Stuck in 2013

In terms of power outages, it seems we are stuck in 2013. It was 10 to 14 hours of loadshedding then, and people have been facing the same hours of outages today. One hopes Nawaz Sharif will succeed in fulfilling his pledge of ending loadshedding by 2018. Going by the situation prevailing in the country, though, such pledges seem hollow.

But there is one beneficiary to the government’s failure on this count – those selling appliances like batteries, UPS, solar panels, inverters, etc, that have flooded our markets. Are people not justified in thinking that loadshedding is being done to benefit a certain section and keep their business going? Who is benefitting the most from loadshedding? Let us hope that better sense prevails and the government pays full attention to overcoming the energy crisis.

Dinesh Chandoo Solanki

Jhuddo