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Thermal Power Plant "White Elephant For Nepal"
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 31, 2011: speaking at the interaction event yesterday, Minister for Commerce and Supplies Lekhraj Bhatta has said that thermal plants for generating power would be ‘white elephant’ means liability rather than asset showing how ignorant he was of the national economy.
Mr. Bhatta either does not know the national economy or has ignored it saying thermal plants would be ‘white elephant’. He should know that Nepal is losing billions of rupees worth of business and Nepalis have been tremendously suffering from the 10-hour power outage every day. So, the government should immediately build thermal plants to mitigate power shortage otherwise Nepal would continue to suffer from the sluggish economic development and the poverty would continue for many years to come.
Mr. Bhatta has said that NGOs and INGOs feed on dollars have been for building thermal plants. Mr. Bhatta must have such experiencing in feeding on dollars otherwise how would he know that dollar-feed NGOs and INGOs are for thermal plants.
If Mr. Bhatta is sincere to his position of the Minister for Supplies he would stop talking against building thermal plants and would better engage in supplying gasoline products without interruptions for smoothing our business. However, the repeated shortage of petroleum products shows that Mr. Bhatta is not for solving the problem of supplying petroleum products rather for continuing it for making money while the sun shines.
The members of the Public Account Committee (PAC) of the parliament standing against building thermal plants have also indicated their ignorance of the national economy and the sufferings of the Nepalis in general due to shortage of power. If they really represent Nepalis in general they would fight for the welfare of the people but they are going against the welfare of the people standing against the thermal power plants. These guys don’t represent the people; so, they have lost the legitimacy of being members of the parliament.
