As we all are tormented by Load-shedding curse. Which has made us insane rather than sane. How to stay sane in this insane world thats what I'm pondering.We've seen riots and protest against load-shedding. Our democratic govts which came in 1988 till 1999. In these 11 years our demo govts were busy in internal/external-feuds, in corruption, in extra-judicial killings and misuse of authority rather than curbing the public issues on top was electricity and clean water. Ultimately they've gone without completing their tenures and paved the way for Military Dictatorship.
We Pakis are being fooled by our feudalistic elite 1st then by our Military Dictators. Who ruled more than 30 years in 62 years of Pakistan history. They also didn't do anything to give basic relieve to normal public rather Ayub era was full of wars and partitioned 2nd Zia era was full of Jihad against Soviets and Mush era was filled to fight against Islamic Terrorism.
Well today my topic is How to overcome the load shedding curse which is clearly leading to all of us towards Hell.? We are yelling and dying for relief but never come on consensus to build Kala Bagh Dam and other dams, in consequences we are facing blackouts.
Extended electricity load shedding in Karachi's five major industrial estates is causing losses in billions of rupees as the production activity has fallen by about 50 per cent. KESC, Karachi's power supply, is dealing with with a shortfall of around 700MW against a total demand of 2200MW. Almost all forms of power generation from fossil fuel-fired thermal to hydroelectric to nuclear are down from a year ago.
As a result of the daily rolling blackouts, the economy, major exports and overall employment are also down and the daily wage earners are suffering. Government offices owe KESC millions of rupees in electricity bills. KESC owes its supplier PEPCO in billions. The KESC and PEPCO both owe more than Rs.100billion to the independent power producers. By fixing all these debt to one another can help bring them into full operation and ease the crisis at least partially.
To empower people and communities in some of the developing nations, social entrepreneurs are stepping in to fill the large gap between supply and demand for electricity. In Bangladesh, for example, Grameen Shakti is a social enterprise selling home solar electricity systems to families that do not have access to electricity otherwise. It is an enterprise that demonstrates the success of a densely networked approach involving mutually reinforcing investments in human, social, ecological and financial capital by a number of organizations.
Solar energy makes much sense for Pakistan for several reasons: firstly, majority of the population lives in 50,000 villages that are far away from the creaking old national grid, according to a report by the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC). Connecting these villages to the national grid would be very costly, thus giving each house a solar panel would be cost efficient and would empower people both economically and socially.
To draw inspiration for empowering Pakistani villagers with solar energy, Pakistanis don't have to look far. In Bangladesh, Grameen Shakti (GS) is demonstrating that it can be done. GS was founded by Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus in 1996 as part of the Grameen Bank’s family of enterprises. Shakti is attempting to rescue the rural people from energy poverty which hampers their social and economic development. Shakti's unique program has taken the first step to break the social and economical divide between those who have energy and those who do not.
GS’s solar program mainly targets those areas, which have no access to conventional electricity and little chance of getting connected to the grid within 5 to 10 years. It is one of its most successful programs. Currently, GS is one of the largest and fastest growing rural based renewable energy companies in the world. GS is also promoting Small Solar Home System to reach low income rural households.
Solar Home Systems(SHSs) can be used to light up homes, shops, fishing boats etc. It can also be used to charge cellular phones, run televisions, radios and cassette players. SHSs have become increasingly popular among users because they present an attractive alternative to conventional electricity such as no monthly bills, no fuel cost, very little repair, maintenance costs, easy to install any where.
Bengalis have done well unlike our govt and our banks who are none but hand puppets of the west. Shaukat Aziz and now Shaukat Tareen an examples in finance and Mush now Zardari is an example in Politics. They were/are doing nothing except bringing misery on their own people. Ostensibly, our govt running on IMF aids another Shortcut Tareen(b4 Aziz) who's an open agent of west bankers and he's dealing and begging IMF.
On behalf of IMF they have removed subsidy on Electricity further they have increased Electricity bills around 30%. Will it help to curb the load-shedding crisis? I don't think so rather it will escalate more social unrest and public will go for more Kunday than ever before.
Our leaders are nothing but yes-men and they are doing nothing except bringing misery on their own public rather than combating their basic necessities like electricity and water. They are just bringing misery in terms of cutting subsidies and waging gratuitous-war towards their own public which is creating real horror and our leaders have lost in this war and will lost everything and they are really going to hell for sure if they continue their same policy.
Shame on our Governments since Ayub to Zardari.
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