Power cuts
In Delhi city itself, they have power cuts for six hours daily. A country with such high record of development has a serious power shortage still in rural areas as well big cities like Kolkata even. However, it is going to export power to Bangladesh. Bangladesh exports rice and vegetables and huge quantity of fish to the mid eastern countries when we are having shortage of it. The seven sisters of India have power that they can export but it is more expensive for them to pass it to far away states of theirs where there is shortage than Bangladesh which is adjacent to them. And believe it or not, the reality is this that Yangon has only two hours of power daily. The situation is horrible in Pakistan too and in some provinces they do not have power for days particularly in northern part but that is mainly due to the political situation prevailing over there.
The present AL govt has taken a step to solve the problem and that will be their acid test.
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