LAMJUNG, DEC 30 - Even though the infrastructure for the electrification has been completed, the consumers of this region are still without electricity for the past year.
Around 1,200 households in Baglungpani, Tarkughat, Simpani, and Bahundada are still without electricity even though these houses have been connected with the electrical wires, mainly because these houses do not have metre boxes installed for the reading of the electricity that they may consume.
It is learnt that Lamjung Electricity Consumer Committee (LECC) is responsible of supplying electricity from the Electricity Authority Office and selling it to these consumers. The locals were not provided electricity, after the committee stopped distributing metres to these consumers since one year saying that production capacity of the Udipur substation was limited and could not supply power all consumers.
The total capacity of this substation is just 1600 kilovolts, which is not enough for the limited number of consumers who have been receiving an erratic supply. In order to fulfil the need of all consumers, a substation of at least 5000 KV capacity is required to be established, observes the chairman of the committee, Durga Prasad Khania.
Even the newly built houses at the various settlements, which have been enjoying power facility, are without lights. Harka Gurung of Beshisahar, who is the owner of a newly built house, laments that they have to light candles and oil-fed lamps during the night, even though other old houses in his neighbourhood have electricity.
The LECC has been supplying electricity to the people of this region since 1997. In the beginning there were 6694 consumers, which has now risen to 7705.
In order to overcome this shortage they had requested the Electricity Authority to increase their capacity, but nothing has been achieved so far, contended the chairman Khania.
The people around this region have been facing frequent load shedding, and in certain parts of this region the power supply is so low that the consumers are forced to live under dim lights.
It is learnt that LECC had taken the initiation of supplying electricity to Lamjung and Tanahun in 1999, but so far, only 26 VDCs in Lamjung and 4 in Tanahun have been able to avail from this service.Posted on: 2003-12-31 04:51

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