The Patan Industrial Estate (PIE) has made arrangement of internal load-shedding to minimize the impact of daily power shortage in industrial production.

The industries will close their production for 12 hours per week. At present, the daily load shedding by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is 35 hours per week.

The schedule is on a trial phase since Monday.

The estate consumes 250,000 units of electricity per month. With the new arrangement, the consumption has been reduced by about 25 percent. The arrangement has been made with the help of additional power generation through its three feeder sub-stations within the industrial site.

Meanwhile, NEA has said that the load shedding in Kathmandu during night time has been stopped from Tuesday evening. NEA has said that there would be no load shedding between 6 p.m. till 5:30 a.m. The arrangement has been made with the request of security agencies to maintain security during the night.

The NEA will be increasing load shedding during the day time instead.