You know what annoys me (I DO seem to be getting annoyed a lot these days)? Well, the list is long, of course, but one of the things that annoy me is how people love complaining, without understanding the issue. One example:
Although I am not, in any case, and to any extent, a supporter of the Maoists (in fact I am a ghor birodhi- anything BUT a supporter) the increase in load-shedding hours has nothing to do with them. Even if the Gordon Brown government (a successful government in its place) comes to Nepal, it will not be able to search up and build alternative sources of energy in 4 months. The serious lack of electricity that we now face is actually because of the corruption that officials in NEA have taken, and the fact that the low demands of the past gave NEA no reason to increase supply, and that suddenly this year, the demand has risen. It is due to inefficiency on the part of the NEA and otherv things, but it is NOT related to who’s in Government.
There was a rumor that a few days ago, one of the Ambani brothers was in Kathmandu to talk about investing in a new hydropower plant. But the Nepalis asked for Rs 5 crore under the table, so he went back. Not sure it’s true, but it IS a possibility, especially the corruption (money under the table= corruption). Well well…
Gordon Brown government (a successful government in its place) re
Comment by ahem ahem lol lol — January 3, 2009 @ 9:49 am |
I’ve actually been wondering about this. I originally thought that load shedding had gone up only in Kathmandu. Which would make sense (I could see demand increasing in Kathmandu).
But I hear that load shedding is happening country-wide (and at the same scale?–I’m not sure–can you inform me actually?).
If it is happening country-wide, then I see something a little more fishy going on, as I don’t really see why demand in the rest of the country should radically increase this year.
In fact, why is load-shedding the highest this year? If you did a Kathmandu population trend study, I would intuit (sitting far away in my well-lit room) that the net increase in population Kathmandu would be more in the past years than this year (after all, people were fleeing a war in the past, whereas things were theoretically calmer this year, no?)
Comment by prabhu — January 3, 2009 @ 1:00 pm |
Okay, if not Gordon Brown, then Nicholas Sarkozy. Or whoever.
Load shedding is happeneing throughout the country, EXCEPT in places which run on local micro-hyrdoplants, OR places that run on OTHER hydropower plants. My grandparents in Ilam have no loadshedding.
And yes, the demand theory does have loopholes. I mean the highest loadshedding last year was eight hours per day. It’s already 12 this year, and rumored to go upto 16. Did demand really increase THAT much? It IS fishy. Maybe it’s the industries, but then again, we can’t really tell.
Anyways, the point is that just by throwing out one government, we cannot suddenly see a decrease of load-shedding hours. “In India, the government is outsed when the price of onions increase, and we Nepalis sit and watch even when oadshedijng goes up to an all-time high.” Think, dude (who unknowingly inspired me to write this), think. Did the price of onions decrease after the government was changed?
Comment by malika47 — January 3, 2009 @ 5:34 pm |
What do you mean by OTHER hydropower plants?
Comment by prabhu — January 4, 2009 @ 12:54 pm |
Im Illam, electricity come from the Puwa Khola Hydropower Plant. In Mustang, it comes from another hydropower plant, whose name I don’t know. Both places have NO loadshedding unless there is big a storm or something.
Comment by malika47 — January 5, 2009 @ 1:55 pm |
Oh, ok, so it’s the plant that’s serving Kathmandu (and how much else of the country?) that is having load shedding? I don’t know where to find out the exact details of who has how much load shedding, is this publically available information anywhere?
Comment by prabhu — January 6, 2009 @ 7:47 am |
I’ll try to get some info on those stuff and email it to you ASAP.
Comment by malika47 — January 8, 2009 @ 8:18 am |