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Power-cut will Not Ease Soon
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On October 13, 2009, speaking to the reporter of the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’, Energy Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat has said that the power-cut will not ease in the near future because the supply of energy could not be increased during the conflict period.
It is true to some extent but the fact is that during the more than fifteen years of the rule of the Nepali Congress, the government mostly headed by Girija Prasad Koirala did not bother to build even a single hydropower plant, as the Nepali Congress leaders have been only after commissions but not for really building power plants.
The second fact is that the Government headed by Prachanda has proposed to build a 200 MW thermal power plant to mitigate the power shortage immediately but the partners in the governance leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist have opposed it in writing on the pretext of high cost of power.
Now, Energy Prime Minister Mahat is proposing to build a thermal plant to mitigate the power shortage. If he is sincere to his words then he should do it without delay in building a thermal plant to minimize the power-cut. However, Prime Minister Madhav Nepal as the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist has once opposed to build such a power plant will allow the Energy Minister to build a thermal plant remains to be seen.
