Sangareddy: The load-shedding schedule currently followed by APTransco will continue for two more months as Medak is still drawing excess of its allocated quota. Data available with the Transco here indicates shortage of a million units per day despite the end of agriculture and academic season. The present demand for power is 12.47 million units per day and the allocated quota is only 11.35 MU.

Speaking to The Hindu , Superintending Engineer of Transco Ashok Reddy said that even though the demand and supply situation was not as precarious as it was few days ago, the power cut of four hours every day would continue till June. Similarly, the two-hour power cut for industries and eight hours for farm sector would also continue till the beginning of monsoon and improvement in generation. Transco estimates that demand for power for irrigation of paddy will end by mid-April and the sugarcane waiting for crushing may require irrigation for at least a month, indicating persistent demand for power in Zaheerabad, Kondapur, and Medak mandals.

Pilot project

In order to improve its bill collection, Transco has launched a pilot project in Sangareddy division with the help of portable computerised collection machines. Equipped with five such machines, payments are collected at the doorsteps of consumers. Mr. Ashok Reddy said that the APTransco has decided to try the machines in the rural areas also. It also fixed 1,72,593 capacitors to agricultural pumpsets.

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