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A State Of Emergency In Power Sector In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 24, 2011: speaking at the Legislature Parliament yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari holding the portfolio of power sector has said that his government has decided to declare a state of emergency in the power sector and bypass rules and regulations to release licenses to build hydropower, thermal and coal power plants in the next three and a half years.
His party CPN-UML had vehemently opposed the plan on building a 200 MW thermal plant by the UCPN-Maoist led government in 2008 stating cost of the production would be too high for the country to sustain such a power plant. Now the same man has proposed for building not only thermal plants but also even coal plants in the country. If the CPN-UML had agreed on building a 200 MW thermal plant in 2008, Nepalis would not have needed to face such power shortage. The question is why the CPN-UML has suddenly come up with the idea of building thermal and coal power plants?
In addition, the CPN-UML Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari has told the Legislature Parliament that the nation should generate 2500 megawatt electricity in the next four and a half years to address the energy crisis according to the news in ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today. If this report is correct, then a question arises why we need 2500 MW power when our requirement is not more than 200 MW. Is the minister joking or he has forgotten arithmetic means he has said 2500 instead of 250.
