A Country or State Without Electricity

No one expected such a worse situation that will affect each and everyone in the society. You know the trouble in managing a house with out electricity. The job of lighting the house, heating water and using the home appliances are at the mercy of the electricity board. Like wise, the business houses, industrial concerns requiring high tension power supply can not manage to generate their requirements. Small shops can temporarily switch over to emergency lamps, generator sets or simple uninterrupted power supply systems and manage for a few hours.

Power to Business Houses Interrupted

But, business houses engaged in retail sale of textiles and garments or consumer goods and fresh vegetables face greater problems in satisfying customers’ needs without regular power.

Similarly, production oriented industries like textile spinning mills, weaving mills and hosiery garment manufacturing companies can not have their own power generation plants.

Endangering Country’s Development

The service industry is suffering to a great extent. The educational institutions, libraries and hostels find it difficult to cope up with the short supply of power. Short supply of electricity affects the total educational development of the country. Essential services like milk pasteurization, medical services including various diagnoses including X-rays, ECG, and MRI scanning are suffering; finally electric cremations also at the mercy of the power supply.

Seeking Assistance

Now, the state government is pleading at other state governments for assistance and central government for total improvement in power production.

How did this shortage of power happen?

Social Need:

The state governments supply power at free of cost to meet the social need of the down trodden people in slums and villages to light at least a bulb in their huts.

There is no hesitation to give power connections to new homes, apartments and business houses.

Farmers’ Need:

The government understood the difficulty of the small farmers in controlling the cost of cultivation. To make both ends meet, the state government supplies free power for energizing the farm pumps. Further, the small scale industries are helped with more power connections to start new workshops and factories.

New Industrial Needs:

Many multinational companies have now established electrical and electronic industries to meet the global requirements. All the industries are assured of power supply to commence and maintain production of value added products for exports. Power supply can not be denied to such industries coming under special agreements. All these developmental works have enhanced the requirement of power to a gigantic extent.

People’s Need:

There are social events, ceremonies, government functions, roads and flyovers require extra lighting arrangements to facilitate assembly and movement of people with ease.

Gold Price Slashes:

There is an indication to show that the prices of gold, petroleum, shares and stocks are falling while the prices of essential commodities are increasing disorderly without reference to the market supply and demand.

Great Escape Expected

To tide over the grave situation, the state government is making arrangements with central government to bring sufficient minerals like uranium and thorium to improve atomic power generation. Good quality coal supply is expected to improve the power generation in other thermal power plants. Hydro electric power projects may improve their power situation by managing the storage of water efficiently. It is also expected to augment wind power generation by more number of wind mills.

Giant Generator Sets

The temporary solution could be establishment of giant size generator sets at all industries and business houses. There are bigger companies like Cummins to supply sufficient generator sets which run by diesel. The duty of the government is now shifted in supplying required quantity of diesel to the industries at a special low price.

Commitment to Improve the Country’s Power Generation

On any account, the improvement seems to be insufficient and discouraging.

A country or state with out electric power will lead to disaster as the cost of production escalates at an alarming rate. However, there is no improvement in the standard of living. There is loss of jobs in all sectors. One can expect a complete chaos in all social, political and industrial streams.

A dedicated plan with a commitment to improve the country’s power generation becomes quite essential and demanding need. Let us suffer for a while, manage temporarily for some time and focus and work for a giant improvement in power supply.