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Kathmandu Wednesday December 06, 2000 Mangshir 21, 2057.
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Irregular power supply affects locals in
Baglung
Post Report
BALUNG, Dec 5 - Dhaulagiri district produces nearly 16
megawatt of electricity but people in Baglung, the old headquarters of the zone, are
forced to depend on candles and kerosene lamp due to irregularity and shortage of power
supply.
Badri Prasad Sharma, editor of a local weekly Baglung, says
the entrepreneurs who require power supply to run their ventures are facing crisis due to
irregular power supply.
Similarly, Shiva Giri, who owns an offset machine says,
"We are fed up with the problem of irregular supply of power. The power supply is cut
off suddenly in the middle of printing and the paper is held up in the machine. I wonder
when we will get rid of this problem."
Gagan Shakya of Himali Colour Lab says their business is
badly affected due to irregular supply of electricity.
Asked about the reason for this irregularity, officials in
the Small Hydro-electricity Centre in Baglung give the same old reply that power supply
was disrupted due to storms and falling of trees over the transmission lines and also due
to overload. Sometimes, they answer that power supply was cut off from Pokhara and
Bharatpur itself, the same unconvincing old answer.
The power generated from Modikhola has been directly linked
with the central grid in Pokhara and it has been supplied to Baglung through 132/11 K.V.
transmission lines at Kudhar in Pokhara. The transformers there are unable to bear the
load.
Technicians believe that if the power generated from
Modikhola is distributed directly in Baglung and the remaining power is linked with the
central grid, the problem would have been resolved. If not, the capacity of the
trnsformers in Pokhara should be enhanced to resolve this lingering problem once for all.
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