The
price of electricity has suddenly increased across the world and
meanwhile the coal stock in coal-fired power plants in India has
depleted. About 70 percent of the electricity generation in India
comes from coal-fired power plants. The central government is not
able to accept that there is a coal crisis in the country and due to
its policy of turning a blind eye to every problem, any problem can
prove to be formidable for the country.
The
story of industrial coal mining in India began with Raniganj in West
Bengal where the East India Company mined coal for the first time in
1774 in the Narayankudi area.
But
at that time the industrial revolution did not reach India and the
demand for coal was very less. In such a situation, there was no
large scale coal production in India for the next one century. Due to
heavy rains this year also there has been a reduction in the
production and supply of coal.
The
Coal Minister, however, said, "If we combine the figures of the
last several years, we will find that this year, the production and
supply of coal has been the highest in September and especially in
October. Along with this, the lack of electricity has also had a bad
effect on the economy. Recently, in a study done by the World Bank,
the lack of energy was said to be a hindrance to economic
development. During the meeting, all the states unanimously
acknowledged the lack of desired supply of coal and several policy
lapses as the reason for the power crisis. There is a 1200 MW thermal
power plant in Hisar, Haryana, which requires five rakes of coal per
day, whereas it gets only two rakes available. The coal that he gets
also contains about 40 percent ash, which the plant has to spend a
lot in disposing of it.
Due
to the increase in heat, the load of power houses has also more than
doubled now. Due to increasing load, the power light is going off
again and again.The temperature is reaching 45 degrees during the
day. Hot winds are bothering people. People's problems are read due
to the strong sunlight since morning. To save from the heat, people
resort to AC and coolers at home and office. If it is winter then we
resort to high voltage devices like geysers, blowers, heaters, due to
which the power consumption and load is increasing. Due to this, now
the transformers are also responding due to which the faces of the
transformers start flying. Earlier houses used to load 300 amperes,
in today's time, 700 amperes are loaded in houses. More than 15 lakh
units are being consumed in a day. Earlear, 50 lakh units of
electricity were consumed in many districts, but now this consumption
has increased to 65 lakh units. In view of this problem, now the load
capacity of 15 transformers has been increased. Earlier the capacity
of these transformers was 100 KVA but now the capacity has been
increased to 200 KVA.
Districts
like gurugram and its suburban areas are
likely
to face
ongoing power cuts, shortage of coal or blowing up of transformers.
The shortage of coal has led to the shortage of electricity.
The
Minister of Power Department for haryana
says that there may be a power crisis.It is worth noting that after
giving dearness allowance from the government, it was asked to be
given along with the salary of October 2021. Along with this salary,
it was said that even after giving arrears of increment. According to
a
senior official,
thousands
of
engineers and employees were engaged in power distribution,
generation and management companies.
The
Government of India will have to take a big step for the ongoing
power problem. One of the reasons for the power problems due to
shortage of coal is coal scam and power theft. The government should
also investigate this issue, so that this problem of coal shortage
and power theft can be reduced to some extent, people's homes will be
able to supply electricity from it. Due to bribery and arbitrariness
of electricians in the electricity department, the problem of law and
order continues to arise in the district due to bandhs, road jams,
demonstrations. On the other hand, instead of solving these problems,
the officers of the department are eager to destroy the consumers
more than necessary in the name of revenue recovery.
The
businessmen, doctors and common citizens of the district also
apprised the DM about this problem. But, till now neither the
people's bills are improving. No faulty meter is being repaired. Even
after depositing the amount, the new meter is not working on time.
Departmental officers are running a one-point campaign of revenue
recovery. The process of registering an FIR against people in this
name is going on in full swing. Hardly a week passes when there is no
movement for replacement of dilapidated wires, damage to life and
property due to falling wires, and demand for replacement of
transformers. These days, complaints of sending electricity bills
without giving electricity connections are also coming in large
quantities to the public court of the District Magistrate. Replace
the dilapidated wires or the increased cities of all the districts
should do 200 KVA transformers and the District Magistrate should pay
attention to the complaints regarding power supply. There are 74
thousand electricity consumers in the district. Of these, 18,000
houses do not have meters. These people are being billed at a fixed
rate.A large number of government offices and residences are also
included in this, their meters should be fixed. The department claims
to replace most of the worn out wires. But, the wires of many
localities of the city are still completely dilapidated, there is a
need to replace those wires. Somewhere 11 KVA wire is passing over
the roof of the people and somewhere the electric wire is passing
through bamboo for one kilometer, this condition should be improved.
FIRs
have been ordered against big defaulters by the senior officers. The
revenue recovery campaign is going on on his own instructions. The
department is also making efforts to replace the worn out wires and
solve other problems of the consumers. Hopefully most of the problems
will be resolved soon.
The
problem of electricity in our country has to be solved by the
government by taking some strict steps, investigating the coal scam
and closing it, stopping electricity theft by meter by checking the
meter, replacing the dilapidated wires, bamboo from place to place.
The government can overcome this problem to some extent by installing
poles for passing wires, installing 200 kVA transformers in every
district village and taking some other steps. In this way, in the
coming time, electricity trouble can also be eliminated.
On
the ongoing power problem of the government, it is decided that the
department has started a new system to provide good facilities to the
electricity consumers. Under this, every problem of the consumers
will be solved immediately. In order to provide more convenience to
the consumers, Power Corporation has divided City Town into two
parts. Four power sub-stations will be included in Town I and two
power sub-stations in Town II, this will also get rid of this problem
of electricity bill.
