Summer Arrival, Electricity Departure
(Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Karachi)
At last the summer started with
full of scorching beams of the Sun. Perhaps, people either feel better or worse
in the summer but one thing that surely affects and arouses their feelings is
“electricity breakdown” or “power failure” that is always standing with the open
mouth to gobble the people.
Electricity shortage has been the issue not only in summer but also in the
winter. People have serious concerns over the issue before the summer is
forthcoming because they know that in winter season, they can survive without
electricity but in summer, they can hardly bear the electricity breakdown.
The concerns of the people regarding the electricity breakdown is appearing to
be true as the duration of the load-shedding has increased in early days of the
summer these days. Not only the duration of the load-shedding but also the
timings of the load-shedding have been changed due to which people doing jobs
are being seriously affected.
A person who returns home in the morning after a night job and is in search of a
sound sleep but when he lies down in the bed, the light goes off. Think how
worse the thing is that! How can a man perform his job in a better way when he
cannot sleep better because sleeping not well paralysed the people mentally and
they are no more able to work?
On the other hand, a lot of domestic and urgent work which we have to perform
cannot be done only due to power failure or load-shedding and such situation
makes a man peevish. Despite paying electricity bills, which have been exceeded
in amounts and burdened a man a lot in this era of inflation and unemployment,
people are far away from their basic right to use proper electricity. They
already have been bearing the shortage of Sui gas in the winter and most of the
people went to their offices without having breakfast in the morning whereas
housewives were anxious about preparing lunch in the afternoon for their
children and cooking for the night.
At least we are able to eat food in summer season but deprived of electricity,
unfortunately. How long will this status quo remain?