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Due to the heavy load shedding, the buying and selling of electric lantern and batteries have hopped up very high. The demand of inverters, ups and batteries has totally crossed the supply as the dealers dealing in such equipments are not able to supply in a sufficient quantity. The availability of the diesel run generators is also zero in the market. In spite of the hike in diesel, people are obliged to run diesel operated generators as they are more reliable than other electric lanterns which need to be electrically charged.

And in the remote areas where there is access to electricity, the buying and selling of kerosene run lanterns have increased. Those shops which used to deal with such lanterns hardly sold a piece a day and now they have been selling more than ten a day. With this, the consumption of kerosene oil has also increased.

Among those who have been terribly affected by the load shedding includes the electric vehicles. Thirty six hours of load shedding a week is unbearable and to cope up with this problem the only solution is electric lanterns in the urban areas.

Now the question is when people use such lights which need to be charged electrically, will Nepal Electricity Authority be controlling the electric consumptions? Leaving the load shedding hours, each and every house would be consuming more electricity than other normal hours. They would be busy in recharging the batteries and lanterns.

So this load shedding doesn’t mean saving electric consumption at all.