A month long winter vacations in an MBA course is a luxury provided by very few colleges in the world and I’m one of those lucky few who are enjoying this luxury. Relaxing in the comfort of home in the winters, life appears to be just perfect but the human mind being such will always find a reason to crib about. And the reason that I have found out is the pathetic state of electricity supply in my hometown Faridabad.
The power situation in most parts of Haryana has gone from bad to worse over the last few years, the same period during which we have been flooded with reports about India’s tremendous growth story.
I wonder what kind of growth this is when one of the developed states of the nation is facing such a crisis. Faridabad, one of the big industrial hubs of the country, has to bear around 12 hours of power cuts each day and similar is the situation in Gurgaon, the so called “India’s Singapore”!!!! Though when I move out of my home at night during a power cut, I feel as if I have reached Kandahar!!!!
The situation is such that a family can’t survive without an inverter and an industry or a commercial establishment can’t run without a generator. Even a lower middle class family living in a single room home can’t do without an inverter. If we total the investment on inverters and generators in a city like Faridabad, I’m sure the amount would be sufficient to build a power plant sufficient to serve the city 24*7!!!! Then the question arises why can’t the government build these power plants???? The answer lies in the fact that on an average the time lag between the conceptualization and operationalization of a power plant is more than the shelf life of a Government and so no Government is willing to bear the effort and costs because it knows that by the time the benefits of the project can be seen a new party would be in power to take credit of the development. And so they just follow the policy of make hay while the sun is shining and the nation keeping crying……
-Varun Sood
MBA 2006-08
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