Speakers at a discussion meeting yesterday said that the people were facing severe electricity and gas crisis due to government's lack of commitment.

The government directed electricity generation and distribution companies to improve their quality of services to ease sufferings of people across the country due to non-stop electricity cut.

The city continued to witness power cuts in different areas following the private power distribution companies resorting to load-shedding on rotation basis. Delhi saw a peak load of 3434 MW in the last 24 hours, while the discoms resorted to load-shedding to the tune of 125 MW.

Shortage of hydro-power leads to a shortfall in supply

NEW DELHI: When the mercury soared to over 41 degrees Celsius on Monday, Delhi

No remarkable improvement of power situation is seen in the ongoing summer season that causes huge suffering for the HSC examinees and Boro farmers. Residents and boro farmers yesterday experienced ten to sixteen hours electricity cut, according to sources.

There was 1,800MW of load shedding yesterday against the demand of 5,500MW, sources said.

According to a Recorder Report the federal cabinet has refused to give post facto approval to a memorandum of understanding signed last year by the Ministry of Water and Power and representatives from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for the import of 1000MW electricity from those countries.

Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun April 20, 2009, 0:58 IST

States refuse return power due to general elections.

Uttarakhand is facing acute electricity crisis with the state-run power corporation finding it tough to buy it from other states even at higher rates.

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai April 19, 2009, 0:18 IST

TE Narasimhan / Chennai April 19, 2009, 0:52 IST

Severe power shortage has hit industrial production in Tamil Nadu. Companies said production could be down as much as 30 per cent. Sectors like textile, leather and salt appear to be among the worst hit. Industry associations Industry associations put the loss in production at around Rs 4,000 crore.

Director General (Management and Conservation) of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) Tahir Basharat Cheema said on Friday highly obsolete machinery installed at factories was resulting in inefficient consumption of energy in the Pakistan.