LOAD SHEDING

Pakistan is currently going through one of the most threatening problems

and issues which is the load shedding of Electricity for both domestic
and commercial use. This issue has been very devastating for the
national economy as the industries have been adversely affected due to
this drastic short fall. Currently Pakistan is facing more than 6000 mega
watts short fall due to which in the urban areas the load shedding of
electricity is being done on a regular schedule of 10-12 hours daily while
in the rural areas the situation is even worse as the people living in rural
areas the schedule of Load shedding is almost 15-16 hours daily which
is just too much and due to this excessive and continuous rising shortfall
has made the lives of the people of Pakistan very much problematic. At
present Pakistan is producing round about 14,000 mega watts of
electricity while the consumption which is ever increasing due to the
needs and the high population of the local people has reached 20,000
mega watts so the shortfall of 6000 mega watt is the main and moist
crucial reason for this load shedding.
The destructive load shedding which is being done in Pakistan has been
frustrating for Pakistani people because it has affected their routine work
and the most importantly has affected the businesses which are being
processed in the country. Electricity is considered to be one of the most
crucial and basic necessity for running any business and industry and its
short fall has dented the national economy. Many locals who were
running their industries in the state have taken their units out of the
country which has significantly reduced the production of the country
and the economy which was already very poor has even fallen down to a
major extent.

The protest of load shedding has been made all over the country in
which various extremist and violent people have even wasted a lot of
national property of people and government which has been the threat to
the law and order situation of the state. The government on the other
hand been poor and very much unrealistic in dealing with the issue and
initially they relied on the rental power plants which increased the cost
of the electricity and the burden was being made on the shoulders of the
local people which were not done. The government has not shown any
clear intention of producing and increasing the production on their own
my making more production plants active and operative and are still
very much focus on importing it which is not the right solution. The
federal government of Pakistan has to deal with this issue on high
priority basis because this load shedding of electricity is one of most
deadly hindrance in between the growth and success of Pakistan.