Hyderabad, Apr 20 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today directed the Energy Department and Power Utilities to immediately reduce the power cut for small and medium scale industries, including rice mills, keeping in view the marginal reduction in power demand in agriculture sector.
While reviewing the power supply position, in particular the gap between demand and supply with officials concerned, the Chief Minister emphasised the need to prevent hardships for the lakhs of industrial labour, particularly in small and medium scale industries.Recently as per the direction of the Chief Minister, the power utilities had reduced the power cuts from two to one-and-a half days to facilitate the industries.Mr Rosaiah had ordered further reduction of power cut from the present one-and-a half days to small and medium scale industries.Principal Secretary, Energy Department, Suthirtha Bhattacharya assured the Chief Minister that the direction would be implemented from today itself.The officials informed the Chief Minister that as far as Hyderabad Metropolitan city was concerned, the present peak demand of Greater Hyderabad was about 1,500 MW. As per the preliminary estimates, the planned demand of 5,000 MW upto 2019-20 in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority area includes industries loads projected by the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation for their industrial clusters at Hardware park, Mamidipally and IT Special Economic Zones at Manikonda and Rayadurg.The Chief Minister directed the Energy department and AP Power Utilities to come out with future demand for power well in advance even for industrial sector.He also reviewed power supply position for the domestic sector, reiterated that special efforts should continue to ensure that there were no interruptions, whatsoever, from 1800 hours to 0600 hours for domestic category consumers so as to help the students who were still writing examinations.
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