Load shedding in Kathmandu – Samikshya Neupane Saturday, Dec 5 2009

Load shedding refers to the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent overloading. It is the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system. Cutting off the electric current for certain period is also known as load shedding. On certain lines load shedding occurs when the demand becomes greater than the supply. It is the act or practice of temporarily reducing the load shedding also known as power outage is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area. It is a procedure in which parts of an electric power system are disconnected in an attempt to prevent failure of the entire system due to overloading.

There are various causes of load shedding. It caused by insufficient available resources to meet prevailing demand for electricity. Load shedding, is an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage. They are usually in response to a situation where the demand for electricity exceeds the power supply capability of the network. Load shedding generally result from two causes: insufficient generation capacity or inadequate transmission infrastructure to deliver sufficient power to the area where it is needed. Kathmandu, faced with an influx of rural migrants and rising energy demands, faces load-shedding even during the monsoon when the rains fill the water reservoirs where electricity is generated. During the dry winter months, electricity was cut up to sixteen hours per day, leading to disruption of the economy. In the rest of the country, electrification has occurred patchily, although in some small villages a small hydropower project set up locally may function more reliably than the power supply of the capital city. Examples of these causes include, faults at power stations, damage to power lines, substations or other parts of the distribution system, a short circuit, or the overloading of electricity mains.

Load shedding is miserably destroying the life of people. Moreover, students are badly affected by this. The career of students is in dark but government isn’t paying serious attention to this sector. Neither the concerned departments are showing interest on this matter.
(About the writer: Samikshya Neupane is a Development studies student studying at National College. She is very interested in writing about the current happening around her. Her articles are far away from the politics.)

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Some Fact of Life Saturday, Dec 5 2009

• We cannot make someone love us. All we can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
• No matter how much we care, some people just don’t care back.
• It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
• It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in your life that counts.

• We shouldn’t compare our self to the best others can do, but to the best we can do.

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Walk for Identity- I -Niroj Maharjan Saturday, Dec 5 2009

Lalitpur
Lalitpur, the city of fine arts lies across the Bagmati river south of the central Kathmandu valley. This city is commonly known as Yala or Patan.
The legend of the formation of this city is described in many ways. On of the most prominent legend is that there was once an ugly grass cutter who visited Mani Jogini in the valley to sell grass. One day, while he was cutting grass he felt extremely thirsty and went in search of water. He looked everywhere but could not find a single drop to drink. Finally, he found a tank and bathed and drank from it. When he came out of the water he had been transformed into a hansome man. He went to the city to sell his grass and there the king saw him. The king was surprised at his sudden transformation and named him Lalit, which means “beautiful”. The king thought to build a memorial on the spot where the miracle took place. However, he could not find a suitable name for it. Later a voice in a dream advised him to call it Lalit Patan and asked him to build a city around it. The next morning the king sent Lalit across the Bagmati River with a vast sum of money and ordered him to build a city named Lalitpur.
According to a very old Kirat chronicle, Prem Bahadur subba in his research says Patan was founded by Kirati rulers. According to him the earliest known capital was most possibly shifted from Thankot to Patan after the Kirati King Yalamber came into power sometime around second century A.D.Hence, it is said that King Yalamber named this city after himself as Yala.
At present the city is divided into 22 municipal wards and is inhabited by almost 2 Lakhs people. An active population of the city is engaged in various trades, specially in traditional handicrafts and cottage industries. Lalitpur is only town in entire Nepal that has poduced the higest number of most talented artists and finest craftsmen ever recorded in Nepalese art history. The most famous artists like Arniko , Abhay Raj and Siddhi Raj were all born here.

(About the author: Niroj Maharjan is a Development studies student studing at National College. He is very interested in the ancient cultures and heritages. The information mentioned in his articles are mostly based on the myth but this does not mean that they are friction.)

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