The capacity of the nation's and the eastern region's power plants to produce electricity decreases by two-thirds when the rivers' water levels drop in the second week of April, so the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), under the leadership of Managing Director Kul Man Ghising, has made efforts to address the issues by supplying electricity to the region's industrial areas. However, the NEA MD Ghising was called to resign during a protest by a group of industrialists, some of whom also own run-off river hydropower and some of whom are defaulters. Individually motivated protests against NEA and MD Ghising came to a disastrous end when the local power supply was restored.