Load Shedding

Load Shedding

The people living in the areas supplied with electricity are quite familiar with the term load-shedding. There is hardly  any area which is not affected by load-shedding. Load-shedding means the discontinuation of supply of electricity. Load-shedding occurs when generation of power is less then demand and also for unplanned distribution of electricity. It creates problem for far reaching consequences in the socio-economic development of a country .Houses, mils, factories and industries, shop,hospitals all fall a victim to it. The running mils, factories and industries come to stand still.Failure of electricity hampers the productivity. Domestic life become painful. The house wives grope under the darkness  in the kitchen. The suffering of students due to load-shedding  beggar description. The patients also suffer terribly for load-shedding. Operations are stopped. The food kept in the refrigerators get rotten. The commodities preserved in cold storage get spoiled. In fact, load-shedding causes great suffering to the people and an irreparable loss to the country. The entire life domestic and industrial comes to a standstill. An all out effort should be made to stop load shedding.