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Energy Minister Mahat For 25,000 MW Power Production
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 16, 2010: speaking at the seminar on ‘Power Crisis and Consumers’ held in Kathmandu on March 15, 2010, Minister for Energy Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat has said that the government is planning to generate 25,000 megawatt hydropower in the coming 20 years according to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of March 16, 2010. Nothing could be more lie than this statement of the Minister for Energy.
When the government led by the Maoists has set the target of producing 10,000 megawatt everybody laughed at them including Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat. Then Prime Minister Madhav Nepal of CPN-UML set the target of producing twice the target of the Maoists; now the Nepali Congress leader Dr. Mahat has come up with the target of 25,000 megawatt. Nothing sarcastic than this statement could be in Nepal.
If Dr. Mahat is a practical minister he needs to build a thermal plant of at least of 200 megawatt to mitigate the power shortage immediately no matter at what cost, as the power outage has been costlier than the cost of the production of the thermal plant.
When the Maoist government proposed to build a 200-megawatt thermal plant to reduce the power-cuts, the CPN-UML leaders wrote the Maoist government not to build such a power plant stating the cost of production of power by such a plant would be quite high.
Thanks to the CPN-UML leaders’ concern for the high cost of power production and to the current Minister for Energy doing nothing for building a thermal plant (the only source of immediate power except for importing from India) Nepalese people have been losing millions of rupees worth of businesses every day due to the power–cuts for more than twelve hours a day.
