A Dark Nepal

A Dark Nepal

By Sanskriti Thapa

Nepal is a country, haunted by a lot of problems. Among them political, economic and social are the most important one to be solved. Within this a problem with new dimension has borne which is none other then the problem of load shedding.

Previously, it was seasonal. In dry season one or two hours in a week Nepal was dark. But in this year it started from 2 hours, climbed the 6 hours hill and eventually 8 hours mountain. If this continues then the day is not far when there will be 12 hrs load shedding. Doesn’t seem a big deal to us but seems as a joke to the people of other countries because it is a fact that Nepal is the 2nd richest country in the context of water resources. We had learned in our school level that 83 thousand megabyte is the electricity generation capacity of our water resources. It is stated that million of cubic meter of water is crossing the boarder of country through the different rivers from east to west having a high potential to generate electricity. At present situation, however, we feel shame to say this. Actually who is accountable for this? Politicians?  Planners? Bureaucrat? Who? Can manpower of the country get its answer? What can we do from our side to overcome this problem? Remaining is just continuation of migration to foreign country as of our elders. Is there no space for patriotism?

The impact of load shedding is immeasurable in various sectors like industry, business and others. Further, our teacher taught us much- a poor country like Nepal has to work two times more in a day and four times more in a night in comparison to the developed country.  In contrary to this, every section of life in our country are compelled to sleep.   But, how it is? Few years back our grand parents saying about diyalo and Kerosene lamps was like a story to us but became daily life nowadays. As we are facing the same problem our grand parents had to. We are passing a lot of time talking on load shedding schedules, and fuel to cook. In fact it could not be a problem for a country like ours.  Students, the next hands of a country, are notable to pay their keen attention to their study. Need less to mention the loss is tremendous in the industrial and business sector too. Ultimately it is a loss of country. It is unrecoverable. He who cannot foresee even a few years problem in planning are condemned much from suffer especially student like me. It could be same for all other section of life.

 For students like us load shedding has been proved to be as a troublesome part in our day to day life. Today every where I hear people talking about the problem of load shedding, why not it is the hot news of Nepal as the schedule keep on changing. There is a one bright day in a week and rest are dark, hey don’t take me the either way I mean that only one day there is no load shedding. If this race of increasing hours exceeds its limit I think what Nepal would get profit for also would be bunged completely. But viewing today’s context I do not think the hour limit shall decrease. This also has been a topic of discussion in my classes there I hear my teachers saying that it’s better that there would be no light and we would also experience the life of villagers of Nepal.

As every thing has its good part I think load shading’s got it too. The people engaged in the business of candles, kerosene lamps, emergency light are turning well of day by day. However its disadvantages out numbers it advantages.