Unbearable load shedding
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Frequent power outage has made the life of the people all over the country extremely miserable, to say the least. Due to the inability of PDB to provide the required amount of electricity to the people, the load shedding is a familiar phenomenon for all of us for quite a long time now and we are used to it by some extent as well! But the manner in which the load shedding is happening these days has broken all the records of the past. The PDB has to cut the electricity in almost each alternate hour digitally in every locality due to the huge shortfall of power. They are blaming the previous governments and many other factors like shortfall of gas and illegal electricity connections for this present horrible condition. But this blame game will not ease the woes of the sufferers. Once there was a time when we used to tackle the load shedding by using generators and IPS. But those days are gone by now. Since the IPS does not get the required time to recharge due to regular power cuts, so how could it supply electricity every hour? And generators are also running out of oil due to frequent power cuts. Our energy and power minister has also said that the power situation won't improve overnight, it requires at least a couple of years to improve a bit. So, we are passing through a very hard time in this hot and humid weather and load shedding has taken such a form that we are now helpless. We can't blame these power-starved people either since the load shedding is playing with their temper these days. But in no way the government can allow any quarter to create unrest.
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