KATHMANDU, Dec 18: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to hike load shedding by 71 hours a week effective from Saturday.
With this new schedule, power will go off up to 10:15 hours a day in average, with additional hike in load-shedding by around two hours and 45 minutes to the previous schedule every day.
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As per the earlier schedule, the daily power-cut was limited to eight hours a day and 56 hours a week.
According to the NEA the load-shedding hours will go up as the water level in the rivers has decreased and those power houses destroyed by the earthquake have not yet come into operation. Besides, there is an increasingly high demand of electricity, resulting in the excessive load-shedding in the system.
