Power failure
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With the advent of summer power failure has become a common phenomenon in the cities. People are suffering immensely as electricity is snapped frequently. Candles, chargers, handmade fans--these items have become essential to tackle sudden disruption of power supply. However, it is the students, especially the SSC examinees, who are hit badly by the recurrent power failures. The sufferings of children and the elderly people can also be imagined. The situation is probably worse in rural areas--farmers need power to run irrigation pumps. The villagers also need electricity at night. As they are paying for electricity, they deserve uninterrupted supply of it. Unfortunately, they are not getting it. According to the energy secretary, power generation has increased from 3113MW to 3774MW over the last one year. Despite this increase in production, frequent power outage continues to cripple the lives of countrymen.
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