People tired of daily power cuts will get some respite with Nepal
Electricity Authority (NEA) slashing the load-shedding hours by more than
half from Tuesday onwards.
Sher Singh Bhatt, chief of NEA's Load Dispatching Center, said that NEA
would from now on impose only 21 hours of power cuts four days a week.
Bhatt said that the load shedding hours were reduced as the water level in
reservoirs increased owing to melting of snow with the advent of the
summer season. He said this has led to increased production of electricity
in the power plants.
Earlier, consumers were forced to bear more than 46 hours of load shedding
every week, adversely affecting their daily lives.
According to the new load shedding schedule, NEA would impose two and half
hours of load shedding three days a week and then eight and six hours of
load shedding one day each in separate time schedules for different parts
of Kathmandu. Similarly, consumers would not have to face any power
outages two days a week as against the current one. nepalnews.com ag Apr 28 08
