Power outage hours up 'unofficially'

Nepal Electricity Authority has extended daily power cuts by two more hours without informing the public.

The power outage was increased to 69 hours per week from 49 hours on December 8. The news comes as members of the general public reported that they were facing more than 69 hours of weekly power cuts in the past week.

A section of the local media has said that the government did not want to inform about the power cut hoping the import of 40 MW from India from January 1, 2013. nepalnews.com