Nepal Television Use Lanterns

Kantipur television announcer read the news with a lighted lantern

Nepal Television Use Lanterns. Television stations in Nepal protest against power cut policy by making the news in the dark. 

Since February, the television station Kantipur Television is using a kerosene lantern lights for the reader as a news bulletin is broadcast at 7 pm local time.  Head of news Kantipur said the move was made as a pressure for the government to tackle the problem of electricity.

Every day for 12 hours a population of Nepal suffered power outages. "We want the government to increase electricity production as soon as possible," said the head of the preaching of Kantipur, Tirtha Koirala told the BBC. "So far we get a positive response from our audience, but there is no reaction from the government." Currently, Nepal is only capable of producing electricity at less than half the country's population needs, and the debate about the importance of hydropower development is still happening. During the 10-year conflict between Maoist rebels and the government, which ended in 2006, known to the investment in the electricity sector in that country only a little.

Moreover, the power supply in the country was also a result of the destruction of electrical transmission lines when the floods in river Kosi, 2008. To save electricity, the government made a power cut in some parts of the country every day. The big problem occurs when winter arrives, due to low rainfall and the decline in water discharge in the river create hydroelectric power can not operate optimally.

Officials of government-owned electricity generation company said in a blackout the next few weeks will be at least 14 hours a day. 

"We have suffered greatly because of the huge burden," said Koirala.

"About 400,000 students will take the exam and they learn without electric lighting in the afternoon.

"Also, small and medium companies who do not have a generator can not operate."

Koirala said the program will continue to make news bulletin broadcast in the dark until there is no response from the government.