Electricity shortage

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Summer 2011 is just set in and electricity load-shedding in Pakistan has intensified.

People are experiencing the worst load-shedding of history of Pakistan.The ongoing load-shedding in Karachi is likely to increase further. KESC has extended it daily up to 9 hours. It is being exercised in all domestic, educational and industrial areas.

The country is facing huge electricity crisis today. Industrialisation, metropolitan areas and education system have been badly affected by power crisis. Industry which is the key sector of production in any economy which acquires technological advances is badly affected by electricity crisis. Power outages cripple industrial production.

It has hit the industry hard as production will be cut to half due to power outages.

The students are hit hard by this issue. They cannot study properly in dim light and under hot and humid weather. They have been compelled to take classes and sit in examination with no electricity. This would badly affect our education system.

The decision has been taken to maintain the regular three-hour period of outages in residential areas. People in a number of localities complained of prolonged and frequent spells of outages amid hot and humid weather.

Many of people, especially the more affluent ones, have taken various steps to ameliorate the effects of load-shedding with stand by lights, gas equipment and generators being the most frequently purchased items. They enjoy facilities to stay cool while a common man who already struggles for basic necessities, cannot manage these lavish equipments.

Pakistan State Oil has stopped furnace oil supply to three independent power producers which produce electricity to KESC for the city. Due to reduced furnace oil supply, it is feared that the IPPs will not be able to generate and provide electricity which will increase the frequency of load-shedding in the city.

This crisis appears insurmountable in the near or even long-term future, unless proper understanding and correct implementation is undertaken on priority basis.

We an appeal to the government not to further delayed this serious issue and take appropriate steps in order to ameliorate the problems of energy shortage since the shortage of electricity has severe detrimental effects on all sectors of economy.

AFIFA HASHMI

Karachi

 

1 COMMENT

  1. Cheap Electricity From Kalabagh Dam a need of Citizens of Karachi.
    Disease of Provincialism in Politicians of NWFP and Sindh is mainly responsible for power shortage mayhem and the resultant chaos in the society due to tormenting blackouts and long power outrages.
    Importance of Electricity Versus Wastage of Water for Feudals.
    Why opposition on generation of electricity by Kalabagh Dam in which no water is wasted but provide option of safe storage of water for future use. Electricity is the need of each and every minute and moment of human life, people can not tolerate outage of electricity for one hour while agriculture land can tolerate need of water even many weeks, but why importance to agriculture of few feudals and no importance to electricity which is the need of each and every citizens of Pakistan generally and Karachi specially, because life of all citizens of Karachi(city of lights and Industry) revolves around provision of cheap electricity.

    • Children weeps in the night due to high temperature and mosquitoes bite due to outage of electricity,
    • Students can not study in night due to outage of electricity.
    • Industry can not run without electricity.
    • Machinery can not run without electricity.
    • Surgeons can not operate without electricity.
    • A patient on life machine can not survive without electricity.
    • Even in agriculture we can not use Tubewell without electricity.
    • Fertilizer can not be manufactured without electricity.
    • Pesticide can not be manufactured without electricity.
    • Sugar Mills,Cotton Mills,Textiles Mills.Flour Mills,Rice Mills can not run without electricity.

    Above points clearly indicates that use of water for generation of electricity is 1000 times better than wastage of water on land or in sea for few feudals, because water wasted in land or sea is not recoverable but water use for generation of electricity in Kalabagh Dam will be available for use for agriculture and Industry as it was suitable before generation of electricity and there will be no wastage of water.

    Sindh,Balochistan and Frontier are against Kalabagh
    because as per Sindh LOGIC Thar Coal is better than Kalabagh as Kalabagh will emmit BLACK SMOKE and Thar Coal will emmit fresh air full of Oxygen.
    And as per Balouchistan Vision GAS and coal extracted from Balouchistan are one of the most clean source of energy and Kalabagh will pollute air and land resouces and people will drown in Kalabagh and no one is dying in the coal mines of Balochistan.
    And as per Frontier wisdom, Royalty of Tarballa is so important that Pakistan can be broken for that and three rivers of Punjab can be sold to India by General Ayoub belonging from frontier for Construction of Tarbella in Frontier but Kalabgh dam is not good looking as it is in Punjab.
    All provinces want Provincial autonomy but Punjab should open or close its canals , IIRIGATE ITS LAND AND construct Dams as per desire of other provinces and after asking from other provinces Because it is necessary for unity and prosperity of Pakistan as when there will be no agriculture,no electricity and no water then Pakistan will be more united and more prosperous.
    From all above points it is clear that NWFP and Sindh who are opposing the generation of electricity and preservation and safe storage of water in Kalabagh dam are criminals of humanity as well as of World and politicians of these provinces are mainly responsible for shortage of electricity in the country and cities.

    Written By:M.AKRAM KHAN NIAZI.
    Karachi,Pakistan

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