Service-recipients face problem due to poor charging stations

Service-recipients are deprived of service as the charging station based at Muglin Bazaar, Ichhakamana rural municipality-5, Chitwan, remains out of condition for a couple of months.    

The charging nozzle of the charging station is said to broken and two DC chargers are dysfunctional less than a year since the station was installed. Only one AC charger is operating at present. It takes long time to charge vehicles only from the AC charger, complained service recipients.    

Ram Bahadur Thapa of Chitawan who came to charge his car complained that service-seekers including himself have been facing problem as the charging station here still remains unrepaired. As he said, one has to wait for hours on end charging vehicles using AC charger. He said his vehicle was charged only six per cent in 20 minutes.    

People have to wait in queue for many hours to charge their vehicles since there are not enough charging stations.    

Shiva Adhikari, project manager of Digo, the company which is responsible for constructing the charging station, said that the problem is due to the broken charging nozzle and they have already ordered for the required spares that need to be changed. The equipment would be arriving in a day or two, he assurred. According to Adhikari 62 charging stations have been installed throughout the country through the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and problems have been detected in 20 of them.