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Nepal enters 19 hours load shedding schedule. The crisis in electricity power creates a nationwide crisis. Electricity shortage is the most threatening issue for the economic and social development of Nepal. Incidences of robbery and petty crimes go up during the lurky dark hours. Hospitals refuses accepting emergency and injury cases due to the inability to operate their vital machines. Every aspect of society is affected by consequences of load shedding.

Before the dawn breaks and people are barely awake, the lights are already removed from the homes of every people. This withering injustice is swerving away the lives of people dark and gray. It is down trading the big business houses of potential entrepreneurs, tearing away the pages of knowledge of aspiring students, depreciating the value of machines without having sold it, taking away the lives of patients who could gave fared if brought a minute before the lights are cut off.

Nepal's April 2008 election was a climactic end to a 12-year conflict. As the country transitions to peace, efforts are underway to ensure that perpetrators of killings, abductions and torture are held accountable. As valid as this goal might be, transitional justice mechanisms should not continue to neglect economic and social justice issues. This article begins by explaining economic and social injustice as both a root and a product of Nepal's conflict, and demonstrates the deep commitment reflected in Nepal's peace agreement to addressing this injustice. This is juxtaposed with international and local transitional justice efforts that concentrate overwhelmingly on civil and political rights. After addressing the possibility of relegating economic and social justice to the development and postconflict reconstruction fields, the article suggests ways in which Nepal's transitional justice efforts might pursue such justice.