The Impact of Electricity and Gas Load Shedding on Social, Economic and Psychological Well Being of Factory Workers
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2017
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University of Management and Technology
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Influx of energy deficit wrapped everyone in its radar and this paucity causes towards the intense load-shedding of gas and electricity all over the country. Due to having power deficiency, residential and industrial areas are getting excessive interruption of gas and electricity that creates worst circumstance for the citizens. The progress and prosperity of economic circuit is heavily depends on the energy sector and due to having fierce shortage of electricity and gas towards the industrial zones, the working class of factories is becoming protuberant victim of thIs whole scenario. The purpose of conducting this research was to examine and co-relate the impact of energy crises with social, economic and psychological well-being of factory workers. Mixed research method was used to analyze the results through in-depth interview and five-lickert questionnaires, target population of this study was two rice factories of Mandi Faz Abad, from where twenty factory workers were selected for qualitative section through judgmental sampling technique and fifty factory workers were selected for quantitative section with the courtesy of convenient sampling technique. Results revealed that, significant negative relationship were found between energy crises and well-being of the factory workers in Mandi Faiz Abad, they were having immense social, economic and psychological ignominy due to the interruption of enrgy supply towards their work places. There daily day necessities were not fulfilled in such era of inflation due to having insufficient salaries, stress of getting unemployed and fear of bright-less futures make them socially and psychologically infirm which lead them towards pathetic circumstances while living in the society.
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Supervised by: Mrs. Tayyaba Sohail
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Energy deficit, Factory Workers, BS Thesis