Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has accused his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Nara Chandrababu Naidu of creating energy crisis in Telangana State.
Intervening in the discussion on the issue in the State Legislative Assembly on Monday, KCR alleged that Telangana was being denied its share of about 980 MW power by Andhra Pradesh. He said that Telangana Government holds investments of Rs 550 crore in power projects of Andhra Pradesh. He accused Naidu of pressurising the Centre to stop power generation at Srisailam project. He also condemned the AP Chief Minister for illegal cancellation of PPAs.
The Chief Minister said that the Centre had constituted Neeraja Mathur Committee to study the issue and the committee had supported Telangana Government’s stand. However, Naidu has been delaying the implementation of committee’s recommendations. He accused the earlier regimes of ignoring power projects in Telangana. He said Mangusura, Ramagundem and Sattupalli thermal projects were shelved by previous governments. He said ideally, Telangana should have had a generation of 8900 MW from 1966 to 2014. However, it is still facing the shortage and therefore, it had to depend on other States to meet power requirements.
KCR reiterated that the Telangana State would generate 21,000 MW power in the next years. They include 1200 MW from thermal plants near Singareni Colleries and 4,000 MW from NTPC.
The Chief Minister also denied allegations of him not approaching the Centre. He said he had sought from the Prime Minister’s Office to take an all-party delegation. But he could not get Prime Minister Naredra Modi’s appointment. He said he would the PMO again after the Assembly passes a unanimous resolution in this regard. (INN)