Power protests
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan, Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009
THE sporadic street protests in various towns and cities of Pakistan against frequent and prolonged power breakdowns are not surprising in the least. On Thursday consumers gave vent to their anger in Lahore and Layyah. Other places too have witnessed similar scenes. After all, life for ordinary citizens is anything but easy and there are limits to one’s tolerance. For those who cannot afford generators and UPS units the challenges are formidable. Given the heat and discomfort of the day and the darkness of the night, one can understand their frustration. But people also have to contend with other kinds of problems — losses in business, industrial productivity and in terms of education and healthcare. So dependent is national life on the supply of power that it is practically impossible to manage without electricity. To the frequent interruptions in power supply we can add the uncertainty of unscheduled loadshedding, breakdowns that take ages to repair and the problem of voltage fluctuation. In other words, power supply has become most unreliable, and has hit productivity and the national economy the hardest.
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THE sporadic street protests in various towns and cities of Pakistan against frequent and prolonged power breakdowns are not surprising in the least. On Thursday consumers gave vent to their anger in Lahore and Layyah. Other places too have witnessed similar scenes. After all, life for ordinary citizens is anything but easy and there are limits to one’s tolerance. For those who cannot afford generators and UPS units the challenges are formidable. Given the heat and discomfort of the day and the darkness of the night, one can understand their frustration. But people also have to contend with other kinds of problems — losses in business, industrial productivity and in terms of education and healthcare. So dependent is national life on the supply of power that it is practically impossible to manage without electricity. To the frequent interruptions in power supply we can add the uncertainty of unscheduled loadshedding, breakdowns that take ages to repair and the problem of voltage fluctuation. In other words, power supply has become most unreliable, and has hit productivity and the national economy the hardest.
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Labels: Loadshedding, Power Breakdown
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