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Transco draws up action plan for rabi

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Nov. 26. AP TRANSCO has drawn up an action plan to augment its supply by an additional 4280 million units (MUS) to protect the crop in the coming rabi season.

While 537 MUs would be overdrawn from the central generating stations, the remaining 3,743 MUs would be supplied through power purchases from the rest of the country to compensate the shortfall in hydel generation. This would involve a financial burden of Rs. 885 crore, a TRANSCO press release said.

The plan was discussed by the TRANSCO Chairperson and Managing Director, Rachel Chatterjee, with the authorities of DISCOMS and district-level officers of power sector at a video conference on Tuesday evening. Ms. Chatterjee emphasised that the plan would be implemented to the satisfaction of the 22.5 lakh agricultural consumers in the State.

She said special teams would be constituted to monitor the supply position and ensure that the schedule fixed for the agricultural sector was maintained. Sub-station and mandal-wise meetings with the agricultural consumers would be conducted to inform the consumers about the supply position.

Ms. Chatterjee highlighted that the hydel generation this year is expected to be less by 323 MUs as compared to last year. Due to failure of monsoon in the catchment, the Srisailam reservoir received the least inflows ever. The actual inflows from April to October this year was only 108 tmcft (15 per cent) as against an anticipated 706 tmcft and the generation during the period was 1,153 MUs against a projection of 3,684 MUs as per tariff order. Thus, there was a shortfall of 2,531 MUs (69 per cent).

She insisted on completion of harvest of crops by March so that the farmers were not put to any loss in the event of any unforeseen problems in power supply.

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