Hydel generation drops to 1900 megawatts

Hydel generation dropped to 1900 megawatt due to a shortage of water in dams, a situation that led to a shortfall of 5000 megawatt in total. Accordingly, the load shedding duration escalated to 10 hours in urban and 14 hours a day in rural areas. Power generation at the Mangla and Tarbela dams dropped to 450 megawatt each from 1000 megawatt and 3478 megawatt respectively.
The generation reduced to 400 megawatt from 1100 megawatt at the Ghazi Barotha dam. In total, the power generation at all the three dams dropped to 1300 megawatt against their original capacity of 5578 megawatt. The NTDC sources said power shortfall in the country stood at 5000 megawatt as the demand has risen to 14400 megawatt against a generation of 9400 megawatt.
The rural areas have got the worst hit of the situation as load shedding duration has jumped to 12 to 14 hours a day there. However, the NTDC officials are trying to control the phenomenon of load shedding in urban areas. But still, the unannounced load shedding has perturbed the urban consumers heavily and they are foreseeing worst situation ahead.