Sir: I seek to express my concern on the difficulties faced by us on daily basis with regards to the prevailing energy crisis in our country. I shall feel highly obliged if you will publish my views on the subject in your esteemed Daily.
The energy crises have caused various problems for us. The menace has assumed serious proportions now. There is no gas or electricity in numerous majorities of areas. Electricity, gas, water, fuel is essential part of our daily life and its outage has severely affected the economy and overall living of ours. Thousands have lost their jobs, businesses; our daily life has become miserable. Pakistan is currently facing up to 18 hours of electricity outage a day, is expected to face more if not dealt with in time.
The system of energy supply needs, complete overhauling.
I want to emphasize on some prospective alternatives to our electricity production that are cheaper and they provide more cleanly electric energy as compared to fossil fuel run energy plants. At domestic level, alternate methods like solar, biogas and other methods should be tried. It is also important to plant relevant and qualified people at the key policy and decision making positions. Quite often, these positions are offered to utterly irrelevant, ill-qualified and incompetent people. The technical issues, if there be any, have to be addressed on the drawing board, rather in processions. In order to tackle the existing crisis and ensure a prosperous energy future, the backbone of the future energy policies would have to be reliance on domestic resources (hydropower, coal and solar and wind energy) and energy conservation. Also more importantly decisions on energy projects should revolve around national interest rather than naive political and personal gains.
I hope these views will help provide some short-term as well as long-term solutions to this problem. I have done my best to conclude and sketch up some recommendations in the light of identified hurdles in the way of implementing the appropriate solution to our problem.
Qazi Shaharyar Akhter
Via Email
Published in Daily Times, April 23rd 2018.
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