Load-shedding woes crossing limits

Needless to say, the countrywide power outage is having disastrous effects on the lives of people, both in long and short terms. The media has already dealt with the various ramifications, ill-effects and consequences of the ongoing power outage. However, one particular aspect we would like to highlight is its serious consequences for the students scheduled to sit for their HSC examinations in about a week's time. This power outage unlike in other sectors will not only affect the exam results of individual students in immediate terms but will also cast a shadow on their future careers, the burden of which they will have to carry for the rest of their lives.

It is a disquieting scenario for a developing society striving to reach higher productivity goals. Deeply concerned over the deteriorating power supplies as we are, we strongly believe that much of this crisis could have been avoided but for the lack of planning and proactive monitoring of the supply grids/power units by concerned agencies and the overall mismanagement of the sector by the administration.

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Surely, in the last four years most of the repair works of the major power grids could have been undertaken and by now completed. It is also our observation that much of the repair and maintenance work could have been carried out with our own resources.