Lucky me I came to the city of lights where life infact is second to impossible here. I am fortunate enough to see the news here (Kantipur TV, Sagamatha TV, and Nepal TV to be more precise) I know not what phase are we into in Nepal but we definitely have lost our track. Aren’t we going back to the Stone Age? No Petroleum products, No electricity, No water even, how do we survive. To our dismay we don’t even have enough woods to cook our food. Nepal is not just corrupted but the government itself has been a casino where any minister pops in with and empty bag and comes out loaded not just once a year or a months, it is every second they look forward to collect cash from any source.

Ask the government, why aren’t they permitting to open up a Private Power House? The answer is simple, how will they choose to get deprived of the income which flows like water to them. Why would they allow it, they have looted enough get themselves a UPS or an inverter which could give them lights for months. Trust me I know someone personally who can have the breakfast in Delhi come to work in Kathmandu, go for a lunch in Dubai, and dinner somewhere in Mauritius not just for a day but for months. This is the total amount of money he has looted from us. And as far as his families are concerned they all live abroad.
Load Shedding, in previous generations shunned by the power supply industry as an admission of poor planning and operation, it has now become a generally accepted practice to us.

There is by now a considerable body of literature on the subject. That literature, however, deals with the subject in the context of large interconnected power systems. Smaller, isolated power systems, which are more vulnerable to serious disturbances, have operating characteristics that require somewhat different guidelines, due to their lower inertia, limited reserves, and lack of access to off-system assistance.

Load shedding might, in other words, be to the customer’s benefit; the system might be in the middle of becoming leaner and so more efficient. Not so, as we have all found out to our dismay past many weeks.

It speaks instead of the far more benign “load shedding”, a phrase which could be mistakenly interpreted as a version of annual maintenance but one that causes considerable inconvenience to customers. Quite cynically, the phrase implicitly focuses on the electricity system, the grid, and the power that is no longer in it. Who feels the effects of the shedding? It’s not the system or the grid, it’s the individual consumer, or individuals in hospitals, businesses, schools.

The weight of the phrase, the direction in which it seems to go, is away from the inconvenience and frustration it causes individuals. To be more open about “load shedding” and its effects would be to use a more transparent phrase entirely. This language of institutional disrespect for the individual, the consumer, the little man , is everywhere apparent in South Africa today. At least we are not alone, although the local forms of doublespeak and euphemism can take some uniquely colourful forms.

I am very sorry dear reader as my articles is dead set against the government but on the brighter side I want Nepalese to get deprived of the endless sleep they have been snoozing past many decades. Its time for us to work for our country.

Regards,
Sishir Rai
Dubai UAE
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