts and with the help of which setback of load shedding will reduce.
In the capital city of Islamabad along with Rawalpindi the load shedding`s duration is from 04-06 hours and in Karachi its duration is from 05-06 hours. In other interior cities of Sindh problem of load shedding is tranquil the same. In many parts of Punjab load shedding`s duration is from 10-12 hours daily and in rural areas of Punjab this duration is of 16 hours.
In urban areas of Faislabad load shedding is a common feature for about 08 hours and sometimes more then that whereas, in rural areas this problem is for about more than 10 hours daily. In Balochistan, along with the city of Quetta in many other areas duration of load shedding is of about 08 hours and for rural areas this problem is for about 18 hours. For people of Peshawar this duration is of about 12-14 hours.
Due to this ruthless and intense quandary of load shedding everyone is suffering a lot mainly the poor and lower class people because they are having not that much resource to afford the alternatives like generators or u.p.s. Moreover, the working class and merchants are all suffering from number of major tribulations so, people are getting frustrated and annoying. People’s point of view is this when we are paying a lot in form of electricity bills, then why we are not been provided with enough electricity facility.
written by Maham Saleem
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