Kulman Ghising expects public support to strengthen load-shedding free campaign

Executive Chief of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising has expected support from the public sphere to strengthen the no load-shedding campaign.In his address to the unity conference of NEA Nepal National Employees Association ( NNEA) and National Employees Association here Friday, Ghising said he got information that a section of people who did not want to see an end to load-shedding were intended to cause damage to the NEA transmission system.He went on to say that despite challenges, the NEA was fully committed to expanding the no power outage drive (now in effect in the Kathmandu Valley) across the country, hoping for support from the civic-level towards that end.

Works were in progress with the intention of taking the NEA, which is presently in a loss to a profit-making company, within a couple of years, he added.Also addressing the program, Minister of State for Energy Satya Narayan Bhagat urged the NEA to focus its attention on the effectiveness of no load- shedding campaign and the control of power leakage.CPN (Maoist Centre) central member and Energy Department Chief Leelamani Pokhrel said energy was a base for country’s prosperity and the government should invest in it with open heart.