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Farmers, domestic power users facing undeclared power cuts Minister claims 7-hour supply being ensured to farm sector HYDERABAD: The Congress' election promise of providing nine-hour power supply to farm sector rocked the Assembly on Saturday with TDP and CPI (M) members staging a walk out in protest against the government's failure to specify a timeframe for implementing its assurance. Speaking on the issue of power shortage during the Question Hour, they alleged that farmers and as well as domestic power users in rural areas were suffering on account of the undeclared power cuts. The government failed to protect the State's interest by allowing private power producers to sell power outside in spite of doling out concessions, including land, to them. Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who was replying on behalf of the Chief Minister, said the government had initiated work at an estimated cost of Rs. 14,000 crore for improving transmission and distribution systems. Anticipating shortages in summer, the power utilities placed orders for 1,800 MW from the southern grid well in advance. Arrangements were being made to generate another 500 MW using re-gasified liquefied natural gas. G. Muddukrishnama Naidu (TDP) said vast tracts of land was doled out for setting up power plants, but the government did not insist on the producers to fulfil the State's requirement first. As a result, Reliance was transporting gas from the K-G basin to Gujarat without providing the mandated supply to the State. Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta) wanted the government to clarify whether there were plans to separate feeders for supply to domestic and agriculture sectors on the lines of Gujarat. J. Ranga Reddy CPI (M) lamented that agency areas and Dalit hamlets were suffering because of the indiscriminate power cuts resorted to by the utilities. Refuting the charges, the Minister asserted that power cuts were not announced for any sector and the government was providing the assured seven-hour supply to farm sector. The Opposition should come up with specific instances of undeclared power cuts so that the department could rectify the systemic defects, he said.
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