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PM makes merry while Nepal suffers 18-hour blackout

From Sunday, in an unprecedented turn in Nepal’s history, the state-run Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has imposed what it calls a 16-hour power outage daily in a bid to cope with the power crisis.

However, Phuyal points out that the government announcement is deceptive.

“If the lights come on only at 2 a.m., that’s no use to offices, factories, students and housewives,” she says.

“We look at how much power we are getting during waking and working hours and right now, it’s just six hours a day.”

The crisis was triggered by Nepal’s power-producing rivers drying up faster this winter following a lean monsoon.

The deficit has been mounting for decades due to corruption, mismanagement and political turmoil that prevented a succession of governments from commissioning new power projects.
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Less than a week after taking oath of office, Prachanda ignored a devastating flood in the south to go off on a pleasure trip to Beijing and attend the concluding ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Now, while hundreds of industries have been closed due to the power crisis, the agrarian graduate plans to visit three Scandinavian countries, ostensibly to study the harnessing of wind energy.