Hyderabad, Oct 10 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today asked TRANSCO to take into account extensive cultivation taken up by the farmers in all the districts again due to the availability of ground water.Dr Rosaiah cleared the proposal of power utilities to provide 1.5 lakh new power connections for agriculture motor pump sets which will provide benefit of free power supply during 2010-11. With today's decision of the Chief Minister, the long pending desire of farming community has been fulfilled. The Chief Minister said a Comprehensive Action Plan to ensure quality power supply to all sectors including agriculture and industries was almost ready. Earlier, the Chief Minister wanted the Power Utility in the State to prepare a concrete action plan for reliable and quality power supply to various sectors since the generation had vastly improved due to extremely good inflows into all the reservoirs in the state.The Chief Minister had a brief meeting over the issues of power supply with Chief Secretary S V Prasad, Principal Secretary to CM C V S K Sarma, Principal Secretary, Energy, Suthirtha Bhattacharya, CMD, AP Transco, Ajay Jain and other officials viz Sri Umesh Sharaaf, JMD, Sri K Ranganatham, Addl JMD, APTRANSCO. During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed the APTRANSCO/ DISCOMs to provide all these new power connections to farmers on war footing before March, 2011.
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