The clock stroke 9 and there was a black out, as cruel... as punctual as death. And there was a loud collective cry of anguish from the whole locality. Many still do not know about the exact schedule of load-shedding and thus every time it occurs, people unexpectedly loose their business; miss their favorite TV Serial; are forced to go to bed; and thus they add few more sentences to the frustrated feeling of being a Nepali. Here is the time table for load-shedding in our sector, lading 5 hours of darkness each day.

I don't want to repeat the cliche but Nepalstill fancies itself as the second richest country in water resources but now the time has arrived to look for the alternatives of hydro-electricity. This year the climate has been as relentless as the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) can be more in the years to come. That is why NEA must try to move partly into petrol, coal or nuclear power plants.

There is another option for NEA in today's Kantipur Daily. Some experts believe that behind this entire load-shedding problem, there is a huge role of management discrepancies within the electricity board. And they believe that privatization of NEA can mitigate the problem to a large extent, if not solve it entirely.

Load-shedding strikes posted by Pradeep Chand @ 1:48 PM

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