Workload has suddenly gone up for Nepal Electricity Authority’s (NEA) technician Arjun Katuwal these days as he has to reach at least two dozen sites a day to repair transformers and wires damaged by the overuse of electricity in the Kathmandu valley.Electricity use has gone up dramatically since India imposed unofficial embargo on Nepal on September 22, making transformer explosions common in the valley. Katuwal, who was on Friday found repairing a damaged transformer at Shankhamul along with his friend Raj Kumar Shrestha, said they were repairing the equipment for the third time. “We used to repair 2-4 transformers a day in the past, but the number has now soared to 24-25,” said Katuwal.He said some four-five groups of technicians from NEA’s New Baneshwor branch repair more than 100 transfers every day in surrounding areas. More than 500 transformers across the country, including 90 in the valley alone, have been damaged beyond repair in the past month, according to NEA. “This has caused financial losses of Rs150 million” said Ram Chandra Pandey, chief at NEA’s Distribution and Consumer Services Division. Amid a shortage of cooking gas and other petroleum prod - See more at: http://www.tajavdo.com/videos/transformer-blasts-common-in-valley/#sthash.OQKiOkMY.dpuf
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