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Frequent power outages a nightmare for city dwellers

Staff Correspondent
Residents of the city's Rampura and Badda areas, especially the elderly people and children, are becoming sick after passing successive nights due to frequent power outage, a situation they never experienced in die past.
City dwellers living in WAPDA Road, Banasri and Mohanagar projects are now in dire straits, as they feel the pinch of hot and humid weather in ever-dctcriorating power crisis no matter it is at daytime or at night.
Over the last several days, they are facing frequent power disruptions at least three times between midnight and early morning -- the usual timings for sleeping. The dwellers said they are just passing sleepless nights.
“Night has become a nightmare for us," said Tamim Tania, a resident ofWAPDA Road. She said load shedding has its domino etTects as it disrupts supply of water, which is essential for cooking and bathing.
“I get up early in the morning, cook food and prepare my baby for school by 7:00am. This is simply not possible if you can't sleep at night," lamented the mother, who was forced to stop sending her kid to die school.
DiJara Akhter Poppy, another resident, told The Daily Star yesterday that her school-going child fell sick due to lack of sound sleep for nights She said she somehow solves the problem using her hand fan at night.
"We can manage the matter if there is no electricity at daytime. What else can we do if supply is suspended for hours after midnight." said Dilara, adding that she is planning to buy an instant power supply (IPS) device.
For Suvra. who works in a private farm and lives in Banasri area, thing is now different. He bought an IPS a few days ago.
“My father is ill. He and my baby boy need an uninterrupted power supply to remain well,” he said, regretting that the power supply
has become so unusual that he cannot get his IPS battery fully charged.
The city dwellers who have the buying capacity of an IPS, they become desperate to buy it in order to rescue them from the nagging situation. For the impoverished, fixed income groups, thing will remain unchanged and they have to accept the inevitable.
Not only Rampura, most of the city areas are experiencing the same kind of adverse situation as the country's power situation is increasingly becoming bad to worse in every passing days.
The average load shedding increases every month because of the dip in power generation and surge in the demand for electricity in the sweltering summer heat.
According to the PDB's estimate, the average load shedding increased to 782 megawatt till June 19 from 765 MW in May, although the demand for electricity was less in June than May because of the monsoon.