Chief Secretary Minnie Mathew has said that the power supply situation in the State was satisfactory.
Reviewing the power supply problems with all the district Collectors and Electricity Board officials from the Secretariat on Monday, the Chief Secretary said that the main reasons for the power scarcity were lack of adequate rainfall, non-availability of gas and lack of coal supply for generation of thermal power.
Stating that government was taking all possible measures to overcome the power crisis in the State, she directed the district Collectors to spare no efforts to provide seven-hour power supply to the farm sector. She also advised the Collectors to hold review meetings on power consumption with local electricity superintending engineers on daily basis. Minnie Mathew asked the Collectors to take stern action against those indulging in power theft and disconnect power supply to the offenders. She also directed the Collectors to form flying squads to curb theft of power.
Stating that 220 million units of power was being generated as against the needed 260 MU in the State, she asked the Collectors to take appropriate steps to improve the situation. She also suggested to the officials concerned to work in a disciplined manner in the matter of enforcing Load Relief.
Pointing out that power saved means to power generated, she asked all the concerned to bear this in mind and strive to save power by adopting austerity measures. She said that power should be consumed judiciously in the government departments and public sector undertakings.
Hyderabad district Collector Rizvi held a video conference with CPDCL chief general manager Satish Kumar, superintending engineer (North) M. Balaraju, superintending engineer (South) M. Suresh and local power officials and asked them to see that power cuts were avoided.
Principal Secretary (Energy) Mrityunjaya Sahu, APTransco CMD Heeralal Samariya, APCPDCL CMD Ananta Ramu and others participated in the video conference. (NSS)