Thirty Days In October And The Day After

Thirty Days In October And The Day After - Day 17

That South Bombay did not have power supply for almost around 16 hours made headlines and news is amusing. Amusing because in other parts of the state they actually don't have electricity for almost 16 hours a day. All the name of load shedding and shortage of power supply. One of friends came across an interesting article proving why load shedding is compounding the problem instead of solving it. With the growing hours of load shedding people have started using inverters which store and consume even more amount electricity than all that has been saved through load shedding. So the article raised some pertinent question regarding what exactly is the government trying to achieve?

As far as I am concerned, I still don't believe we live 21st Century given the frequent power cuts we are subjected to in addition to daily scheduled hours of load shedding. Nobody wants to cut down on leakage and theft. Nobody wants to do a reality check on subsidized electricity being doled out to few filthy rich farmers (yes we do have them) despite their capability to buy electricity. However the poor farmers and those in genuine need have to pay through their nose and are also subjected to tariff increase as well. Somebody has to cover the deficit and the money that is lost, right. It cannot be collected from the politicians or the various government bodies (yes, its true and neither is it a big secret) sitting on crores outstanding amount payable to Maharashtra State Electricity Board. Yet the same amount can definitely collected from the common man who religiously pays up on time month after month, year after year. Poor chap sometimes pays as much bill as a couple of air conditioners would not generate for using bare minimum electricity. He cannot afford to default either.

Given the situation God alone knows when the citizens will have a day that passes without a single power cut or an hour of load shedding. Such day will surely create breaking news....but nobody will bother to cover it because nobody really cares those who die everyday.

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