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“Impact of Load Shedding On Socio - Economic Life

of the People”. (A Study of Sargodha City)

1Yasir Javed Cheema ; Toqueer Amair ; Muhammad Irfan Qadir ; Mher Mohsin Raza

1-2-3 Lecturer University of Sargodha

4 Department of Education University of Sargodha

Abstract

This study is focused on “Impact of Load

Shedding on Socio - Economic Life of the

People :A Study of City Sargodha” The

objective of study was, to estimate the

impact of load shedding among common

people, to analyse the attitude of the people

towards the load shedding and to find out

the impacts of load shedding on socio –

economic life of the people. Interview

schedule was used as a tool for data

collected from 150 respondents it was

concluded that average age of the

respondents was 40 years. Male respondents

were 80% and Female respondents were

20%. Among the target population, 70.3%

respondents were married, 20.7% were

unmarried and 4% were Widow/ Widower.

Majority of respondents were married.

Majority of respondents 96% replied

experiencing load shedding in routine life;

we found that more than 97% of respondents

had negative views about load shedding

effecting on their life position. Hypothesis

has been proved with the help of findings

that and findings reveals that Load Shedding

Effecting on Your Life. In this context 97.3%

(146) respondents were reply –Yes and 2.7%

(4) were reply -No. It shows that both are

unequal. Another finding shows that Load

shading affects our exports. In this context

93.3% (140) respondents were replied –YES

and the, 6.7% (10) were replied -NO. Along

with findings reveals that Load Shedding

have Negative Impact on Country's

Reputation. In this context 92.7% (139)

respondents are reply–YES and the, 7.3%

(11) are reply -NO. Load Shedding is the

cause of high rate of crimes. In this context

74.7% (112) respondents are reply –YES

and the, 25.3% (38) are reply -NO. Basis of

Load Shedding is the cause of noise

pollution. In this context 70.0% (105)

respondents are reply

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Introduction

Load shedding in Pakistan has become one

of the major issues like inflation,

unemployment, child labour, suicide bomb- blast, illiteracy and last but not least political

instability. This issue or problem has made

his way in the country due to irresponsible

government leaders and unawareness of

nation. (The Pakistani Spectator - Dec 21st

,

2008) The amazing fact regarding the lives

and daily routines of poor and patient people

of Pakistan is that they never tried to get a

leader for their benefit and always wanted to

have their country progressive. In Pakistan

we could find the lions who could even

work without having electricity. Students

are the key resources for success of any

country. These would be the pillars the

country would be standing on. Students are

the pillar of a nation. They would be the

researchers, teachers, scientists, politicians

of tomorrow. They are the future and for the

better future, one needs to give them better

present life, environment. Students, as

dependent variables, have a lot of

independent variables for example,

electricity load shedding. Theoretical

literature confirms that energy especially

electricity load shedding decelerate the

efficiency of the students. Ahmad and Ali

(2009) found that performance and results of

learners are affected by energy (in particular

power) shortage.

Load shedding was implemented to

save money. It also saves pollution. Load

shedding is what electric utilities do when

there is a huge demand for electricity that

exceeds the generation available. Their

tentative is to have a brown-out where the

voltage is reduced. It costs a lot to have

generators standing by just in case there is a

surge of demand, and the operators of those

generators expect to be paid whether they

run the generators or not. An alternative is if

there is a large consumer of electricity (say,

a factory) that could suddenly turn off all its

electricity demand, they could agree to do

that on request, and it has the same benefit

as adding that amount of generation to the

electric grid. In fact, its better -- as there is

less demand on the wires which are often

saturated at the same time. That factory has

losses from shutting down its equipment and

idling its workers, but if the money it gets

paid is enough, then it's worth it. This is a

perfect example of load shedding. There are

many other cases where lots of smaller

consumers agree to reduce demand on hot

summer days, such as by reducing air

conditioning or lighting. Someone who

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aggregates all these smaller cases can have

the same effect as one big generator and so

get the same money, and the operators of the

electric grid are happy as it effectively

solves the peak demand problem. Pollution

can be reduced by load-shedding as well.

Often, the generators that you run as a last

resort are the least efficient and most

polluting. If you don't need to run those

because you saved energy elsewhere for the

few hours of highest power demand. It is

difficult to quantify the effect of load

shedding on students who have to study for

exams that can potentially change their

lives. It is also difficult to quantify the effect

these power outages have on children who

grew up during the last five years’ on those

who are ill; on those visiting from other

countries; or on people who can’t get proper

sleep on a regular basis.

A major underlying cause of load

shedding is the circular debt accrued over

the years by the government. In the past two

decades, short-term policies by successive

governments have only exacerbated the

power shortage problem. Apart from circular

debt, line losses, theft and non-payment by

various governmental departments are also

issues that need to be sorted out. Another

important step that needs to be taken is to

explore alternative ways of generating

electricity. Currently, Pakistan gets energy

via thermal and hydel sources. Thermal

power plants require furnace oil which is

subject to international pricing and thus an

expensive option. Solar energy, wind

energy and tidal energy are the future of

sustainable energy and a state-initiated drive

to explore these options is necessary.

Justification of the Study

The increasing load shedding is having

adverse effects on all walks of life and load

shedding is the most common problem that

is found in the country, that’s why we

selected this topic. And this problem is

affecting mostly industry, agriculture sector,

and various other as well as leading people

towards frustration. Unscheduled load

shedding has crippled our routine life.

Successive regimes in Pakistan has failed to

launch any mega projects like big dam to

store water and generate power students

suffer greatly from excessive load shedding.

Those students who are unable to pay their

proper attention towards study due to load

shedding how they would be able to study

properly without having fresh mind load

shedding badly affected their studies which

would prove in poor results. Students need a

fresh mind to study and excessive load