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Time To Work For Development
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 24, 2012: speaking at the annual meeting of the ministerial level Development Problems Resolution Committee and the progress evaluation of the Ministry of Energy for the Fiscal Year 2011, Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai said that the evaluations made by the ministries would have no meaning at all unless the common folks got electricity in their houses and stressed the need for moving ahead making the current mid-term and long-term policies successful, and urged the authorities concerned to prepare a roadmap to move ahead by integrating water resources and energy. The Prime Minister has said that there is no alternative to importing power from India immediately to curb the power-cut to 10 hours a day in the winter season this year; so, he has directed the concerned agencies to construct and repair inter-country transmission lines in the Nepal-India border areas. Dr. Bhattarai said, "Don't only complain of budget and manpower, just prepare the transmission lines, it is my responsibility to bring power to decrease load-shedding hours this winter season."
The Prime Minister said, "No progress was seen in the energy sector as expected. Though the government had the target of 100 MW for the fiscal year 2011, only 10 MW was generated and achievement has been nil while it has the target of constructing 400 kms of transmission lines." "Let's not impede the Karnali, Dudhkoshi, Budhigandaki, Narsingghat, Uttarganga, among other hydro power projects as they are compulsory, let's forward the process for the large hydel projects," said Dr. Bhattarai.
"Building new Nepal without the development of energy sector is not possible, therefore, the officials at the Ministry and the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) should be responsible for public, society and national interests instead of giving priorities for personal interest alone," he added.
Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai has said that now is the time for development politics and has warned that if any party prefers other ways they will themselves perish, adding that the political transition in the country will sooner or later be settled, according to RSS/thehimalayantimes.com.
