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It's Government's own making: TDP

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HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam party on Wednesday traced the present power crisis to the Government's plan to sell power to other states like it did last year.

Addressing a press conference, TDP leaders -- K. Vidyadhara Rao, K. Subbarayudu and R. Seetharama Rao -- said the Government, instead of anticipating and making arrangements for meeting the demand, concentrated on selling power, encouraged by deals it struck last year by selling 500 MWs.

But the Government dropped the idea after experts pointed to the inadequacies in the existing transmission lines, they said and alleged that the Government was paying the price for committing a series of "blunders". Instead of generating power when the reservoirs were full, it allowed the water to flow waste into the sea. It started the hydel generation belatedly.

Sources not tapped

Then thanks to disputes over fixing of rates, the Government could not tap 100 MW generated from biomass and 300 MW from windmills. Mr. Subbarayudu said the annual additional of power generation never exceeded 100 MW whenever Congress ruled the State. In contrast, during the Telugu Desam rule, over 500 MW was added every year.

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