The governor of the state Tamilisai Soundararajan today heaped praises on the state government for overcoming problems in the lower sector .
Addressing the joint session of the state legislature, She said that the Telangana State had achieved marvelous success surprising the entire nation. “In the erstwhile united AP rule, the people of Telangana suffered a lot due to power cuts and crop holidays. Industrial production too suffered badly due to power holidays. That was why people desired a separate state so that they could overcome that situation. The then rulers threatened that the state would plunge into utter darkness. Proving all their forecasts as false, the state Government transformed the state into an illuminating one,” She said.
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Tamilisai said that the very complicated power crisis in the state was overcome successfully by the state government within a very short span of time and added that the state had re-written a new history as the only state, which is providing 24-hour free power supply to the farm sector and uninterrupted power to all the sectors. “The installed power capacity at the time of formation of the State was only 7778 Mega Watts (MWs) whereas, it is 16245 MWs now. The then transmission capacity was 13,900 MVA (Megavolt Amperes) whereas now it reached 37,000 MVA. The per capita power consumption was 1110 Units then whereas, it is increased now to 2071 Units. This was announced by the Central Electricity Authority which is an indication of the great success that the Telangana State achieved in the power sector. Telangana’s per capita power consumption is higher than that of the Nation’s average of 1208 units. Solar power was only 71 MWs then and now it is 4840 MWs. Then the maximum peak demand of united AP was 13,162 MWs while it is 13,468 MWs recently,”
The governor said. She also said that the union government had complimented the success of the state government in power front for supplying uninterrupted quality power without any power cuts in spite of the marked increase in the number of power connections, per capita consumption, and maximum peak demand. She said, “This in itself is a great success story for the government which has been appreciated by the union government. In recognition of this success that the State Government registered in the power sector, the Council of Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) announced awards to the Electricity Corporations in the State. It is an indication of our progressive outlook that NITI Aayog has announced that Telangana got the third rank among the list of the best states which supply affordable clean energy without harming the environment and also with the considerably less financial burden on people.
This is yet another indication of the state’s progressive outlook in managing energy resources. The works on Yadadri, Bhadradri power plants are being completed on the fast track to make the State a power surplus state,” she said.
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She added that The Central Electricity Authority announced that the state government, by taking all necessary safeguards and working on a continuous basis, achieved successes in the power sector while noting that this sort of work has not taken place anywhere in the country.
SOURCE-NSS
