Hyderabad: Under the dynamic leadership of Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with the unstinted support from State Government, close monitoring with precise planning on day to day basis and concerted efforts of all employees, for the first time in the history, 24 hours power is being successfully implemented from 01.01.2018 onwards to 23 Lakh agriculture pump sets in Telangana state. It is our pride that, Telangana is the only State in the Country to achieve this distinction to end the despair of farmers. For this extra ordinary achievement, entire credit goes to team work of power sector.
Disclosing the above details, after paying floral tributes on the occasion of the Birth Anniversary of freedom fighter and former Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Babu Jagjivan Ram here at Vidyut Soudha, D. Prabhakar Rao, CMD/TSGENCO & TSTRANSCO, said that to make the State self sufficient in Power, TSGENCO has commenced the projects of 5880 MW capacity at Manuguru (4×270 MW), Kothagudem (1×800 MW) and Dameracherla (5×800 MW) with an investment of Rs.37,938 Crores. The works are going on war footing. The initiative of Government to develop power through public sector has received appreciation from all over the country.
The State grid has met a peak demand of 10,284 MW on 8th March 2018 which is an all time record in the history of Telangana Power sector. Further, Transmission and Distribution System is fully geared up to meet load up to 11000 MW in coming seasons. To meet this Rs.12,136 Crores are invested towards strengthening of Transmission and Distribution System.
Telangana State has taken major initiative in promoting Green Power through proclamation of “Telangana State Solar Policy – 2015”, which is appreciated as the best one in the Country. Telangana Utilities have implemented a unique distributed generation model for adding Solar Capacity, which is being adopted by other states also. Solar capacity at the time of State Formation was 30 MW only. Presently, Telangana has got the highest installed solar capacity of 3220 MW and stands number one in the county.
On this occasion, CMD said that discharging the assigned duties by extending the value added services to the electricity consumers is also a way to express our love & solidarity to the country and appealed to all employees to rededicate for the betterment of power sector by following strict discipline which shall take the sector to new heights with ultimate consumer satisfaction as the goal. JMD/TSTransco C.Srinivasa Rao, Directors of TSTRANSCO G.Narsing Rao, T.Jagath Reddy, J.Surya Prakash, Directors of TSGENCO M. Sachidanandam, Ch. Venkata Rajam, S. Ashok Kumar & Lalith Kumar has participated in the Dr. Babu Jagjivan Ram Birth Anniversary Celebrations.
