Powerless city!
G. R. Sohail / driknews
Load shedding has been a common scene in Dhaka city as far back as I can remember. With passage of time it went from bad to worse. And the government keeps making promise of reducing it. But the more they promise, the worse it gets. Ever since I learned to read the newspaper, every other day I would see talks of new power plants, ways to reduce power consumption and increase production. The government allocates more and more money each year to the power sector, but to no use. And during the elections, every party makes pledges of improvement in the power sector. But clearly, somebody has been sleeping on the job. What I would really like to know is, how much did they actually improve matters? Reading about new power-plants in the morning newspaper, and then going through a hot summer day of five to eight hours of load-shedding is very frustrating. A very effective way to measure each government's contribution to the power sector would be tables/charts showing average peak consumption against production, through the years they were in office. That way, we would truly understand how much each government has helped to improve the situation. Instead of telling us what you are doing for us, show us how it is helping us. To the people running this country, I would like to say : we are tired of listening and reading about some tenders that will be floated in late 2010, and how by 2015 load-shedding is going to stop. Show us the results so far, so that we may know where we stand. Instead of going on and on about how you are going to make this a better place for us. How about showing us what you have done?
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