Energy crisis is the main cause of diminishing the Pakistani economy as most of our factory owners have closed down their factories due to energy crisis. Although, Government is trying to get energy from coal, wind, hydro etc for the sake of generating electricity but it is not a single day game to get energy from these sources. In October 2011, Pakistan was facing the worst ever shortfall of electricity i.e. 8000 megawatts which caused a massive load shedding on a large scale across the country. There were many factors that caused historic shortfall of electricity. First is the circular debt which is approximately 400 billion rupees. Secondly, for generating electricity many IPP’s (independent power producers) are running across the country and almost all IPP’s are dependent on oil for generating electricity. Oil supply was disturbed due to non payments to oil companies .That’s why many of these power plants were forced to shut down. People were becoming so violent that even sometimes they called for strike and clashed with law enforcement agencies personnel resultantly it created law and order problem across the whole country. Government was forced to take emergency action to solve this energy crisis. Although situation is better now but it is not a long term solution of this problem.
Questions:
Referring to the eight quality management principles, how can these principles be practically implemented to the power and electricity sector in Pakistan in order to improve electricity problem? Discuss any 5 principles. (5 * 3 = 15 Marks)
