Load-shedding will continue: NEA

March 12, 2006
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Officials at the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) have said the on-going load shedding will continue in the days ahead despite some rainfall in the capital and other parts of the country over the last two days.

Talking to Nepalnews on Sunday, managing director of the NEA Harischandra Shah said rain over the last two days was too little to make any impact in terms of power generation. “The level of water at Kulekhani reservoir went up by 7 cm.only (due to the rain). So, there is no other option than to prolong the load-shedding,” he added.

Shah further said that the NEA may be compelled to extend the duration of load-shedding at present (35 hours a week) if the dry spell continued.

Meanwhile, officials at the Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) have said the recent rainfall in the country was due to the western wind and not the initiation of the monsoon.

Meteorologist at the MFD, Shiva Prasad Nepal, said the latest rain was due to the western wind.

He further said the wind that was flowing from western parts of India and Nepal has already crossed the eastern region so there would be no more rain in the country.

The Department has said there will be improvement in the weather from Sunday.

According to DOHM, the mid-western district of Surkhet had the heaviest rainfall on Saturday receiving 53.2 mm of rain, while the eastern town of Simara had the least rainfall recording 1.7 mm rainfall.

Mr. Nepal of the MFD said rainfall during the monsoon will depend mainly on the pre-monsoon activities. Months of March and April are considered as pre monsoon period.

“The situation of thermal convection and thunder shocks will decide the situation of rainfall in the monsoon period,” he added.

The monsoon generally enters Nepal within June 10 every year .

There had been no rain in the country throughout this winter (November-February).