In a recent statement our Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Federal Minister for Energy have said that load shedding from across the country has ended. Rather, it is zero.
In such a situation, If that is true then K Electric is telling him to shut up beavcuse everything is full of lies. KESC does not care anyone, it is free of state regulations. The law of Pakistan does not apply to K Electric.
K Electric is busy celebrating happy weddings by putting Pakistan’s economic hub on the brink of collapse. The owner of K-Electric, which is fed on the orders of IMF and its funding, is not a human being but an Indian RSS bhakt. In such a situation, the statement of the former Chief Justice is also on record in which he had made it clear that K-Electric Pakistan is to open the hands of the enemy whose fabric is similar to that of India.
But our media houses also do not care, they just publish load shedding time and reports. Even after 15 hours of load shedding, K Electric is telling the Pakistani leaders that we have eliminated load shedding from the entire city and made it zero.
In the month of Ramadan in which fifteen hours of load shedding took place. Now it remains to be seen what kind of stigma Electric will show after Eid.
In New York City, some years ago, the entire power system broke down, an event so traumatic that the question “Where were you when the lights went out?” became a part of local folklore. Here, in contrast, the collapse of a whole power grid – that ultimate nightmare of modern society – is almost a monthly occurrence.
Late last fortnight, a grid was entirely knocked out, plunging the whole state in darkness – and fetching just a couple of paragraphs in the next day’s newspapers. A grid failure brought life in Karachi to a standstill as lifts in high-rise buildings stopped mid-floor, and tens of thousands of consumers were stranded in the dark.
A society known for its fatalistic acceptance of all calamities has somehow taken the power crisis too in its stride. If there is no power in the hospital to sterilize needles or give a blood transfusion, well, let the patients wait. If a couple of them die while waiting
A student at the “plus two” stage who shifted recently from Islamabad to Karachi, has discovered that she still has to study by candle-light every now and then. The power shortage is everywhere, an apparently unconquerable problem that disrupts everyday routine in millions of homes. Whether in urban or suburban areas, or hundreds of other small towns in the land, there is a power cut virtually every single day of the year.
It is now the country’s No. 1 economic problem, holding back industrial growth, forcing machines to lie idle, jobs to be lost, companies to fall “sick”. in other words, the actually achieved economic growth rate could well have been much more if it had not been for the shortage of electricity. If the problem were merely one of a shortage, it is probably that people could somehow adjust. But frequently, the crisis is compounded by the sheer unreliability of the system.
Also electricity is supposed to be supplied at 220 volts, and all equipment and appliances are built to take that load. All too often, however, the overloading of the whole system forces the voltage to drop the voltage level in summer is often 180 or 190. Refrigerator motors burn out, companies plunge into the red, and heart patients slog up multiple flights of stairs, all because there is no power. Yet, there is in most places only a frustrated resignation, no anger.
The power shortages have grown and now become endemic. Any attempt to understand the reasons for a problem of such enormous magnitude must lead to a study of the organizations primarily responsible for providing the power: Through all this, there is constant political interference, preventing any professionalized systems of functioning from coming into force.
There have been several face-off between the government and the KESC and everythime the winner is KESC. A organization as powerful as the state. In any case, as yet another fall-out of the shortage syndrome, most investment in the power sector has gone into creating fresh generating capacity, so that investment in transmission systems has suffered heavily.
In Karachi, where the power crisis is now in chronic,, virtually everyone who can afford to has invested in inverter systems that form little power packs of their own, sufficient to light a bulb and turn a fan. The sale of portable generators has also become a flourishing business: Any healthy electric supply system needs at least 20 per cent reserve power.
